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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 […]
Dennis Meadows on the 50th anniversary of the publication of The Limits to Growth
Dennis Meadows on the 50th anniversary of the publication of The Limits to Growth Only rarely does a book truly change the world. In the nineteenth century, such a book was Charles Darwin’s On the Origin of Species. For the twentieth century, it was The Limits to Growth. Not only did this best-selling 1972 publication help spur the environmental […]
Oilfield Approval Off Newfoundland Coast Would Undercut Climate Commitments, Harm Biodiversity, Experts Warn
Oilfield Approval Off Newfoundland Coast Would Undercut Climate Commitments, Harm Biodiversity, Experts Warn Berardo62/flickr Anxiety is running high in Newfoundland and Labrador as the province waits on a federal decision about a proposed offshore oil project about 500 kilometres east of St. John’s. Equinor’s Bay du Nord project would open a fifth oilfield for the […]
Today’s Contemplation: Collapse Cometh XL
Today’s Contemplation: Collapse Cometh XL Tulum, Mexico (1986) Photo by author The Road Not Taken Two roads diverged in a yellow wood, And sorry I could not travel both And be one traveler, long I stood And looked down one as far as I could To where it bent in the undergrowth; Then took the […]
The Mineral Supply Crisis That’s Rarely Talked About
The Mineral Supply Crisis That’s Rarely Talked About
The Price of Green Energy
The Price of Green Energy https://youtu.be/CqSqNIsC04g
Societal Collapse Due to Climate Change and Conflict
SOCIETAL COLLAPSE DUE TO CLIMATE CHANGE AND CONFLICT An Existential Threat There is a good paper floating about the internet warning that society could collapse due to climate change-related disasters and conflict in the next 20 years or so. Not good. Furthermore, according to the authors, such a collapse has been deemed not just possible, […]
