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Fight Climate Change in Your Own Garden
Fight Climate Change in Your Own Garden Your backyard could be the next front in the war against global warming. During World War I, Americans were encouraged to do their part in the war effort by planting, fertilizing, harvesting, and storing their own fruits and vegetables. The food would go to allies in Europe, where there […]
The Ghosts of Past Political Failures Haunt Environmental Challenges
The Ghosts of Past Political Failures Haunt Environmental Challenges We will not solve climate change and other pressing global threats until we admit, and learn from, the repeated failures of past proclamations and promises. The general public, the American news magazine proclaims in its cover story, ‘The ravaged environment’, ‘has been seized with such anger […]
How the light gets in
How the light gets in The science behind growth scepticism The Entropy Law still matters. CUSP director Tim Jackson responds to Michael Liebreich’s essay on the ‘The secret of eternal growth’. CC.0 :: ipicgr / pixabay.com It’s probably fitting that Michael Liebreich’s The Secret of Eternal Growth was published so close to Halloween. It’s so […]
Climate and the Infernal Blue Wave: Straight Talk About Saving Humanity
Climate and the Infernal Blue Wave: Straight Talk About Saving Humanity Photo Source Ninara | CC BY 2.0 Let me tell you about why I woke up crying today. It has to do with just how close we are to full-blown climate disaster. I was thinking about children who are already experiencing the horrible consequences […]
We Are Witnessing The Most Destructive Fire In The History Of California, And “Devil Winds” Threaten To Make Things Even Worse
We Are Witnessing The Most Destructive Fire In The History Of California, And “Devil Winds” Threaten To Make Things Even Worse California has been absolutely devastated by horrific wildfires in recent years, but the state has never seen anything quite like this. At this moment, three major wildfires are raging, and the Camp Fire in […]
Quantum, Jazz and Dada – 2
Quantum, Jazz and Dada – 2 Hannah Höch Cut with the Dada Kitchen Knife through the Last Weimar Beer-Belly Cultural Epoch in Germany 1919 Ilargi: This is part 2 of Alexander Aston’s view of how upheaval and collapse can lead to new insights, new bursts of creativity, in science, religion, society and the arts. Part […]
Connected and vulnerable: Climate change, trade wars and the networked world
Connected and vulnerable: Climate change, trade wars and the networked world The increasing connectedness of the global economic system has long been touted as the path to greater prosperity and peaceful relations among nations and their peoples. There’s just one hitch: Complex systems have more points of failure and also hidden risks that only surface […]
Death Toll In CA Wildfires At 25; New “Devil Winds” Expected; Choking Air Quality; 250,000 Evacuated
Death Toll In CA Wildfires At 25; New “Devil Winds” Expected; Choking Air Quality; 250,000 Evacuated The death toll from California’s multiple wildfires has risen to 25, after 14 more bodies were discovered in or near the Northern California town of Paradise, bringing the number of confirmed dead in the so-called Camp Fire to 23. […]
Malibu Evacuated As “Apocalyptic” Fire Rages; 75,000 Told To Flee Ventura County
Malibu Evacuated As “Apocalyptic” Fire Rages; 75,000 Told To Flee Ventura County The upscale California town of Malibu has been ordered to evacuate after a raging wildfire jumped the 101 freeway at approximately 5 a.m. and barreled towards the seaside community amid high winds. MANDATORY evacuation is in effect for the entire area south of the 101 […]
Paradise Lost: Aggressive “Wall Of Fire” Decimates Entire California Town, “God Help Us”
Paradise Lost: Aggressive “Wall Of Fire” Decimates Entire California Town, “God Help Us” One year after the deadliest and costliest wildfire season in California’s history, three wildfires have broken out in Northern California. On Friday, the most aggressive of the three fires destroyed most of the town of Paradise, a community with 27,000 residents, forcing […]
Global Warming Agenda to Create Authoritarian Government
Global Warming Agenda to Create Authoritarian Government Back in 1996, the former Soviet Union President Mikhail Gorbachev expressed the real truth behind the Global Warming agenda. He said that using climate alarmism could advance the socialist Marxist objectives to restore the power of government. He said: “The threat of environmental crisis will be the international disaster key to unlock […]
The SDGs: Transforming our World or Business as Usual?
The SDGs: Transforming our World or Business as Usual? Compared to their predecessors, the Millennium Development Goals, the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) are a step in the right direction: With their global validity, they acknowledge that change not only needs to happen in poor countries, but in rich countries too, see for example Goals 11-15 […]
My IPCC take-away: Imagine. Take Action. Repeat.
My IPCC take-away: Imagine. Take Action. Repeat. For those who care about the world and the people and creatures we share it with, the last 6 weeks has offered a barrage of dire news. The new IPCC report called for “rapid, far-reaching and unprecedented changes in all aspects of society”. We learnt that since the […]
The Colonial Logic of Geoengineering’s “Last Resort”
The Colonial Logic of Geoengineering’s “Last Resort” As panic starts to set in about what little time we have to avert catastrophic climate change, elites have begun in earnest to drum up support for geoengineering fixes – including the fix of injecting sulfate aerosols into the stratosphere. The basic idea behind this relatively cheap, “cost […]
Fracking in the UK
Fracking in the UK Burning fossil fuels is a major cause of greenhouse gas emissions (GGE), and, greenhouse gas emissions (water vapor (H2O), carbon dioxide (CO2), methane (CH4), nitrous oxide (N2O)) are the principle cause of man-made climate change. Given this fact, governments throughout the world should be moving away from fossil fuels and investing […]
