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Climate Change Won’t Stop for the Coronavirus Pandemic
Climate Change Won’t Stop for the Coronavirus Pandemic The next several months could bring hurricanes, floods and fire, on top of the pandemic currently raging through the country. How do you shelter in place during an evacuation? SERIES: CORONAVIRUS Is the United States Prepared for COVID-19? ProPublica is a nonprofit newsroom that investigates abuses of power. […]
In Praise of Short Supply Chains
In Praise of Short Supply Chains As the coronavirus pandemic affects every area of the food supply chain, the ORFC team find out how Community Supported Agriculture (CSA), box schemes and others working with shorter supply chains are responding to the sudden huge demand for their supplies. For many people farming, growing or producing food […]
Plague and Civilization
Plague and Civilization The plague is a disease that raises its devouring and catastrophic head every so many decades and centuries, especially when humans violently disturb the natural world. The 2020 plague is one of a variety of pandemic diseases that have afflicted humans for millennia, not necessarily with the same intensity or virulence. The […]
Large-Scale Disaster: A Sobering Problem – Requiring A Different Approach
Large-Scale Disaster: A Sobering Problem – Requiring A Different Approach Most survival strategies and related tactics today draw upon the methods that worked in much smaller disasters and will likely work to some extent today in similar small-scale disasters. However, large-scale (continental-sized disasters) are quite different in many ways. Q1 2020 hedge fund letters, conferences […]
When viruses shatter limits
When viruses shatter limits Viruses are invisibly small, cause monumental pandemics, and force us to rethink our taxonomies All that is left to us, therefore, is to understand what the disaster is producing within us, to pay attention to the explosion of affects it reveals. Therein lie the complexity of the situation and its rare […]
Far worse to come: COVID-19 collapse of state and local governments
Far worse to come: COVID-19 collapse of state and local governments Another sudden and unexpected factor will transform this year’s elections. Many states, cities and counties are about to, suddenly, run out of money. Wages won’t be paid. Services won’t be delivered. Institutions will shut down abruptly. Many state colleges may fold. And yet most […]
Impact of Corona Virus similar to some earlier peak oil scenarios
Impact of Corona Virus similar to some earlier peak oil scenarios Empty roads, grounded aircraft, falling tourist and international student numbers, plunging car sales, empty super market shelves, disrupted supply chains… China Car Sales Slump 92% in First Half of February on Virus 21 Feb 2020 https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-02-21/china-car-sales-tumble-92-in-first-half-of-february-on-virus That all sounds like peak oil has hit […]
“Worst. Recession. Ever.”
“Worst. Recession. Ever.” When Harry Met Comic-Book-Guy “Worst global downturn since the Great Depression” says the IMF. Actually, it’s potentially worse than that.We are seeing credible (initial) claims in the UK and US that millions/tens of millions are going to be unemployed – again taking us back to black & white memories of long queues of […]
The Self Sufficiency Surge
The Self Sufficiency Surge Gardening journalist, Kim Stoddart examines the grow your own phenomenon that has emerged as a result of fears around food security since the pandemic lockdown. In the days leading up to the restrictions (and ever since), there has been a sheer frenzy of interest in fruit and vegetable growing as people seek to […]
Good (enough) Choices in Bad Times
Good (enough) Choices in Bad Times I have spent most of my adult life experimenting and teaching lifestyle choices that actually ripple up from personal change to social benefit. Yet in the face of this pandemic, these can-do approaches to life’s basics sound tinny. Our freedom of motion is constrained. How are we to […]
What Might We Learn from COVID-19?
What Might We Learn from COVID-19? COVID-19 has much to teach us about compassion, caring, gratitude, cooperation and truth. We need to thank our news media for keeping us informed, especially at this particular moment when falsity and division abound. Leaders supporting “fake news” and “alternative facts” have failed to address a pandemic in time […]
COVID-19 and the War on Cash: What Is Behind the Push for a Cashless Society? [SHORT]
COVID-19 and the War on Cash: What Is Behind the Push for a Cashless Society? [SHORT] Cash may well become a casualty of the COVID-19 pandemic. As these COVID-19 lockdowns drag out, more and more individuals and businesses are going cashless (for convenience and in a so-called effort to avoid spreading coronavirus germs), engaging in online commerce […]
A Letter to the Future
A Letter to the Future “The lamps are going out all over Europe, we shall not see them lit again in our life-time.”—WWI conspirator Edward Grey I do not write these words for my contemporaries. We are the damned. It is our lot now to watch as the lamp of liberty is extinguished, our burden to […]
Disunited States: Government Failure to Address Coronavirus is Sparking a Mutual Aid Revolution
Disunited States: Government Failure to Address Coronavirus is Sparking a Mutual Aid Revolution As state and local authorities struggle and the federal government focus on saving Wall Street, a volunteer-driven mutual aid revolution is taking hold in disenfranchised communities across America. I‘m not from DC, but I live here. I’m now a part of this […]
