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Critical minerals problem: Supply chain issues come to the fore
Critical minerals problem: Supply chain issues come to the fore It seems that all of a sudden there is talk of mineral shortages and two metals which are thought to be plentiful in the Earth’s crust, nickel and zinc, have been added to the list of minerals now deemed critical to the United States, a list recently […]
Protesting Permaculture: the last five weeks and the last five decades
Protesting Permaculture: the last five weeks and the last five decades On Saturday 13th and 20th November, my partner Su Dennett and I joined others from central Victoria travelling by train to the “Kill the Bill”/anti-lockdown/anti-mandate protests in Melbourne. This essay documents the experience, and reflects on the relationship between permaculture and oppositional activism over […]
Today’s Contemplation: Collapse Cometh XXXIV
Today’s Contemplation: Collapse Cometh XXXIV Athens, Greece (1984) Photo by author ***** Supply chain disruptions and the product shortages that result have become a growing concern over the past couple of years and the reasons for these are as varied as the people providing the ‘analysis’. Production delays. Covid-19 pandemic. Pent-up consumer demand. Central bank […]
Seeing the Big Picture | Nate Hagens
Seeing the Big Picture | Nate Hagens Understanding the critical connections between our values, our economy and our world Welcome to the era of generalists, of the big picture thinkers who translate concepts into action. These are the people who join the dots to get a better sense of how our world fits together—and how […]
Watch: Cars carried away by floodwaters as month’s worth of rain pelts Malta
Watch: Cars carried away by floodwaters as month’s worth of rain pelts Malta People trapped in cars, homes flooded, walls collapse The scene in an Msida street on Thursday morning. Photo: Chris Sant Fournier Flash floods carried away cars, collapsed walls and trapped motorists in their submerged vehicles after a month’s worth of rain fell […]
“How dry I am “: Four types of drought and how they can affect gardeners and gardens
“How dry I am “: Four types of drought and how they can affect gardeners and gardens Linda’s post last week about “drought-resistant” plants made me think about drought and how different types of drought affect gardeners in different ways. In her article, she defined drought as “an unusual lack of rainfall”. This is one of […]
Impending Planetary Disaster Should Unite Us, Yet We Remain More Divided Than Ever
Impending Planetary Disaster Should Unite Us, Yet We Remain More Divided Than Ever Listen to a reading of this article: ❖ Charles Bukowski has a quote: “We’re all going to die, all of us, what a circus! That alone should make us love each other but it doesn’t. We are terrorized and flattened by trivialities, […]
Prepare developed democracies for long-run economic slowdowns
Prepare developed democracies for long-run economic slowdowns Developed democracies proliferated over the past two centuries during an unprecedented era of economic growth, which may be ending. Macroeconomic forecasts predict slowing growth throughout the twenty-first century for structural reasons such as ageing populations, shifts from goods to services, slowing innovation, and debt. Long-run effects of COVID-19 […]
A world without mining: a necessary goal we must dare to imagine
A world without mining: a necessary goal we must dare to imagine (Translation: Iolanda Mato.) In recent years, news keeps popping up on the decarbonization of the economy but always leaving out any questioning of the model of constant growth that currently directs the destiny of our societies. Some go even further and use the […]
365 Days of Climate Awareness 88 – Peak Oil
365 Days of Climate Awareness 88 – Peak Oil Too much demand causes oil prices to rise to an unsustainable level, leading to the oil market’s collapse. This is another topic, like eutrophication, which is not specifically part of the global warming problem, but it is of direct importance to society and to our use […]
To keep fossil carbon out of the air, just stop pulling it out of the Earth
To keep fossil carbon out of the air, just stop pulling it out of the Earth Rick Nease / The Detroit Free Press / MCT Expectations for the COP26 climate summit were always low. They had dimmed even further by the time the prominent climate activist Vanessa Nakate of Uganda spoke from the main stage […]
Bright Green Lies
Bright Green Lies
To keep fossil carbon out of the air, just stop pulling it out of the Earth
To keep fossil carbon out of the air, just stop pulling it out of the Earth Rick Nease / The Detroit Free Press / MCT Expectations for the COP26 climate summit were always low. They had dimmed even further by the time the prominent climate activist Vanessa Nakate of Uganda spoke from the main stage […]
Cop-26–Caught in a Net: Agriculture, Climate Change, and the Decarbonisation Agenda
COP26 – Caught in a Net: Agriculture, Climate Change, and the Decarbonisation Agenda
Degrowth–the promising climate change strategy no politician wants to handle
Degrowth – the promising climate change strategy no politician wants to handle?
