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Germany’s Uniper Warns Of Possible “Irregular Operation” At Major Power Plant As Rhine River Runs Dry
Germany’s Uniper Warns Of Possible “Irregular Operation” At Major Power Plant As Rhine River Runs Dry Germany’s Uniper SE, the country’s largest utility (recently bailed out by state-owned lender KfW), warned Thursday that plunging water levels on the Rhine River have reduced barge shipments of coal to a key power plant, exacerbating an energy crunch as power […]
Bill Gates’ dumbest idea ever
Bill Gates’ dumbest idea ever A legendary nuclear whistleblower’s open letter to Bill Gates over his new love of nuclear power. Dear Mr. Gates, I am writing this letter to you because I believe you have crossed the line by leveraging your fortune to maneuver state governments and, indeed, the U.S. Government to siphon precious […]
Is a partial collapse possible? Part 1
Is a partial collapse possible? Part 1 Image credit: Himesh Kumar Behera via Unsplash Can the East survive the fall (or rather the collective suicide) of the West? Can the center of global power be transferred from the falling Western Empire to its Eastern counterparts? And ultimately: will this shift contribute to or, instead, reverse the […]
Chronicling Ecosystem Collapse from the Tropics to the Antarctic
Chronicling Ecosystem Collapse from the Tropics to the Antarctic “We assessed evidence of collapse in 19 ecosystems (both terrestrial and marine) along a 58° latitudinal gradient for which major signals of change have been reported.” Combating ecosystem collapse from the tropics to the Antarctic A better title would have been “We aren’t Combatting Ecosystem Collapse from the Tropics […]
Water Woes
Water Woes If you live in a place where water falls from the sky during summer this blog is perhaps not so helpful. However, gardeners in much of the western United States will suffer this summer from hot days (sometimes record breaking) and will need to irrigate their gardens and trees in order for them […]
*Summertime, and the livin’ is easy…
*Summertime, and the livin’ is easy… If you listen closely you can hear the beasties in your garden just a-singin’ that tune. And who can blame them? Warm temperatures and lush green gardens? They enjoy them as much as we do. But sometimes they can be enjoying our landscape a little too much. So now […]
No Farmers, No Food, No Life
No Farmers, No Food, No Life The world is now facing a man-made food catastrophe. It is reaching crisis levels. Current policies in many parts of the world place a priority on climate change for realizing a green new deal. Meanwhile, such policies will contribute to children dying from severe malnutrition due to broken food […]
It’s Earth Overshoot Day, and Future Generations Are Calling | Opinion
It’s Earth Overshoot Day, and Future Generations Are Calling | Opinion July 28 is Earth Overshoot Day. As of that day, for the rest of 2022, human economic activity will be using the planet’s resources beyond its capacity to renew them. Humans now consume things like wood, water, and soil at nearly twice the rate […]
UN, World Economic Forum Behind Global ‘War on Farmers’: Experts
A sign of the World Economic Forum (WEF) is seen at the Congress centre during its annual meeting in Davos on May 23, 2022. (Fabrice Coffrini/AFP via Getty Images) US NEWS UN, World Economic Forum Behind Global ‘War on Farmers’: Experts They say ‘Agenda 2030’ development goals at root of sustainability policies that could lead […]
BASF Prepares To Slash Ammonia Production In Germany Amid Worsening NatGas Crunch
BASF Prepares To Slash Ammonia Production In Germany Amid Worsening NatGas Crunch German chemicals company BASF SE paid an extra 800 million euros ($809.5 million) to keep its plants operating in the second quarter compared with a year earlier amid skyrocketing natural gas prices. The impact of high energy prices has forced the company to […]
Category 4 hurricane? Prepare for 21 days without power, Entergy says
Category 4 hurricane? Prepare for 21 days without power, Entergy says Even a Category 1 hurricane might bring 7 days without power, utility says. The electricity has been off for 11 days in Bridge City, La. Thursday, Sept. 9, 2021, in the aftermath of Hurricane Ida. (Staff photo by David Grunfeld, NOLA.com | The Times-Picayune | The […]
What Does An Ecological Civilization Look Like?
ILLUSTRATIONS BY DELPHINE LEE/YES! MAGAZINE What Does An Ecological Civilization Look Like? A society based on natural ecology might seem like a far-off utopia—yet communities everywhere are already creating it. As a new, saner administration sets up shop in Washington, D.C., there are plenty of policy initiatives this country desperately needs. Beyond a national plan for […]
The Dawn of the Apocalypse
The Dawn of the Apocalypse We were warned for decades about the death march we are on because of global warming. And yet, the global ruling class continues to frog-march us towards extinction. Our Climate Future – by Mr. Fish Subscribe now The past week has seen record-breaking heat waves across Europe. Wildfires have ripped through Spain, Portugal […]
Carbon-Reduction Plans Rely on Tech That Doesn’t Exist
Carbon-Reduction Plans Rely on Tech That Doesn’t Exist Instead of scaling up renewable energy, researchers promote unproved ideas Credit: Katie Louise Thomas At last year’s Glasgow COP26 meetings on the climate crisis, U.S. envoy and former U.S. secretary of state John Kerry stated that solutions to the climate crisis will involve “technologies that we don’t […]
The Anthropocene is a Joke
Stuart Gleave / Getty THE ANTHROPOCENE IS A JOKE On geological timescales, human civilization is an event, not an epoch. Humans are now living in a new geological epoch of our own making: the Anthropocene. Or so we’re told. Whereas some epochs in Earth history stretch more than 40 million years, this new chapter started maybe […]
