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Ring Of Fire On ALERT After Philippines Earthquake: California Is WARNED
Ring Of Fire On ALERT After Philippines Earthquake: California Is WARNED After a 5.2 magnitude earthquake struck the Philippines, the Ring of Fire was put on alert. After dozens of earthquakes rocked Hawaii this month, followed by a volcanic eruption, many fear the Ring of Fire has become much more active, which has prompted scientists […]
America’s ‘Cadillac Desert’: Is there a substitute for fresh water?
America’s ‘Cadillac Desert’: Is there a substitute for fresh water? Thirty years after Marc Reisner penned Cadillac Desert: The American West and Its Disappearing Water his prophesy is being fulfilled. As the chalky rings which mark previous higher water levels around Colorado River reservoirs grow ever wider, Grist reports that major disputes are now afoot […]
Climate Crisis Clobbers Trump Denials
Climate Crisis Clobbers Trump Denials Harken! A Trump appointee agrees that climate change is not a hoax. Granted, that is unimaginable, but it is the real thing. An ongoing climate crisis in America’s Southwest brings this rare specimen into the limelight. The climate crisis star of the year is Brenda Burman, commissioner of The Bureau […]
Time To Choose
kienyke.com Time To Choose Will you be an agent of depletion or regeneration? There’s a vast revolution underway. And it’s time to pick sides. Your choice couldn’t be more critically important. Quite possibly, the entire fate of the human species hangs in the balance. It’s time to decide: Will you be an agent of depletion […]
What goes up must come down: It’s time for a carbon drawdown budget
What goes up must come down: It’s time for a carbon drawdown budget There is no carbon budget left for 1.5°C climate warming target, which means that to achieve this outcome every tonne of emissions must be matched by a tonne of drawdown of atmospheric carbon from now on. For that reason, carbon budgets and […]
Only ‘collective intelligence’ can help us stave off an uninhabitable planet
Only ‘collective intelligence’ can help us stave off an uninhabitable planet Humanity needs new tools to overcome the global crisis of collective insanity Published by INSURGE intelligence, a crowdfundedinvestigative journalism platform for people and planet. Support us to report where others fear to tread. The world faces an unprecedented convergence of crises. The ecological crisis, which […]
Modernity’s Long Twilight
Modernity’s Long Twilight Photo source wongaboo | CC BY 2.0 While Marx expected the industrial proletariat to spearhead the socialist revolution, it is now left to those who resist the burning of the last of the planet’s fossil fuel – which continues to engorge the hyper-capitalism of the early twenty-first century – to usher us […]
Humans didn’t exist the last time there was this much CO2 in the air
Humans didn’t exist the last time there was this much CO2 in the air The last time atmospheric carbon dioxide levels were this high, millions of years ago, the planet was very different. For one, humans didn’t exist. On Wednesday, scientists at the University of California in San Diego confirmedthat April’s monthly average atmospheric carbon […]
The ninety percent and the tithe
The ninety percent and the tithe I think it likely that 90% of our working time creates what we don’t need and also damages work to preserve what we do need. That is: most of our time is not only wasted but destructive. Of course, I’m speaking of the so-called First World and of the […]
George Monbiot’s Out of the Wreckage; A friendly critique
George Monbiot’s Out of the Wreckage; A friendly critique Few have made a more commendable contribution to saving the planet than George Monbiot. His recent book, Out of the Wreckage, continues the effort and puts forward many important ideas…but I believe there are problems with his diagnosis and his remedy. The book is an excellent […]
Climate Change 10-Year Check-Up
Climate Change 10-Year Check-Up Ten years ago Kevin J. Surace delivered a fascinating TED talk entitled “Worst Case Climate Change.” Based upon credits at the end of his speech, data for his talk came from the following sources: – Fred Pearce, With Speed and Violence: Why Scientists Fear – Tipping Points in Climate Change (Beacon […]
Stephen Hawking’s Last Words: We Live In ‘The Matrix’?
Stephen Hawking’s Last Words: We Live In ‘The Matrix’? Before he passed away in March, renowned physicist Stephen Hawking had published more than 230 articles on the birth of the universe, black holes and quantum mechanics. But, ten days before his death, Hawking finished his final theory on the origin of the universe – now published posthumously – and […]
“This Is As Bad As It Gets” – Magma Flowing From Hawaii’s Kilauea Forces Thousands To F
“This Is As Bad As It Gets” – Magma Flowing From Hawaii’s Kilauea Forces Thousands To Flee After first erupting on Thursday, Hawaii’s Kilauea volcano has continued to send molten magma up through the eight fissures that have now opened up in the ground in a part of Hawaii that is home to several ritzy […]
