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Now the Pentagon tells Bush: climate change will destroy us
Now the Pentagon tells Bush: climate change will destroy us · Secret report warns of rioting and nuclear war · Britain will be ‘Siberian’ in less than 20 years · Threat to the world is greater than terrorism Pentagon outside Washington, DC (Photo by SAUL LOEB / AFP) Photograph: Saul Loeb/AFP/Getty Images Climate change over the next […]
Zog Energy becomes 25th UK supplier to go bust in three months
Zog Energy becomes 25th UK supplier to go bust in three months Company, which supplied gas to about 11,700 households, is another victim of record market prices Zog Energy was founded in 2012 with a plan to offer households simple, affordable gas tariffs. Photograph: Niklas Halle’n/AFP/Getty Images Another of the UK’s small energy companies has […]
Beware: Gaia may destroy humans before we destroy the Earth
Beware: Gaia may destroy humans before we destroy the Earth Covid-19 may well have been one attempt by the Earth to protect itself. Gaia will try harder next time with something even nastier ‘I am not hopeful of a positive outcome at Cop26, knowing who is participating. I was not invited to Glasgow, though that […]
The case for … making low-tech ‘dumb’ cities instead of ‘smart’ ones
The case for … making low-tech ‘dumb’ cities instead of ‘smart’ ones The Ma’dan people in Iraq weave buildings and floating islands from reeds. Photograph: Esme Allen/TSPL High-tech smart cities promise efficiency by monitoring everything from bins to bridges. But what if we ditched the data and embraced ancient technology instead? Ever since smartphones hooked us […]
‘Green growth’ doesn’t exist – less of everything is the only way to avert catastrophe
‘Green growth’ doesn’t exist – less of everything is the only way to avert catastrophe It is simply not possible to carry on at the current level of economic activity without destroying the environment ‘Combined impacts are laying waste to entire living systems.’ A dead North Atlantic right whale washed up on a beach in […]
‘Revolutionary in a quiet way’: the rise of community gardens in the UK
‘Revolutionary in a quiet way’: the rise of community gardens in the UK Royal Horticultural Society sets up first Community Awards as community gardens become more common Lucy Mitchell, a community project worker with the Golden Hill community garden, in Horfield, Bristol. Photograph: Adrian Sherratt/The Guardian “The first melon of the season always tastes amazing,” says […]
New Zealand rated best place to survive global societal collapse
New Zealand rated best place to survive global societal collapse Study citing ‘perilous state’ of industrial civilisation ranks temperate islands top for resilience Bunker repurposed for a US ‘doomsday’ community. A study proposes that countries able to grow food for their populations, protect their borders from unwanted mass migration and maintain an electrical grid, are […]
Our climate change turning point is right here, right now
Our climate change turning point is right here, right now People are dying. Aquatic animals are baking in their shells. Fruit is being cooked on the tree. It’s time to act. In April, California Gov. Gavin Newsom held a news conference in the parched basin of Lake Mendocino, where he announced a drought emergency for […]
No new oil, gas or coal development if world is to reach net zero by 2050, says world energy body
No new oil, gas or coal development if world is to reach net zero by 2050, says world energy body Governments must close gap between net zero rhetoric and reality, says International Energy Agency head The UK is licensing new oil and gas fields in the North Sea. Photograph: Jonathan Nackstrand/AFP/Getty Images Exploitation and development of […]
Guardian Promotes ‘Global Lockdown’ Every Two Years To Combat Climate Change
Guardian Promotes ‘Global Lockdown’ Every Two Years To Combat Climate Change We told you this was coming next… The London Guardian has suggested that global lockdowns will be needed every two years in order to save the planet. The outlet used the (now changed) alarmist headline ‘Global Lockdown Every Two Years Needed To Meet Paris […]
Global soils underpin life but future looks ‘bleak’, warns UN report
Global soils underpin life but future looks ‘bleak’, warns UN report It takes thousands of years for soils to form, meaning protection is needed urgently, say scientists Scientists describe soils as like the skin of the living world, vital but thin and fragile, and easily damaged by intensive farming, forest destruction, and pollution. Photograph: Zsolt […]
The curse of ‘white oil’: electric vehicles’ dirty secret
Brine pools and processing areas of the Rockwood lithium plant on the Atacama salt flat, Chile. Photograph: Iván Alvarado/Reuters The curse of ‘white oil’: electric vehicles’ dirty secret The race is on to find a steady source of lithium, a key component in rechargeable electric car batteries. But while the EU focuses on emissions, the […]
Big Oil’s answer to melting Arctic: cooling the ground so it can keep drilling
Big Oil’s answer to melting Arctic: cooling the ground so it can keep drilling Technology is keeping patches of Alaska permafrost frozen to preserve energy infrastructure even as indigenous residents’ world is transformed by the climate crisis An oil pipeline stretches across the landscape outside Prudhoe Bay in North Slope borough, Alaska. Photograph: Bonnie Jo […]
People want a greener, happier world now. But our politicians have other ideas
People want a greener, happier world now. But our politicians have other ideas Boris Johnson’s ‘return to normality’ will only mean more consumerism at the expense of the planet – we must resist it Out there somewhere, marked on no map but tantalisingly near, is a promised land called Normal, to which one day we […]
