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Museletter #305: Puerto Rico is our Future
Museletter #305: Puerto Rico is our Future Download printable PDF version here (PDF, 93KB) My hometown of Santa Rosa, California, and surrounding communities were decimated by wildfires during the week of October 9, with entire neighborhoods completely erased. If you want a sense of how bad the fires were, watch this 11-minute video clip put […]
Alberta Approves Suncor Tailings Plan Despite Reliance on ‘Unproven Technology’
Alberta Approves Suncor Tailings Plan Despite Reliance on ‘Unproven Technology’ The Alberta Energy Regulator (AER) has approved a tailings management plan from oilsands giant Suncor, despite the plan relying on “newly patented, unproven technology” that will require decades of monitoring. Wednesday’s decision came only six months after the AER rejected Suncor’s proposed plan for the same […]
Minority Communities Suffer from Storms as GOP and Trump Admin Promote Oil and Gas
Minority Communities Suffer from Storms as GOP and Trump Admin Promote Oil and Gas While victims in Texas, Florida, and Puerto Rico are still reeling from the devastation of three hurricanes worsened by a warming climate, the Trump administration and GOP senators in the Gulf continued to push fossil fuel extraction. On October 18, two senators […]
Do You Really Think Politicians Can Stop Climate Change?
Do You Really Think Politicians Can Stop Climate Change? COMMENT: Mr. Armstrong; It appears that politicians are attributing any change in the climate to human activity. They have simply either gone mad or just insane, seriously distorting everything to gain more power and taxes. Now Christine Lagarde said: “As I’ve said before if we don’t do anything […]
Global Climate Change & Its Link to Soil Organisms
GLOBAL CLIMATE CHANGE & ITS LINK TO SOIL ORGANISMS When people think of the consequences of global warming, most jump to the melting ice caps and death of beloved polar bears. We know that as our Earth undergoes climate change, it’s adversely affecting the ecological balance in complex ways. For the first time, however, a […]
California Wildfires Inflict More Devastation
California Wildfires Inflict More Devastation Among recent natural disasters striking the U.S. are devastating wildfires that torched California’s wine country, destroyed thousands of homes and killed more than 40 people, report Dennis J Bernstein and Miguel Gavilan Molina. The Tubbs neighborhood in Santa Rosa, Sonoma County, one of the hardest hit by the recent fires […]
100% renewables: ‘wishful thinking’ or an imperative goal?
100% renewables: ‘wishful thinking’ or an imperative goal? In this essay, I was provoked to respond to Stan Cox’s widely-shared article “100 Percent Wishful Thinking: The Green-Energy Cornucopia”, in which he argues that a transition to 100% renewable energy is neither technically feasible, nor desirable. It is my contention, in contrast, that a 100 percent […]
Rampant Wildfires Will Affect Our Drinking Water
Rampant Wildfires Will Affect Our Drinking Water In a world of bigger, hotter fires, it is time to think of forests as vital infrastructure, and to invest in preserving these resources for the future. If you live in the northwestern half of the continent, as I do, there has been no escaping this year’s extraordinary wildfire […]
Madagascar Hospitals On High Alert: ‘No One Is Safe’ From The Black Plague
Madagascar Hospitals On High Alert: ‘No One Is Safe’ From The Black Plague Travelers are being warned to keep their distance from areas of Madagascar affected by the bubonic plague. As the outbreak worsens, some doctors are even warning that “no one is safe” from the disease. The outbreak of the black plague in Madagascar has […]
Europe’s hurricane-fueled wildfires might become a recurring nightmare
REUTERS/Rafael Marchante WE DID START THE FIRE Europe’s hurricane-fueled wildfires might become a recurring nightmare This week, a hurricane broadsided Europe — a rare event considering most of the continent is closer to the North Pole than it is to the tropics. That would have been enough to make worldwide news, but the continent was […]
Looking for a Glass of Water and a Place to Shit
Looking for a Glass of Water and a Place to Shit Photo by woodleywonderworks | CC by 2.0 A recent Brown University Study showed that, between 2001 and 2016, the cost of wars in Afghanistan, Iraq, Syria and Pakistan has cost the US $3.6 trillion. ~ Ramzy Baroud Imagine if you will that the U.S. […]
Soil Erosion and Its Monetary Cost
SOIL EROSION AND ITS MONETARY COST The modernized food industry has pushed farming practices to the back burner in the eyes of consumers. Still, the majority of our food comes from the land. That being said, the issue of soil erosion isn’t making front pages, but amongst those that lobby around organic farming and environmental […]
Hidden Danger of Ecological Collapse
Hidden Danger of Ecological Collapse Photo by Phil Fiddyment | CC by 2.0 A recent landmark study that investigated alarming loss of insects is leaving scientists dumbfounded, deeply troubled, potentially the biggest-ever existential threat, risking ecosystem collapse too soon for comfort. In contrast to global warming, this may be much more imminently dangerous across-the-board to […]
