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First Look At Tornado Damage In New Orleans; 1000s Without Power
First Look At Tornado Damage In New Orleans; 1000s Without Power As the sun comes up Wednesday morning in New Orleans, many folks are waking up to vast amounts of destruction after a tornado touched down on Tuesday night. Local news WDSU reports a tornado ripped through parts of St. Bernard Parish, which borders New Orleans to […]
Severe Drought And “Dust Bowl Conditions” Threaten To Create A Disastrous Winter Wheat Harvest In The U.S.
Severe Drought And “Dust Bowl Conditions” Threaten To Create A Disastrous Winter Wheat Harvest In The U.S. Food prices in the U.S. have already been soaring, and now we are on track for an absolutely horrible winter wheat harvest. Of course this comes at a time when the war on the other side of the […]
NOAA Warns US Megadrought Will Persist; May Impact Food Supply Chains
NOAA Warns US Megadrought Will Persist; May Impact Food Supply Chains Abnormally dry to exceptional drought conditions are expected to persist across 60% of the continental U.S. as spring in the Northern Hemisphere begins. Forecasters expect little to no rain for certain parts of the western U.S. through June. From April to June, above-average temperatures […]
Argentina Halts Soy Exports As Food Protectionism Soars
Argentina Halts Soy Exports As Food Protectionism Soars Russia’s invasion of Ukraine disrupted the global food supply chain as the prospect for dwindling stockpiles catapulted food prices to record highs. Governments worldwide are beginning to enforce protectionist measures to safeguard domestic food supplies. According to a memo signed by Javier Preciado Patino, the secretary for agriculture markets, Argentina made moves […]
The Techno-Fix Won’t Save Us
The Techno-Fix Won’t Save Us Editor’s Note: Unquestioned beliefs are the real authorities of any culture, and one of the central authorities in the dominant, globalizing culture is that technological progress is an unmitigated good. We call this “the lie of the techno-fix.” The lie of the techno-fix is extremely convincing, with good reason. The […]
A Bomb Cyclone Could Wallop Northeast With Heavy Snow
A Bomb Cyclone Could Wallop Northeast With Heavy Snow Despite the unseasonably warm temperatures in the eastern US earlier this week, winter isn’t over with eleven days left in the season. AccuWeather forecasters warn a potential ‘bomb cyclone’ could unleash accumulating snowfall from the central Appalachians to the interior Northeast on Friday through Saturday. “Confidence is growing for a significant storm that […]
Food Crisis About To Get Worse After China Says Winter Wheat Condition Could Be Worst In History
Food Crisis About To Get Worse After China Says Winter Wheat Condition Could Be Worst In History The condition of China’s winter wheat crop could be the “worst in history,” the agriculture minister said on Saturday according to Reuters, raising concerns about grain supplies in the world’s biggest wheat consumer. Speaking to reporters on the sidelines […]
Putin’s energy shock is becoming a world food crisis. Brace for rationing.
Putin’s energy shock is becoming a world food crisis. Brace for rationing. The world was facing a grain supply crunch even before Putin’s invasion of Ukraine. The United Nations food price index was already higher in real terms than at the height of the global hunger crisis a decade ago, when Tunisian bread protests set […]
Tens of Thousands of Australians Evacuated, Hundreds Missing as ‘Unprecedented’ Flooding Hits East Coast
Flooding occurs in the town of Lismore, northeastern New South Wales, Australia, on Feb. 28, 2022. (AAP Image/Jason O’Brien) Tens of Thousands of Australians Evacuated, Hundreds Missing as ‘Unprecedented’ Flooding Hits East Coast New South Wales (NSW) residents are bracing for unprecedented floods across the east coast, with thousands of residents under evacuation orders and […]
Carbon Neutral Myth: Why the Green Tech Revolution Will Not Solve Climate Change
Carbon Neutral Myth: Why the Green Tech Revolution Will Not Solve Climate Change
Bumblebee Has Officially Been Added To The Ever-Growing List Of Endangered Species
Bumblebee Has Officially Been Added To The Ever-Growing List Of Endangered Species The bumblebee has been officially added to the list of endangered species along with the gray wolf, grizzly bear, the northern spotted owl, and about 700 other extinct animal species. According to National Geographic: The rusty-patched bumblebee (Bombus affinis), once a common sight, […]
Conflict Between Nuclear-Powered Nations: Chernobyl Is Now a War Zone
Chernobyl nuclear power plant a few weeks after the disaster. Chernobyl, Ukraine, USSR, May 1986. (Photo: Igor Kostin/Laski Diffusion/Getty Images) Conflict Between Nuclear-Powered Nations: Chernobyl Is Now a War Zone The next Chernobyl scale nuclear disaster could happen in Chernobyl as the Ukraine conflict intensifies. The invasion of Ukraine by Russia poses several nuclear threats, including […]
Has the World Gone Mad?
Has the World Gone Mad? Understanding the crisis in Ukraine from a peak resource perspective No, this war is not (just) about getting Ukraine’s resources. Other political ambitions aside, this one is more about the rest of Europe loosing its energy carriers, together with its political power — and stability. It is no wonder that […]
Imperialism in bright green
Imperialism in bright green The human ability to disconnect from and deny geopolitical reality lies at the heart of the “green” net-zero project. Most obviously, those – like the current UK Prime Minister – who claim victories along the road to the Nirvana of net-zero must maintain blindness to the way in which the UK […]
