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COP24: climate protesters must get radical and challenge economic growth
COP24: climate protesters must get radical and challenge economic growth What do we want … when do we want it? Now. Etienne Laurent/EPA At the COP24 conference in Poland, countries are aiming to finalise the implementation plan for the 2015 Paris Agreement. The task has extra gravity in the wake of the recent IPCC report declaring […]
Warnings of Doom, Amid a Smokescreen of Denial and Distraction
Warnings of Doom, Amid a Smokescreen of Denial and Distraction Photo Source reurinkjan | CC BY 2.0 The Trump administration predictably tried to bury the dire warnings contained in the fourth National Climate Assessment by releasing it the day after Thanksgiving, when many people would be distracted by the mass consumption frenzy known as Black Friday. […]
Human and Planetary Health [Part II: Going Upstream]
Human and Planetary Health [Part II: Going Upstream] Transcript of Daniel Wahl’s ‘Findhorn Talk’ on Human and Planetary Health: Ecosystems Restoration at the dawn of the Century of Regeneration; October 13th, 2018 […Part I] We need to go upstream and look at this ‘crisis of perception’. We need to start rethinking the story of who we […]
Earth Over the Brink
Earth Over the Brink Glacier National Park is drip drip dripping into a puddle. People and companies and governments are cutting down trees to burn them to save the planet from global warming, mixing the sacrificial trees with oh-so-clean coal, and in Detroit with tires, and in North Carolina with chicken shit. Others are hacking […]
Humanure Part 2: Dealing With It
HUMANURE PART 2: DEALING WITH IT In part 1(1) of this article I explored a little into why humanure is beneficial to the planet, including the need to replenish our aquifers and for people to have access to safe drinking water, the high phosphorous content of human poo compared to the finite and dwindling supply […]
Fact-checking the second volume of the U.S. National Climate Assessment
Fact-checking the second volume of the U.S. National Climate Assessment This recently-issued study (the “Assessment”) was seized on by the media as proof of the massive damage the US will suffer if nothing is done about climate change. The Assessment’s conclusions are based largely on speculative model projections that aren’t amenable to checking, but it […]
COP24: Climate Science Denial, Disinformation and Fake News at the UN Climate Talks
COP24: Climate Science Denial, Disinformation and Fake News at the UN Climate Talks In an age of “fake news” and disinformation, in which climate science deniers have been elected to the head of some of the world’s largest governments, the UN climate talks continue to act as a stage for those who wish to cast […]
“Collapse Of Civilisation Is On The Horizon” – Attenborough Warns World Leaders
“Collapse Of Civilisation Is On The Horizon” – Attenborough Warns World Leaders (Editors note: The world faces some very serious ecological challenges due to the pollution, destruction and over consumption of our natural resources. What we find quite bizarre is the complete cognitive dissonance between the increasingly alarming warnings of absolute environmental Armageddon and the […]
Agrarian Crisis: Father of Green Revolution in India Rejects GM Crops as Farmers Demand Justice in Delhi
Agrarian Crisis: Father of Green Revolution in India Rejects GM Crops as Farmers Demand Justice in Delhi Genetically modified (GM) cotton in India is a failure. India should reject GM mustard. And like the Green Revolution, GM agriculture poses risks and is unsustainable. Regulatory bodies are dogged by incompetency and conflicts of interest. GM crops […]
“How to Wreck the Environment” — MacDonald’s Blueprint for Modern Geophysical Warfare
“How to Wreck the Environment” — MacDonald’s Blueprint for Modern Geophysical Warfare Geophysical warfare is a vast subject with historical examples going back into ancient Human history. Today it appears to be the main thrust of all the most cutting-edge military technologies. Even though the militaries of today are constantly engaging in it AND it […]
Clash between Catastrophe and Uniformity – The Global Warming Conspiracy
Clash between Catastrophe and Uniformity – The Global Warming Conspiracy Woolly Rhinoceros Climate Change has existed throughout the history of our planet. When a Wool;y Rino was discovered frozen in Siberia intact back in 1774, that is the event that shook the scientific community. I have called this the Clash between Catastrophe and Uniformity which has […]
Climate Jobs for All
Climate Jobs for All Building Block for the Green New Deal It was an iconic moment: Young people occupy Rep. Nancy Pelosi’s office demanding a Green New Deal to put millions of people to work making a climate-safe economy — when suddenly newly-elected Congressional representative and overnight media star Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez joins them with a resolutionin […]
Britain’s Excess Winter Deaths Soar To Highest In Over 40 Years
Britain’s Excess Winter Deaths Soar To Highest In Over 40 Years Winter is always a period of increased work for health services, with statistics every year proving this in the most blunt of fashions. Excess winter death figures represent the difference in the number of people dying during the winter months compared the rest of […]
Scientists: The Globe’s Food Supply System Is Broken
Scientists: The Globe’s Food Supply System Is Broken The world’s science academics are saying that the global food supply system is completely broken. They say that in order to avoid a “climate catastrophe” the global population should overhaul the farming system and eat less meat. Billions of people worldwide are either underfed or overweight. The current […]
