Home » Environment (Page 38)
Category Archives: Environment
Today’s Contemplation CLXXIII–Human Ecological Overshoot: What to Do?
Today’s Contemplation CLXXIII Monte Alban, Mexico (1986). Photo by author. Human Ecological Overshoot: What to Do? Today’s Contemplation is a very short comment I posted on The Honest Sorcerer’s latest piece. Yes, the grieving process must be travelled through to the end to reach ‘acceptance’ of our human ecological overshoot predicament. Some are just beginning this […]
Report: Lab Leaks Have Increased By 50% Since COVID Pandemic
Report: Lab Leaks Have Increased By 50% Since COVID Pandemic “The apparent lab leaks in the UK alone show we are all sitting on a ticking time bomb.” The Telegraph reports that it has found a FIFTY PERCENT increase in leaks and accidents at laboratories in the UK since the outbreak of COVID in 2020, warning of […]
Britain’s Net-Zero Disaster and the Wind Power Scam
Britain’s Net-Zero Disaster and the Wind Power Scam “This is not about complicated issues of cryptocurrency,” Assistant U.S. Attorney Nicolas Roos declared in the Sam Bankman-Fried trial, after accusing the defendant of building FTX on a “pyramid of deceit.” Much the same can be said about the foundations of Britain’s net-zero experiment. Energy is complicated, […]
Today’s Contemplation: Collapse Cometh CLXXII–Human Ecological Overshoot and the Noble Savage
Today’s Contemplation: Collapse Cometh CLXXII Chichen Itza, Mexico (1986). Photo by author. Human Ecological Overshoot and the Noble Savage Wanted to share yet another online discussion that arose in response to a comment link (see below) posted on my Contemplation regarding electric vehicles (see: Blog Medium) within one of the Facebook Groups I posted it to (Prepping […]
A “Textbook” Sudden Stratospheric Warming Event Appears To Be Unfolding
A “Textbook” Sudden Stratospheric Warming Event Appears To Be Unfolding Meteorologists on social media channel X are posting weather models about the increasing threat of a so-called sudden stratospheric warming (SSW) over the Arctic, which could unleash wintry weather across the eastern half of the US in the new year. “A textbook sudden stratospheric warming […]
Today’s Contemplation CLXXI–A ‘Solution’ to Our Predicaments: More Mass-Produced, Industrial Technologies.
Today’s Contemplation CLXXI Chichen Itza, Mexico (1986). Photo by author. A ‘Solution’ to Our Predicaments: More Mass-Produced, Industrial Technologies. Got into one of those social media discussions with someone yesterday morning. The post I was commenting upon is, unfortunately, no longer available and I failed to take a screenshot of it when I originally commented. However, […]
Today’s Contemplation: Collapse Cometh CLXX–To EV Or Not To EV? One Of Many Questions Regarding Our ‘Clean/Green’ Utopian Future, Part 1.
Today’s Contemplation: Collapse Cometh CLXX Pompeii, Italy (1984). Photo by author. To EV Or Not To EV? One Of Many Questions Regarding Our ‘Clean/Green’ Utopian Future, Part 1. Today’s Contemplation has been prompted by my recent thoughts regarding the debate around the uptake of electric vehicles (EVs), their place in a world experiencing the predicament of ecological […]
Today’s Contemplation: Collapse Cometh XXXVIII–The ‘Predicament’ of Ecological Overshoot
Today’s Contemplation: Collapse Cometh XXXVIII January 25, 2022 Tulum, Mexico (1986) Photo by author The ‘Predicament’ of Ecological Overshoot The following contemplation has been prompted by some commentary regarding a recent article by Megan Seibert of the Real Green New Deal Project. It pulls together a couple of threads that I’ve been discussing the past few months… […]
COP(out) is Dead
COP(out) is Dead I took a few minutes to dig into the text coming out of COP(out)28 this morning. While 70,000 delegates depart Dubai in their private jets congratulating themselves for a job well done, the rest of us are flabbergasted by the failure. Yet again, the planet has been let down. Anyone paying attention […]
Today’s Contemplation: Collapse Cometh XXXVII–Decline of ‘Rationality’
Today’s Contemplation: Collapse Cometh XXXVII January 15, 2022 Teotihuacan, Mexico (1988) Photo by author Decline of ‘Rationality’ Got involved in a discussion after an Facebook Friend (Alice Friedemann, whose work can be seen here) posted a study on the decline of ‘rationality’ over the past few decades. My initial response was as follows: My initial thought is […]
Today’s Contemplation: Collapse Cometh CLXIX–Fiat Currency Devaluation: A Ruling Elite ‘Solution’ to Growth Limits
Today’s Contemplation: Collapse Cometh CLXIX Teotihuacan, Mexico (1988). Photo by author. Fiat Currency Devaluation: A Ruling Elite ‘Solution’ to Growth Limits Today’s post is my comment on the latest Honest Sorcerer’s piece regarding the misuse of the term ‘inflation’ and how currency devaluation and the coming energy squeeze overlap. Another well-articulated summary of yet a further aspect […]
I Asked Gardeners How Climate Change Hits Them
I Asked Gardeners How Climate Change Hits Them I connected with gardeners from across North America and Europe to understand how climate change is affecting their ability to grow our most valuable resource: food. What does “climate change” actually mean at the grassroots level? When most people hear the term they think of rising seas […]
All Four “Pillars Of Civilization” Are Under Attack By An “Anti-Human Death-Cult”; Shellenberger, Carlson Unload On Global Elites
All Four “Pillars Of Civilization” Are Under Attack By An “Anti-Human Death-Cult”; Shellenberger, Carlson Unload On Global Elites As world leaders gathered over the weekend for the COP28 climate summit in Dubai, they faced an uncomfortable reality check from the conference president Sultan Al Jaber, who stated, “there is no science out there, or no scenario out […]
