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The #1 Reason I Became A Doomer
The #1 Reason I Became A Doomer We’re not doomed because of climate change, resource depletion, or biodiversity loss. We’re doomed because human nature made those things inevitable. There are many reasons I became a doomer. Climate change is accelerating and governments aren’t taking it seriously. The sixth mass extinction event is well underway and most people don’t care. […]
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 […]
It will cost up to $21.5 billion to clean up California’s oil sites. The industry won’t make enough money to pay for it.
It will cost up to $21.5 billion to clean up California’s oil sites. The industry won’t make enough money to pay for it. An expert used California regulators’ methodology to estimate the cost of cleaning up the state’s onshore oil and gas industry. The study found that cleanup costs will be triple the industry’s projected […]
Amazon Packages Burn in India, Final Stop in Broken Recycling System
Amazon Packages Burn in India, Final Stop in Broken Recycling System Plastic wrappers and parcels that start off in Americans’ recycling bins end up at illegal dumpsites and industrial furnaces — and inside the lungs of people in Muzaffarnagar. Muzaffarnagar, a city about 80 miles north of New Delhi, is famous in India for two […]
Global Dimming Keeping the Planet Habitable
Global Dimming Keeping the Planet Habitable If you have not already seen it, visitors to this blog will have an interest in this 50-min documentary, “BBC Global Dimming Documentary”, via Gail Zawacki at her Wit’s End blog. It relates to evidence obtained from the three-day aircraft grounding that occurred after 9/11 and the profound effects that just […]
Want to save the oceans? Stop recycling plastic
Want to save the oceans? Stop recycling plastic If you put your plastic in your recycling bin, there’s a decent chance it will end up in the seas off east Asia. If you put it in landfill, it’s going nowhere Plastic in a river in Manila, the Philippines, where a significant amount of Western ‘recycling’ […]
The Coming Removal of the Mandate of Heaven, Part 2: Water
The Coming Removal of the Mandate of Heaven, Part 2: Water Water, water everywhere but all of it polluted Before I started I wanted to address my last post. I wrote it a little too hastily due to a sick daughter and I plan to go back and clean it up somewhat. The political infighting […]
How Bad is Pollution Loading?
How Bad is Pollution Loading? Many people tend to forget about pollution loading as a predicament. After all, the primary focus often has more to do with more immediate concerns such as climate change, energy and resource decline (the REAL reason behind supply chain woes), disease, and other issues seen as being more important. However, when one […]
Here Come the Climate Change Lockdowns
Here Come the Climate Change Lockdowns Here’s our Friday roll-up of the most ridiculous stories from around the world that are threats to your liberty, risks to your prosperity… and on occasion, inspiring poetic justice. Cities in India Will Lockdown Over Air Pollution The Supreme Court of India has ordered India’s capital, New Delhi, and […]
Media Declares ‘Climate Lockdowns’ a “Conspiracy Theory” as India Prepares to Impose Climate Lockdown
Media Declares ‘Climate Lockdowns’ a “Conspiracy Theory” as India Prepares to Impose Climate Lockdown Nonessential travel banned as tens of millions told to work from home. Hindustan Times via Getty Images While the media declares the notion of ‘climate lockdowns’ to be a fake news “conspiracy theory,” India is preparing to impose a climate lockdown […]
Carbon Starvation – A Crisis Of Our Time?
Carbon Starvation – A Crisis Of Our Time? Are we beginning to see carbon – the fundamental building block of all life – as a pollutant? Instead of demonising carbon as a cause of climate breakdown, we need to restore balance in the natural carbon cycle that has been disrupted by the use of artificial […]
CON26
CON26 Up Stories Evia 2021The IPCC came out with another report today, which is a lead-in to another climate conference, this time in Glasgow in Oct-Nov 2021. All the headlines and reactions are exactly the same as they always are: There is no time to lose!, We have to act now!, but also: There is still hope! […]
The Crisis of the Natural World
The Crisis of the Natural World Mountain Goat, North Cascades National Park. Photo: Jeffrey St. Clair. The natural world is in a state of crisis, and we are to blame. We are in the midst of the Sixth Extinction, the biggest loss of species in the history of humankind. So many species are facing total annihilation. […]
“To Dirty it!” On how For-Profit News Obscured William Shatner’s Climate Emergency Warning after Suborbital Flight
October 17, 2021
“To Dirty it!” On how For-Profit News Obscured William Shatner’s Climate Emergency Warning after Suborbital Flight Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – On Wednesday, pop culture icon William Shatner, Star Trek‘s Captain James Tiberius Kirk, explained the enormity of seeing the earth from a suborbital flight on Blue Origin’s New Shepherd space craft. Part of what […]
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