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Massive Deficit Spending Greenlights Waste, Fraud, Profiteering and Dysfunction
Massive Deficit Spending Greenlights Waste, Fraud, Profiteering and Dysfunction America’s problem isn’t a lack of deficit spending/consumption. America’s problems are profoundly structural. The nice thing about free to me money from any source is the recipients don’t have to change anything. Free money is the ultimate free-pass from consequence and adaptation: instead of having to […]
Everything That Dies Does Not Come Back
Everything That Dies Does Not Come Back Charles Sprague Pearce The Arab jeweler c1882 There are a lot of industries in our world that wreak outsized amounts of havoc. Think the biggest global banks and oil companies. Think plastics. But there is one field that is much worse than all others: agro-chemicals. At some point, […]
Common Composting Problems and Solutions for the Beginning Composter
COMMON COMPOSTING PROBLEMS AND SOLUTIONS FOR THE BEGINNING COMPOSTER Composting is standard practice on any permaculture site. This is the case for several reasons. It creates a closed waste cycle between vegetable scraps and vegetable production, often with the added bonus (an in-between stop) of animal fodder. It helps to rebuild or maintain healthy, balanced […]
Expediency and Magical Thinking
Earth’s Economy Glorifies Waste, Exploitation, Debt, Expediency and Magical Thinking Humanity appears to default to magical thinking when faced with untenable situations that demand systemic change. How would extraterrestrial anthropologists characterize Earth’s dominant socio-economic system? It’s not difficult to imagine their dismaying report: “Earth’s economy glorifies waste. Its economists rejoice when a product is disposed as […]
Heal the Planet for Profit
Heal the Planet for Profit Parisians duck down to evade German sniper fire following Nazi surrender of Paris, 1945If you ever wondered what the odds are of mankind surviving, let alone ‘defeating’, climate change, look no further than the essay the Guardian published this week, written by Michael Bloomberg and Mark Carney. It proves beyond a […]
Mass Extinction and Mass Insanity
Mass Extinction and Mass Insanity Caters Extremely rare albino elephant, Kruger National Park in South AfricaEverything dies, baby, that’s a fact But maybe everything that dies someday comes back … Springsteen, Atlantic City “Erwin Schrodinger (1945) has described life as a system in steady-state thermodynamic disequilibrium that maintains its constant distance from equilibrium (death) by feeding […]
Pentagon’s War on the Earth
Pentagon’s War on the Earth We are waging war. We are the Nation of War. We destroy. We kill. Everyone fears us. Fewer and fewer admire us. But our fighting forces—and their attendant industries which manufacture the bombs, bullets, and ballistic delivery devices—also wage a war on the clean air, clean water, and clean soil […]
Getting it wrong on recycling
Getting it wrong on recycling Let’s see what those disparaging America’s rate of recycling as “too high” either get completely wrong or fail to understand. You can read recent commentary suggesting that the recycling rate is too high here, here and here. The number one complaint is that it costs more to recycle some categories of waste than to […]
The Apex of Industrialism:Manufactured Fake Shit
The Apex of Industrialism: Manufactured Fake Shit The Dr. Pooper Papers, Issue #2: While it would be nice to think that in times before the industrial era that farming was a wholly benevolent practice, the truth of the matter is that similar to today, agriculture actually began with annual monocultures. Nonetheless, there did emerge over […]
The Big Waste: Why Do We Throw Away So Much Food?
The Big Waste: Why Do We Throw Away So Much Food? In an e360 video, filmmaker Karim Chrobog looks at the staggering amount of food wasted in the U.S. – a problem with major human and environmental costs. The video focuses on Washington, D.C., which has taken steps to see that food ends up with those […]
We have to stop filling and killing the oceans with plastic
We have to stop filling and killing the oceans with plastic Eight million tonnes. That’s how much plastic we’re tossing into the oceans every year! University of Georgia environmental engineer Jenna Jambeck says it’s enough to line up five grocery bags of trash on every foot of coastline in the world. A study published by Jambeck and […]
The Lost Right of Gleaning | David Bollier
The Lost Right of Gleaning | David Bollier. Amazingly, it is sometimes a criminal act to retrieve food that has been thrown away. Often it is simply seen as culturally inappropriate or embarrassing. But when an estimated $165 billion worth of food gets thrown away in the U.S. every year, surely it’s time to change […]
The Environment: Increasing Waste – Crash Course Chapter 24 | Peak Prosperity
The Environment: Increasing Waste – Crash Course Chapter 24 | Peak Prosperity. Chapter 24 of the Crash Course is now publicly available and ready for watching below. Following up on the previous chapter focusing on human-caused resource depletion, the other disheartening part of the story of the environment concerns the things we humans put back into […]
Food Waste: A Way of Life That Needs to Change | Underground Medic
Food Waste: A Way of Life That Needs to Change | Underground Medic. I hate food waste. I loathe spending good money on decent food and then seeing it go into the garbage. For that reason food waste has been banned from my home. I understand that it can be difficult to avoid sometimes. We all […]
