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It’s Not About Saving the Planet, It’s the Big Daddy We Need To Look For
It’s Not About Saving the Planet, It’s the Big Daddy We Need To Look For Don’t tell Greta, but the hits keep coming for wind projects… For perspective, $4 billion equals about 28 billion DKK. Orsted’s equity is 76 billion DKK, so that $4 billion hit is equivalent to some 37% of its market cap. […]
Today’s Contemplation: Collapse Cometh XXXII–Greenwashing, Fiat Currency, and Narrative Management: More On Climate Change and Elite Confabs
Today’s Contemplation: Collapse Cometh XXXII November 6, 2021 Tulum, Mexico (1986) Photo by author Greenwashing, Fiat Currency, and Narrative Management: More On Climate Change and Elite Confabs Today’s missive was motivated by a former student’s (and eventual colleague) question regarding a Facebook Post I made regarding COP-26. Here’s what I posted: COP-26. Be aware… These elite confabs […]
Today’s Contemplation: Collapse Cometh XXXI–Beware the Snake Oil Salesmen: Climate Change and Elite Confabs
Today’s Contemplation: Collapse Cometh XXXI November 2, 2021 Tulum, Mexico (1986) Photo by author Beware the Snake Oil Salesmen: Climate Change and Elite Confabs So, dozens of political leaders, their hundreds of staff, multitudes of corporate leaders, and who knows how many ‘celebrities’ have all gathered in Glasgow, Scotland for an elite confab (#26) to discuss the […]
The World Has Already Ended
The World Has Already Ended Due to climate change, pollution, and biodiversity loss, the world in which civilization was born has already ended. Most people just don’t know it yet. “You say the ocean’s rising, Like I give a shit, You say the whole world’s ending, Honey, it already did.” – All Eyes On Me […]
Coming Soon: Your Travel Will Be Restricted By Personal Carbon Allowances
Coming Soon: Your Travel Will Be Restricted By Personal Carbon Allowances “Experts suggest” your standard of living be reduced by over 85% A report on the future of travel and tourism, co-authored by a travel agency called Intrepid Travel and The Future Labs Institute, posits a future deeply impacted by climate change and restrictions on […]
Why Civilization Would Collapse Even Without Climate Change
Why Civilization Would Collapse Even Without Climate Change Even if there were no climate change, civilization would still collapse in the next few decades. Here’s why. I want to start by emphasizing that I have nothing but love and respect for the millions of climate activists in the world, many of whom work tirelessly to […]
Climate Disaster Is Here—and the State Will Never Save Us
Climate Disaster Is Here—and the State Will Never Save Us “States demonstrate, again and again, that not only do they not protect the Earth, they facilitate its destruction.” Dean Spade on the promise of speculative fiction and a review of The Ministry for the Future and The Deluge. The Isle de Jean Charles in Louisiana […]
Today’s Contemplation: Collapse Cometh XXIV–Climate Change and Narratives to Support Continued Economic Growth
Today’s Contemplation: Collapse Cometh XXIV Tulum, Mexico (1986) Photo by author Climate Change and Narratives to Support Continued Economic Growth The following commentary was once again prompted by an online media article, this one discussing the necessary paradigm shift required to confront the existential dilemma of climate change, particularly how we view our relationship with nature […]
Report: majority of carbon offset projects globally are “likely junk”
Report: majority of carbon offset projects globally are “likely junk” Analysis found that 39, or 78%, of the 50 environmental projects were categorised as “likely junk or worthless” due to one or more “fundamental failing”. Reforestation is one of the most common projects traded within the VCM. Credit: Richard Whitcombe via Shutterstock. The “vast majority” […]
Researchers: We’ve Underestimated The Risk of Simultaneous Crop Failures Worldwide
Researchers: We’ve Underestimated The Risk of Simultaneous Crop Failures Worldwide The risks of harvest failures in multiple global breadbaskets have been underestimated, according to a study Tuesday that researchers said should be a “wake up call” about the threat climate change poses to our food systems. Food production is both a key source of planet-warming emissions and […]
Climate change is redrawing the disaster map
Climate change is redrawing the disaster map From tropical storms to wildfires, climate disasters aren’t confined to the places we’re used to seeing them. Vehicles and housing structures are partially submerged after Tropical Storm Hilary flooded a community of unhoused people on August 21st, 2023, in Cathedral City, California. Photo by Mario Tama / Getty Images […]
‘We are damned fools’: scientist who sounded climate alarm in 80s warns of worse to come
‘We are damned fools’: scientist who sounded climate alarm in 80s warns of worse to come James Hansen, who testified to Congress on global heating in 1988, says world is approaching a ‘new climate frontier’ The world is shifting towards a superheated climate not seen in the past 1m years, prior to human existence, because […]
Climate Change Has Come Full Circle
Climate Change Has Come Full Circle Photo by Mike Newbry on Unsplash Our modern technological civilization was born out of fossil fuels. Coal. Oil. Natural gas. To this very day most of our industry, transportation and agriculture is still powered by these incredibly dense, portable, storable sources of energy. There is a fly in the ointment though: the […]
What If There Are No Politically Feasible Answers?
What If There Are No Politically Feasible Answers? Political Realism vs Ecological Realism At times, we are confronted with choices that demand us to pick between two undesirable alternatives, often known as a dilemma. The annals of history are brimming with such instances. When Hitler ascended to power in Germany and commenced his invasions across […]
