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Three Climatic Monsters with Asteroid Impact
Three Climatic Monsters with Asteroid Impact Continuing from Part 1: Monster #2 Greenhouse Gases (“GHG”) alter ecosystems. The biggest impact of anthropogenic GHG hits the oceans. There is no doubt about the importance of the oceans as a great sink, 2/3rds of the planet. After all, the oceans have saved humanity’s butt ever since industrialization […]
Lessons That Should Have Been Learned From NATO’s Destruction of Libya
Lessons That Should Have Been Learned From NATO’s Destruction of Libya Photo by Bernd.Brincken | CC BY 2.0 The summit meeting of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization, the military alliance that is expanding its deployments of troops, combat and surveillance aircraft and missile ships around Russia’s borders, took place on July 11-12 and was a […]
The Sinister Underbelly of Climate Change Denial
The Sinister Underbelly of Climate Change Denial The last few days of June 2018 saw most people in the United States sweltering in an epic heat wave. High temperatures were uniformly between 90 and 110 degrees in a mind-boggling 17 states [1]. Heat indices in parts of the East and Midwest approached 120 degrees. Heat […]
Axiom of Uncertainty
Axiom of Uncertainty It’s simple. Given that there might well be an absolute nature/structure of the universe and our perhaps fundamentally limited cognitive position/abilities within it can we be certain that we can be sure about the true nature of anything? Can there be fundamental forces, matter, and material relationships of which we will never know? While unanswerable in principle, the mere possibility of […]
How Lead Poisoning Was Discovered in Flint’s Water
How Lead Poisoning Was Discovered in Flint’s Water The toxic water supply in Flint, Michigan, which exposed up to 42,000 children under 2 years of age to lead poisoning, was a major media story a few years back. Ingestion of high dosages of lead, particularly among infants, results in cognitive impairment, attention and mood disorders, […]
GMO Agriculture and the Narrative of Choice
GMO Agriculture and the Narrative of Choice The pro-GMO lobby claim critics of the technology ‘deny farmers choice’. They say that farmers should have access to a range of tools and technologies. It is all about maximising choice and options. Taken at face value, who would want to deny choice? At the same time, however, […]
Social Media and Israel: Censorship of the Truth
Social Media and Israel: Censorship of the Truth Photo by Susan Ruggles | CC BY 2.0 The growing desperation of Israel to avoid public knowledge of its many war crimes and crimes against humanity knows no bounds. The country that, with United States support, proclaims itself the ‘only democracy in the Middle East’, has, like […]
World Bank Solution for Lack of Jobs: Cut Worker Protections
World Bank Solution for Lack of Jobs: Cut Worker Protections The World Bank is in the process of completing its “World Development Report 2019: The Changing Nature of Work” and, surprisingly, the latest draft version opens with quotes from Karl Marx and John Maynard Keynes. Has the World Bank suddenly lost sight of its purpose […]
Iraq is Threatened by Catastrophic Drought
Iraq is Threatened by Catastrophic Drought Photo by Jayel Aheram | CC BY 2.0 “I once rescued a friend from drowning when he was swept away by the force of the current as we were swimming in the Diyala river,” says Qasim Sabti, a painter and gallery owner in Baghdad. “That was fifty years ago,” […]
Diet, Ignorance and the Environmental Catastrophe
Diet, Ignorance and the Environmental Catastrophe Climate Change sounds vast and impersonal, but it’s really a very personal matter; a global crisis caused by the individual actions humanity has collectively taken. All too often such actions proceed from a position of ignorance selfishness and habit, and are undertaken with little or no understanding of the […]
The Official Fake News
The Official Fake News Emmanuel Macron, who was comfortably elected to the presidency with the support of almost the entire French media, has demanded that his parliamentary majority provide him with a law against ‘fake news’ during election campaigns. Perhaps he’s preparing for the next one. The draft legislation reveals both the blindness of those […]
Three Climatic Monsters with Asteroid Impact
Three Climatic Monsters with Asteroid Impact Photo by Logan Fulcher | CC BY 2.0 Three monster climatic events are currently shaping up to collide. It’ll be like an asteroid collision. In that regard, this article, in two parts, explores real, already happening, indisputable climate change that is starting to take down ecosystems throughout the biosphere. […]
Ecology: The Keystone Science
Ecology: The Keystone Science Photo by U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Headquarters | CC BY 2.0 A missing piece from most critiques of modern capitalism revolves around the misunderstanding of ecology. To put it bluntly, there will be no squaring the circle of mass industrial civilization and an inhabitable Earth. There is no way for […]
Trump’s Trade Tantrum: On Tipping Points and Authoritarian Peril
Trump’s Trade Tantrum: On Tipping Points and Authoritarian Peril Photo by Graham C99 | CC BY 2.0 The Tangerine Tosser’s triple trade tiff – with China, the European Union, and the United States’ NAFTA partners (Canada and Mexico) – has the potential to spark an American and global economic meltdown. Classic signs of a coming […]
A Failing Nation
A Failing Nation What are the necessary elements for the success of a modern nation state? According to one justifiably popular and well-written book, Why Nations Fail, it all has to do with inclusive political and economic institutions which foster technological change which in turn leads to increasing prosperity for the many. Two key aspects upholding […]
