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Most productive NSW agricultural shire counts hundreds of millions of dollars in crop losses
Most productive NSW agricultural shire counts hundreds of millions of dollars in crop losses Crops on the verge of harvest have been wiped out.(Supplied: Rabbit Hop Films) New South Wales’s peak farming body says the damage bill for wheat losses alone in the state’s flood-hit north-west will surpass $150 million. Key points: Fourth-worst flood in […]
Orange Juice Prices Soar To Record Highs As Inventories Collapse
Orange Juice Prices Soar To Record Highs As Inventories Collapse We recently outlined “Orange Juice Prices Could “Increase Substantially” As Hurricane Pummels Florida’s Top Citrus Grow Region.” And that’s precisely what’s happening today. First, let’s begin with US stockpiles of cold-stored orange juice plunged by 43% in September from a year earlier — the lowest level since […]
The Quiet Part Out Loud
The Quiet Part Out Loud
Climate change and the threat to civilization
Climate change and the threat to civilization In a speech about climate change from April 4th of this year, UN General Secretary António Guterres lambasted “the empty pledges that put us on track to an unlivable world” and warned that “we are on a fast track to climate disaster” (1). Although stark, Guterres’ statements were […]
Will global warming drive us extinct? A review of Peter Ward’s “Under a Green Sky”
Will global warming drive us extinct? A review of Peter Ward’s “Under a Green Sky” Preface. Thank goodness for world peak oil production in 2018. And peak coal in 2013. Since oil is that master resource that makes every product and activity possible, including oil itself and coal and natural gas, peak oil means peak everything. […]
Rush to Mine Electric Vehicle Battery Elements Threatens People and Ecosystems
Rush to Mine Electric Vehicle Battery Elements Threatens People and Ecosystems A creuseur, or digger, climbs through a copper and cobalt mine in Kawama, Democratic Republic of Congo, on June 8, 2016.MICHAEL ROBINSON CHAVEZ / THE WASHINGTON POST VIA GETTY IMAGES / TRUTHOUT Much of the excitement over the Inflation Reduction Act, which became law […]
Will Any Humans Become Post-Carbon?
Will Any Humans Become Post-Carbon? Probably nobody will read this because it is far too long, far too full of horrifying details, and far too realistic for most tastes. I write it anyway, to fulfill a promise I made. Photo by Roxanne Desgagnés Back in 2007 I read the book High Noon by J. F. Rischard (also available in German). Rischard’s […]
Animal populations experience average decline of almost 70% since 1970, report reveals
Animal populations experience average decline of almost 70% since 1970, report reveals Huge scale of human-driven loss of species demands urgent action, say world’s leading scientists There was a 64% reduction of Australian sea lion pups between 1977 and 2019 due to hunting, entanglement in fishing gear or other marine debris and disease. Photograph: Brad Leue/Alamy Earth’s […]
Op-Ed: Think bigger. Switching to electric cars isn’t enough
Op-Ed: Think bigger. Switching to electric cars isn’t enough A Tesla charging station in Santa Monica. (Myung J. Chun / Los Angeles Times) It might feel like the easy solution — just replace your gas-guzzling SUV with an electric SUV, and if everyone does that, eventually we’ll solve climate change. You can see why California regulators […]
The Road to Ruin — Part 3
The Road to Ruin — Part 3 False solutions — and a way out Our leadership class displays an extraordinary amount of stupidity and ignorance when it comes to solutions regarding the dire energy crisis we face in Europe — and soon around the world. What are the pitfalls caused by this lack of imagination […]
Overpopulation and the Collapse of Civilization
Overpopulation and the Collapse of Civilization A major shared goal of the Millennium Alliance for Humanity and the Biosphere (MAHB) and Sustainability Central is reducing the odds that the “perfect storm” of environmental problems that threaten humanity will lead to a collapse of civilization. Those threats include climate disruption, loss of biodiversity (and thus ecosystem […]
Are Green Resource Wars Looming?
Are Green Resource Wars Looming? The Burden of Massive EV Batteries Will Be Borne by People and Ecosystems Much of the excitement over the Inflation Reduction Act, which became law this summer, focused on the boost it should give to the sales of electric vehicles. Sadly, though, manufacturing and driving tens of millions of individual […]
Arctic Blast To Blanket Eastern Half Of US Next Week
Arctic Blast To Blanket Eastern Half Of US Next Week A cold blast will descend on the eastern US early next week, forcing tens of millions of Americans to turn on their heaters or fire up their stoves as the cold season comes early. “It will feel more like November for many next week,” AccuWeather Senior Meteorologist […]
Planetary Gas Chamber not “Climate Change”
Planetary Gas Chamber not “Climate Change” We have been aware that burning fossil fuels would alter, destabilise and warm the atmosphere since at least 1847 and the narrative has been controlled since shortly thereafter. Had we described the phenomenon as creating what it is, a “Planetary Gas Chamber” for most, if not all complex life on the […]
