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Net Zero by 2050? Here’s What It Takes To Get It
Net Zero by 2050? Here’s What It Takes To Get It FacebookTwitterMore52 Here is what a reasonably objective study from the Geological Survey of Finland concludes on just how much more electricity generation will be required to retire natural gas and coal… The answer: a stink load! But you need batteries to provide power when […]
The Collapse Chronicle-December 13, 2021
The Collapse Chronicle-December 13, 2021
Seeing the Big Picture: Nate Hagens
Seeing the Big Picture: Nate Hagens
An environmental sociologist explains how permaculture offers a path to climate justice
Image by Local Food Initiative, flickr. Permaculture practitioners manage their gardens or farms in ways inspired by the sustainability and resilience of healthy natural ecosystems. An environmental sociologist explains how permaculture offers a path to climate justice Big farming is both a victim of climate change and a contributor. Droughts, floods and soil degradation threaten crop yields. […]
UK | Supply Chains No Longer Fit For Purpose
UK | Supply Chains No Longer Fit For Purpose In October 2021 Sustain, the UK-based alliance working for food and farming system change, published ‘Beyond the farmgate – Unlocking the path to farmer-focused supply chains and climate-friendly, agroecological food systems’. The report explores the results of a survey of 500 farmers in England and Wales, with […]
Why is Civilization Unsustainable?
Why is Civilization Unsustainable? Top picture: Civilization; Pikeville, Kentucky Bottom picture: Nature; Birch Knob, Virginia So, what is it about civilization being unsustainable that people do not understand? I often wonder why this is and have come up with the idea that it is mostly cultural programming and indoctrination by industry that technology is good […]
The Waste
The Waste I make some broad statements about work. These are my opinions generally, but most of my opinions are based in recorded — and therefore verifiable — fact and direct experience. To say how I arrived at these statements would take up a library of books and perhaps a good deal of “walking in […]
Modern Grand Solar Minimum will lead to terrestrial cooling
Modern Grand Solar Minimum will lead to terrestrial cooling In this editorial I will demonstrate with newly discovered solar activity proxy-magnetic field that the Sun has entered into the modern Grand Solar Minimum (2020–2053) that will lead to a significant reduction of solar magnetic field and activity like during Maunder minimum leading to noticeable reduction […]
Now the Pentagon tells Bush: climate change will destroy us
Now the Pentagon tells Bush: climate change will destroy us · Secret report warns of rioting and nuclear war · Britain will be ‘Siberian’ in less than 20 years · Threat to the world is greater than terrorism Pentagon outside Washington, DC (Photo by SAUL LOEB / AFP) Photograph: Saul Loeb/AFP/Getty Images Climate change over the next […]
Oil Giants admit to a 5C Temperature Increase being baked in but no one else will!
Oil Giants admit to a 5C Temperature Increase being baked in but no one else will! “Oil giants Shell and BP are planning for global temperatures to rise as much as 5°C by the middle of the century. The level is more than double the upper limit committed to by most countries in the world under the Paris […]
Derrick Jensen: Endgame Part 1
Derrick Jensen: Endgame Part 1
Farmers turning to alternative growing methods in wake of sky-high fertiliser price
Farmers turning to alternative growing methods in wake of sky-high fertiliser price Fertiliser prices have risen sharply this year.(Trevor De Landgrafft) In 12 months the price of commonly used fertilisers essential for Australia’s $43 billion cropping industries has increased by as much as 230 per cent. Key points: Fertiliser prices have risen an extraordinary amount over the past year […]
Updated Extinction Assessment Drives Fresh Call to ‘Save Life on Earth’
An Africocypha varicolor blue, categorized as endangered on the ‘Red List.’ (Photo: André Günther) Updated Extinction Assessment Drives Fresh Call to ‘Save Life on Earth’ “Every new look at extinction shows that we’re running out of time to save wildlife and ultimately ourselves.” The Biden administration was told Thursday it must act urgently to address the […]
“If We Lose the Arctic We Lose the Globe” We’ve Lost the Arctic
“If We Lose the Arctic We Lose the Globe” We’ve Lost the Arctic “Changes will happen decades earlier than previously thought.” Now where have we heard that before? “More rain than snow will fall in the Arctic and this transition will occur decades earlier than previously predicted, a new study led by the University of Manitoba […]
Natural Resources Necessary to Feed World Are at a ‘Breaking Point,’ Warns FAO
Natural Resources Necessary to Feed World Are at a ‘Breaking Point,’ Warns FAO “Taking care of land, water, and particularly the long-term health of soils is fundamental to accessing food in an ever-demanding food chain.” A United Nations report released Thursday detailing humanity’s degradation of natural resources warns swift and sweeping reforms are needed to keep […]
