Home » Survival (Page 33)
Category Archives: Survival
Wheat Spread Hits Record As Drought Plagues Midwest
Wheat Spread Hits Record As Drought Plagues Midwest The spread between hard-red winter wheat and soft-red winter wheat has blown out to a record high as drought threatens crop yields across the Midwest and other major farming regions. Hard-red winter wheat’s premium over soft-red winter wheat is $1.72 a bushel in Chicago on Tuesday morning, […]
How Science Caused Climate Collapse
How Science Caused Climate Collapse Editor’s note: Science, touted to be objective, is far from so. As Lewis Mumford explains and Derrick writes extensively in Myth of Human Supremacy, any tool cannot be separated from the overall social structure under which it was created and operates. Likewise, science, as a way of thought, was created […]
‘A Little Book of Insurgent Planning’
‘A Little Book of Insurgent Planning’ As we collapse, this free online book provides examples of what action we can take collectively. Taken from academic literature, it’s about how we struggle together as the world we have depended upon contracts and decays. How will we work together as food and water systems breakdown? How can we […]
Indigenous knowledge is key to sustainable food systems
Indigenous knowledge is key to sustainable food systems Agricultural sciences have for too long ignored traditional and local knowledge about crop plants and how best to grow them. That must change if the world is to ensure future food security. Farmer Angelina Monday works on her plot of land in Uganda, where she grows beans […]
We Underappreciate How Different We Are
We Underappreciate How Different We Are Photo by Joshua Fuller on Unsplash After I started working for my current employer, I met a colleague with whom I simply could not work with. We disagreed on almost everything — not on a factual level, but rather on how we approach working with problems and identify solutions. I felt like […]
Insects are vanishing worldwide – now it’s making it harder to grow food
Insects are vanishing worldwide – now it’s making it harder to grow food Over the past 20 years a steady trickle of scientific papers has reported that there are fewer insects than there used to be. Both the combined weight (what scientists call biomass) and diversity of insect species have declined. Some studies were based […]
Will Nuclear War, Debt Collapse or Energy Depletion Finish the World?
WILL NUCLEAR WAR, DEBT COLLAPSE OR ENERGY DEPLETION FINISH THE WORLD? Fragility has probably never been greater in history. Just three words encapsulate the destiny of the world. The THREE words are: WAR, DEBT, ENERGY A FOURTH word will financially save the ones who understand its significance. It will also play a major role in the […]
Two Different Perspectives – Same Conclusion: Modern Lifestyles Will End Soon
Two Different Perspectives – Same Conclusion: Modern Lifestyles Will End Soon Dr. Berndt Warm’s Perspective Thanks to Marromai for finding this new paper by physicist Dr. Berndt Warm. Dr. Warm uses 5 different methods, 4 relying on economics, and 1 on thermodynamics, to predict when the end of oil production and motor vehicle production will occur. All 5 methods […]
Professional Managers Are Driving Us Off the Cliff
Professional Managers Are Driving Us Off the Cliff “The old world is dying, and the new world struggles to be born: now is the time of monsters.” ― Antonio Gramsci We live through transitional times. Transition from an era of growth to economic contraction. From a stable climate to something utterly different and chaotic. From […]
Pakistan on the Brink: What the Collapse of the Nuclear-Armed Regional Power Could Mean for the World
Pakistan on the Brink: What the Collapse of the Nuclear-Armed Regional Power Could Mean for the World A series of disasters — including catastrophic flooding, political paralysis, exploding inflation, and a resurgent terror threat — risk sending the global player into full-blown crisis. Vendors sell fruit under battery-powered lights during a blackout due to a […]
The Year in Which I Grow Our Food Pt. 7
The Year in Which I Grow Our Food Pt. 7 A Place for Animals-Ducks and Geese When we arrived here almost 13 years ago, we brought with us a small red coop of 10 laying hens, and a pair of American Buff geese named Ginger and Ferdinand. The chickens no one questioned. But the geese….no one understood. […]
The Daily: 8 February 2023
The Daily: 8 February 2023 You have your way. I have my way. As for the right way, the correct way, and the only way, it does not exist. — Friedrich Nietzsche (in the Old Farmer's Almanac 2023 Planner) I do not agree with Nietzsche on many things. Big surprise there, I’m sure. So when I […]
Is There an Off-Ramp for Civilization?
Is There an Off-Ramp for Civilization? Our high-tech civilization is like an ageing man in full denial of his mortality. It is eating his children just to live a day longer, rather than admitting that its craving for immortality is founded on nothing more than magical thinking. In its firm belief that technology can save […]
