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Our Delusional Economy Is Poised To Slam Into The Brick Wall Of Reality
dailyhaha Our Delusional Economy Is Poised To Slam Into The Brick Wall Of Reality Will you thrive, merely survive, or fail? While life has always been uncertain, today our choices matter more than ever. The decisions each of us make today will determine if we thrive, merely survive, or fail during the future time of upheaval […]
While economic growth continues we’ll never kick our fossil fuels habit
While economic growth continues we’ll never kick our fossil fuels habit Illustration: Sébastien Thibault We’re getting there, aren’t we? We’re making the transition towards an all-electric future. We can now leave fossil fuels in the ground and thwart climate breakdown. Or so you might imagine, if you follow the technology news. So how come oil […]
The Perils of Plastic Pollution
The Perils of Plastic Pollution Plastics are found in the products we use every day: the toys we give our children, the clothing we wear, the disposable cups we drink from, the automobiles we make, the straws we use, the list goes on. Cheap and easy to make, plastic goods and plastic production have exploded […]
What Comes Next
What Comes Next Photo Source Doc Searls | CC BY 2.0 There are no hidden secrets about anthropogenic global warming. It’s everywhere, wherever one looks! After all, the People’s Climate March (311,000) in 2014 organized by 350.org (Bill McKibben) was one of the biggest rallies ever held in NYC. Also, worldwide exposure was ubiquitously on […]
What Will it Take to Avert Collapse?
What Will it Take to Avert Collapse? A lot of people are asking the question these days—including serious folks who work full-time on climate and energy policy. How can the world’s nations reduce greenhouse gas emissions fast enough to forestall climate catastrophe, without undermining either the global economy (which is still 85 percent dependent on […]
From CO2 to Methane, Trump’s Hurricane of Destruction
From CO2 to Methane, Trump’s Hurricane of Destruction Photo Source Becker1999 | CC BY 2.0 While the Trump administration swirls around in a vortex of Tweets, lies and Russiagate, one thing is for certain, while we are all distracted and perplexed by the daily mayhem, Trump and his fossil fuel buddies are getting away with […]
End the Fossil Fuel Economy
End the Fossil Fuel Economy The Global #RiseForClimate actions are just one example of many that the climate justice movement is building the power needed to transform the economy and put in place policies to confront climate change. The ingredients exist for the climate justice movement to rapidly succeed. A challenge is not knowing how much time we […]
Scientists Warn the UN of Capitalism’s Imminent Demise
Scientists Warn the UN of Capitalism’s Imminent Demise A climate change-fueled switch away from fossil fuels means the worldwide economy will fundamentally need to change. Image: Shutterstock Capitalism as we know it is over. So suggests a new report commissioned by a group of scientists appointed by the UN Secretary-General. The main reason? We’re transitioning rapidly […]
Petroleum Junkies of the World, Unite!
Petroleum Junkies of the World, Unite! Photo Source Fibonacci Blue | CC BY 2.0 I’m a fossil fuel junkie. I drive a car and use electricity. My computer, TV, telephone, refrigerator, stove, lights, water, and sewage all run on carbon-based energy.[1] All of the materials used to build my house and furniture were made with […]
Methane and climate: 10 things you should know
Methane and climate: 10 things you should know The graph above shows methane concentrations in Earth’s atmosphere over the past 10,000+ years: 8000 BCE to 2018 CE. The units are parts per billion (ppb). The year 1800 is marked with a circle. Note the ominous spike. As a result of increasing human-caused emissions, atmospheric methane […]
A Pyrrhic Climate
A Pyrrhic Climate What does it mean to fight and win an impossible war? Battle of Chancellorsville, by Kurz and Allison, 1889 Arecent debate in twitter’s climate community illuminated a schism between those arguing that mitigating climate change is impossible and those exhorting others to continue to “fight” climate change. While the debate yielded no […]
The Uncomfortable Hiatus
The Uncomfortable Hiatus And so the sun seems to stand still this last day before the resumption of business-as-usual, and whatever remains of labor in this sclerotic republic takes its ease in the ominous late summer heat, and the people across this land marinate in anxious uncertainty. What can be done? Some kind of epic […]
The Whole System Is Rigged
The Whole System Is Rigged From elections to media to the markets, it’s all controlled As the dog days of summer wind down, it’s hard not to notice how the climate is suffering brutally right now across many areas of the globe. Crop failures have hit hard across Europe. Australia is under an intense drought. […]
Human Predators, Human Prey: Part 2
Human Predators, Human Prey: Part 2 Society as Ecosystem in a Time of Collapse, Part II For Part I of this essay see here. 4. Our current context: the adaptive cycle, conservation, and release As we’ve seen, predator-prey relationships shape the flow of energy through ecosystems. But what happens in either a natural ecosystem or […]
The road away from fossil fuels
The road away from fossil fuels Katowice. Photo by Jadwiga (Flickr) President Andrzej Duda’s authoritarian government can expect a rough political ride in December, when politicians, diplomats and campaigners stream into Katowice, Poland, for the next UN summit on climate change. Poland’s so-called climate policy – to aim for “carbon neutrality” by discounting emissions from […]
