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Department of Transportation declares regional emergency following BP refinery fire in Indiana
Department of Transportation declares regional emergency following BP refinery fire in Indiana Kirklareli / Turkey – Aug, 30, 2021: Lighted Sign Board with Large British Petroleum, BP Logo Placed on a poll in the highway gas station. A Department of Transportation agency declared a regional energy emergency for four Midwestern states on Saturday after a fire at […]
China’s Water Crisis Could Trigger Global Catastrophe
China’s Water Crisis Could Trigger Global Catastrophe China’s water crisis is nothing new, but it’s gotten worse – and is now on the ‘brink of catastrophe‘ and could trigger a global catastrophe, according to Foreign Affairs. Dried-up riverbed of Jialing river, a Yangtze tributary, China, August 2022 Thomas Peter / Reuters Given the country’s overriding importance to the […]
Water Worries and Drought Tolerant Plants
Image by author Water Worries and Drought Tolerant Plants A Summer Update from Shipka This summer has been incredibly hot and dry, and even some of the older and more established trees have looked under strain. With increasing periods of hot and dry weather and pressure on both the mains water supply and our perennial […]
European Corn Yields Expected To Plunge Amid Worst Drought In 500 Years
European Corn Yields Expected To Plunge Amid Worst Drought In 500 Years Besides the news of record high electricity prices, a troubling new crop failure report about Europe’s upcoming harvest was published Monday. The bloc’s Monitoring Agricultural Resources forecasted corn yields could drop by nearly a fifth due to a devastating drought, according to Bloomberg. Before […]
Our Capitalist Civilization’s Last Shot
Our Capitalist Civilization’s Last Shot …or how proposed solutions only deepen the problem What hole…? Bah, gotta keep on diggin’… Image credit: Dominik Vanyi via Unsplash For those of my readers who follow this blog for a while now it has probably become pretty much clear that this global capitalist high-tech industrial civilization is slowly over. […]
Hitler’s Scuttled Black Sea Fleet, Centuries-Old ‘Hunger Stones’ Emerge From Dry Riverbeds In Drought-Stricken Europe
Hitler’s Scuttled Black Sea Fleet, Centuries-Old ‘Hunger Stones’ Emerge From Dry Riverbeds In Drought-Stricken Europe Extreme droughts across Europe are revealing thousands of years of lost history. In some regions, centuries-old warning messages etched into boulders have been exposed. As StrangeSounds.org reports, these rocks – known as “Hungersteine” or “Hunger Stones” One stone, embedded in the Elbe […]
Carbon-Tinted Glasses
Carbon-Tinted Glasses Most of us have heard the phrase rose-tinted glasses, meaning a tendency to view the world from an optimistic, rosy, point of view. As we also know, when we look at things through only one perspective, we can gain an unrealistic view of reality. There is nothing wrong with being optimistic, but if that blinkers us […]
Outside the Safe Operating Space of a New Planetary Boundary for Per- and Polyfluoroalkyl Substances (PFAS)
Outside the Safe Operating Space of a New Planetary Boundary for Per- and Polyfluoroalkyl Substances (PFAS) Abstract It is hypothesized that environmental contamination by per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) defines a separate planetary boundary and that this boundary has been exceeded. This hypothesis is tested by comparing the levels of four selected perfluoroalkyl acids (PFAAs) […]
Taming The Greedocracy
Taming The Greedocracy American elites want magical technological fixes to climate change because they refuse to confront the truth that seriously addressing the problem would require limits to their own power and luxury. Few of us want to face the climate mess. The numbers are scary and confusing, and the facts have never been reported […]
Europe’s Nuclear & Hydropower Falter With Droughts
Europe’s Nuclear & Hydropower Falter With Droughts As Europe looks to secure alternative energy sources to Russian gas in light of the war in Ukraine, Statista’s Anna Fleck warns, a new threat to energy security is stirring, this time from droughts. The droughts hitting Europe are impacting everything from food to transportation to the environment. In Italy, the River Po […]
“Worst I’ve Ever Seen”: Cotton Prices Soar After Historic USDA Cut Amid Megadrought
“Worst I’ve Ever Seen”: Cotton Prices Soar After Historic USDA Cut Amid Megadrought US cotton prices continued to surge above the boom days of 2010-11 after a massive crop estimate cut by the USDA, shocking Wall Street analysts and traders, due primarily to a megadrought scorching farmland of Texas, according to Bloomberg. Futures in New York for December delivery […]
A Horrifying Drought Is Causing Widespread Crop Failures Throughout The United States And Europe
A Horrifying Drought Is Causing Widespread Crop Failures Throughout The United States And Europe We really are reaching a major crisis point. Thanks to soaring fertilizer prices, insane weather patterns and the war in Ukraine, global food supplies have been getting tighter and tighter. So we really needed a banner year for agricultural production in both […]
It’s Time to Wake Up – The Currently Known Global Mineral Reserves Will Not Be Sufficient to Supply Enough Metals to Manufacture the Planned Non-fossil Fuel Industrial Systems
It’s Time to Wake Up – The Currently Known Global Mineral Reserves Will Not Be Sufficient to Supply Enough Metals to Manufacture the Planned Non-fossil Fuel Industrial Systems The research report made by Associate Research Professor Simon Michaux from Geological Survey of Finland GTK shows that if we want to transition away from fossil fuels, […]
“Nothing Left In Pipes”: French Towns Rely on Water Truck Deliveries For Survival
“Nothing Left In Pipes”: French Towns Rely on Water Truck Deliveries For Survival Severe drought conditions affect about 60% of the EU, and in France, dozens of municipalities have run out of water and relied on a fleet of trucks hauling fresh water for survival. At least 100 towns and villages have run out of […]
