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Thai Rice Crop In Crosshairs Of El Nino As Farmers Are Warned About Water Shortages
Thai Rice Crop In Crosshairs Of El Nino As Farmers Are Warned About Water Shortages A disruptive El Nino pattern might impact rice production in Thailand, the world’s second-biggest exporter of the grain that feeds half the world’s population. Bangkok Post reported farmers are being asked by the Office of the National Water Resources “to grow […]
Global Rice Shortage Looms, Set To Be The Biggest In Decades
Global Rice Shortage Looms, Set To Be The Biggest In Decades Rice is the primary food source for over half of the global population, especially in emerging markets, where it plays a crucial role in feeding people. Last year, we highlighted the potential for a severe global rice shortage. A new report reveals that rice […]
MIT Study: Nuclear Power Shutdown Could Lead To Increased Deaths
MIT Study: Nuclear Power Shutdown Could Lead To Increased Deaths A new MIT study indicates that retiring U.S. nuclear power plants could lead to an increase in burning fossil fuels to fill the energy gap, resulting in over 5,000 premature deaths due to increased air pollution. Nearly 20 percent of current electricity in the U.S. […]
The Rising Chorus of Renewable Energy Skeptics
The Rising Chorus of Renewable Energy Skeptics The green techno-dream is so vastly destructive, they say, ‘we have to come up with a different plan.’ Cobalt mining in Congo, says journalist Siddharth Kara, ‘drags humanity back to a time when the people of Africa were valued only their replacement cost.’ Photo via Harvard Kennedy School. “Sometime during […]
Community, Belonging and the Polycrisis
Community, Belonging and the Polycrisis Image: Ad Parnassum, by Paul Klee Wherever I go and ask people what is missing from their lives, the most common answer (if they are not impoverished or seriously ill) is “community.” — Charles Eisenstein ChatGPT, the A.I. robot, often gets things badly wrong It even makes wildly false statements […]
Wheat Spread Hits Record As Drought Plagues Midwest
Wheat Spread Hits Record As Drought Plagues Midwest The spread between hard-red winter wheat and soft-red winter wheat has blown out to a record high as drought threatens crop yields across the Midwest and other major farming regions. Hard-red winter wheat’s premium over soft-red winter wheat is $1.72 a bushel in Chicago on Tuesday morning, […]
‘Wind Power Fails on Every Count’: Oxford Scientist Explains the Math
‘Wind Power Fails on Every Count’: Oxford Scientist Explains the Math A wind farm outside of Palm Springs, Calif., on May 26, 2018. (John Fredricks/The Epoch Times) Wind power has been historically and scientifically unreliable, claims an Oxford University mathematician and physicist, with his calculations revealing the government to be pursuing a “bluster of windfarm […]
The Energy Transition Is a Delusion Indeed
The Energy Transition Is a Delusion Indeed The “energy transition” continues to receive thunderous applause from all the usual Beltway suspects, an exercise in groupthink fantasy amazing to behold. For those with actual lives to live and thus uninterested in silliness: The “energy transition” is a massive shift, wholly artificial and politicized, from conventional energy inexpensive (Table […]
EU Members Clash Over Nuclear Energy’s Role In Climate Policy
EU Members Clash Over Nuclear Energy’s Role In Climate Policy The EU is in the process of expanding its renewable energy targets to reduce CO2 emissions. Countries are divided over whether nuclear energy should be considered a part of renewable energy targets. France leads the campaign to recognize nuclear energy as a CO2-free contributor, while […]
How Science Caused Climate Collapse
How Science Caused Climate Collapse Editor’s note: Science, touted to be objective, is far from so. As Lewis Mumford explains and Derrick writes extensively in Myth of Human Supremacy, any tool cannot be separated from the overall social structure under which it was created and operates. Likewise, science, as a way of thought, was created […]
Coronal Hole ’30 Times Earth’s Size’ Hurls Solar Plasma Towards Earth
Coronal Hole ’30 Times Earth’s Size’ Hurls Solar Plasma Towards Earth NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory released a photo showing a massive coronal hole forming in the sun’s atmosphere, ejecting a stream of fast-moving solar winds toward Earth. “The current coronal hole, the big one right now, is about 300,000 to 400,000 kilometers across,” Alex Young, […]
‘A Little Book of Insurgent Planning’
‘A Little Book of Insurgent Planning’ As we collapse, this free online book provides examples of what action we can take collectively. Taken from academic literature, it’s about how we struggle together as the world we have depended upon contracts and decays. How will we work together as food and water systems breakdown? How can we […]
Pakistan’s Dystopian Warning to the World
Pakistan’s Dystopian Warning to the World Supporters of former Prime Minister Imran Khan at a rally in Rawalpindi in November. Photographer: Asad Zaidi/Bloomberg Pakistan has touted itself as one of the world’s cradles of civilization, flourishing for thousands of years along ancient trade routes passing through the fertile Indus Valley. Now it presents a dystopian […]
