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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 […]
Animals Dying Across Ohio State Parks After East Palestine Train Derailment
Animals Dying Across Ohio State Parks After East Palestine Train Derailment After a catastrophic train derailment in East Palestine, Ohio, early last month, President Biden, Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg, corporate media outlets, Ohio Governor Mike DeWine, Environmental Protection Agency, and some local officials have ensured air monitoring and water sample tests show everything is under control. […]
Insects are vanishing worldwide – now it’s making it harder to grow food
Insects are vanishing worldwide – now it’s making it harder to grow food Over the past 20 years a steady trickle of scientific papers has reported that there are fewer insects than there used to be. Both the combined weight (what scientists call biomass) and diversity of insect species have declined. Some studies were based […]
Professional Managers Are Driving Us Off the Cliff
Professional Managers Are Driving Us Off the Cliff “The old world is dying, and the new world struggles to be born: now is the time of monsters.” ― Antonio Gramsci We live through transitional times. Transition from an era of growth to economic contraction. From a stable climate to something utterly different and chaotic. From […]
The Crisis Report — 13
The Crisis Report — 13 Russia, Ukraine, China, Taiwan, the US , and the Fossil Fuel Elites — Understanding the Global War that’s happening right now and what it means for the Anthroposphere. Imagine this is the world. This image is a metaphor for our world. In this image the “ocean” around the island is […]
“Get The Hell Out Of There” – Ohio’s Apocalyptic Chemical Disaster Rages On
“Get The Hell Out Of There” – Ohio’s Apocalyptic Chemical Disaster Rages On Update (1300ET): During a press conference, the NTSB referenced a video from Salem, Ohio, about 20 miles from East Palestine which shows sparks and flames emitting from beneath the train. The apparent structural issue with the train was captured on a security camera […]
The Daily: 8 February 2023
The Daily: 8 February 2023 You have your way. I have my way. As for the right way, the correct way, and the only way, it does not exist. — Friedrich Nietzsche (in the Old Farmer's Almanac 2023 Planner) I do not agree with Nietzsche on many things. Big surprise there, I’m sure. So when I […]
Carbon capture is a fairytale solution to the climate crisis
Carbon capture is a fairytale solution to the climate crisis Billions of dollars for CCUS are gifts to the oil and gas industry — to keep the profits rolling in while distracting from real solutions Oil and gas companies are lobbying the federal government for billions in tax dollars to push an expensive and unproven technology […]
