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No Farmers, No Food, No Life
No Farmers, No Food, No Life The world is now facing a man-made food catastrophe. It is reaching crisis levels. Current policies in many parts of the world place a priority on climate change for realizing a green new deal. Meanwhile, such policies will contribute to children dying from severe malnutrition due to broken food […]
Micro utopias for an inclusive future
Micro utopias for an inclusive future When Gijsbert Huijink, a Dutch national living in Banyoles, in the Catalan province of Girona, set out to install solar panels in his home he stumbled upon a legal labyrinth that criminalized energy self-consumption. “If I wanted to connect to the grid to recharge my batteries and supply my […]
We are One Species
We are One Species Homeless camp and salmon mural under Morrison Bridge, Portland, Oregon. Photo: Jeffrey St. Clair. The world is a mess, in both social and ecological terms, mired in unjust and unsustainable systems. Responsibility for this condition is not shared equally. Powerful nations define world politics that has produced dramatic wealth inequality, and […]
It’s Earth Overshoot Day, and Future Generations Are Calling | Opinion
It’s Earth Overshoot Day, and Future Generations Are Calling | Opinion July 28 is Earth Overshoot Day. As of that day, for the rest of 2022, human economic activity will be using the planet’s resources beyond its capacity to renew them. Humans now consume things like wood, water, and soil at nearly twice the rate […]
UN, World Economic Forum Behind Global ‘War on Farmers’: Experts
A sign of the World Economic Forum (WEF) is seen at the Congress centre during its annual meeting in Davos on May 23, 2022. (Fabrice Coffrini/AFP via Getty Images) US NEWS UN, World Economic Forum Behind Global ‘War on Farmers’: Experts They say ‘Agenda 2030’ development goals at root of sustainability policies that could lead […]
BASF Prepares To Slash Ammonia Production In Germany Amid Worsening NatGas Crunch
BASF Prepares To Slash Ammonia Production In Germany Amid Worsening NatGas Crunch German chemicals company BASF SE paid an extra 800 million euros ($809.5 million) to keep its plants operating in the second quarter compared with a year earlier amid skyrocketing natural gas prices. The impact of high energy prices has forced the company to […]
We Are Going To See Energy Prices Go Absolutely Nuts This Winter Just As We Plunge Into A Horrifying Global Economic Crisis
We Are Going To See Energy Prices Go Absolutely Nuts This Winter Just As We Plunge Into A Horrifying Global Economic Crisis How would you feel if your power bill went up by 50 percent this winter? How about 100 percent? Unfortunately, these kinds of price increases are already being announced. The world was heading […]
Category 4 hurricane? Prepare for 21 days without power, Entergy says
Category 4 hurricane? Prepare for 21 days without power, Entergy says Even a Category 1 hurricane might bring 7 days without power, utility says. The electricity has been off for 11 days in Bridge City, La. Thursday, Sept. 9, 2021, in the aftermath of Hurricane Ida. (Staff photo by David Grunfeld, NOLA.com | The Times-Picayune | The […]
What Does An Ecological Civilization Look Like?
ILLUSTRATIONS BY DELPHINE LEE/YES! MAGAZINE What Does An Ecological Civilization Look Like? A society based on natural ecology might seem like a far-off utopia—yet communities everywhere are already creating it. As a new, saner administration sets up shop in Washington, D.C., there are plenty of policy initiatives this country desperately needs. Beyond a national plan for […]
FAQs from Episodes 1-25 of The Great Simplification
FAQs from Episodes 1-25 of The Great Simplification
The Dawn of the Apocalypse
The Dawn of the Apocalypse We were warned for decades about the death march we are on because of global warming. And yet, the global ruling class continues to frog-march us towards extinction. Our Climate Future – by Mr. Fish Subscribe now The past week has seen record-breaking heat waves across Europe. Wildfires have ripped through Spain, Portugal […]
Panama’s Inflation Upheaval Causing Food, Fuel Shortages
Panama’s Inflation Upheaval Causing Food, Fuel Shortages It started as a teacher’s strike to protest the high cost of gas, but it’s now the largest civil unrest in Panama since the end of dictator Manuel Noriega’s reign in 1989. With fiery roadblocks disrupting commerce and causing shortages of food, fuel and other supplies, the Panamanian government has […]
The Great Reset: An Alternate Theory
The Great Reset: An Alternate Theory In my last post I speculated that covid was a plan orchestrated by the heads of the important central banks to provide cover for printing a gazillion dollars to head off an imminent economic collapse, and to implement tools like digital currencies and lockdown mechanisms that will be useful for maintaining social order […]
By wis.dom project: Regress in Progress: Who is responsible?
By wis.dom project: Regress in Progress: Who is responsible? Dire Evolutionary Timeline by Blu This is an essay from reader wis.dom project who describes his painful personal journey of connecting dots to achieve awareness of our overshoot predicament. I was born in 1969, at a time when everything still seemed possible. On July 20, two people walked on the […]
