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Why People Harm the Environment Although They Try to Treat It Well: An Evolutionary-Cognitive Perspective on Climate Compensation
Why People Harm the Environment Although They Try to Treat It Well: An Evolutionary-Cognitive Perspective on Climate Compensation Anthropogenic climate changes stress the importance of understanding why people harm the environment despite their attempts to behave in climate friendly ways. This paper argues that one reason behind why people do this is that people apply […]
Has oil peaked?
Has oil peaked? Last month, the world’s 4th largest oil company—BP—predicted that the world will never again consume as much petroleum as it did last year. So, have we finally hit peak oil? And if so, what does that mean for our economy and our world? There was fierce controversy in the first decade of this century […]
Scientists’ warning to humanity on insect extinctions
Scientists’ warning to humanity on insect extinctions Preface. Below are excerpts from Cardoso, P., et al. 2020. Scientists’ warning to humanity on insect extinctions. Biological Conservation. *** Highlights: We are pushing many ecosystems beyond recovery, resulting in insect extinctions. Causes are habitat loss, pollution, invasives, climate change, and over exploitation. We lose biomass, diversity, unique histories, functions, […]
The US Oil and Gas Industry’s Methane Problem Is Catching up With It
The US Oil and Gas Industry’s Methane Problem Is Catching up With It For years, the oil and gas industry has been able to downplay, or outright ignore, the problem of methane. Methane is an invisible gas, and lax state and federal regulations in the U.S. have allowed oil and gas producers to self-report how much of this potent […]
BC Needs a ‘Wartime Approach’ to the Climate Emergency. And Now
BC Needs a ‘Wartime Approach’ to the Climate Emergency. And Now The urgent response to the pandemic has shown us we can do it. We can’t dither another minute. Wildfire smoke reached Coquitlam, BC last month. Intensifying wildfires are just one indication that we, like the rest of the planet, aren’t doing enough to stop […]
The Propaganda Game & Nothing But Blue Skies
The Propaganda Game & Nothing But Blue Skies COMMENT: I don’t know if anyone has informed you of this, but the UK government is heavily advertising their new Track and Trace app on all platforms. I’ve seen it on Youtube, Reddit, Facebook, Instagram, Google Ads and not to mention billboards on every street corner and bus […]
What If Preventing Collapse Isn’t Profitable?
What If Preventing Collapse Isn’t Profitable? The real downside of the green-profit narrative has been that it created the assumption in many people’s minds that the solution to climate change and other environmental dilemmas is technical, and that policy makers and industrialists will implement it for us, so that the way we live doesn’t need […]
Anthropogenic CO2 Emissions are Fate
Anthropogenic CO2 Emissions are Fate Mill, Halsey, Oregon. Photo: Jeffrey St. Clair. I developed a model of Global Warming based on the anthropogenic perturbation of the Carbon Cycle. The essence of this model is a rate equation for the evolution of the carbon dioxide (CO2) concentration in the atmosphere. The interesting results from this model […]
Catastrophic Hurricanes Are the ‘New Normal,’ and They Will Cost Trillions
Catastrophic Hurricanes Are the ‘New Normal,’ and They Will Cost Trillions Taxpayers and already struggling communities are largely bearing the brunt of the costs for climate change-fueled disasters created by big oil and big business. “We got a little bit lucky,” said President Donald Trump about the storm which killed at least six people in […]
Climate explained: why carbon dioxide has such outsized influence on Earth’s climate
Climate explained: why carbon dioxide has such outsized influence on Earth’s climate I heard that carbon dioxide makes up 0.04% of the world’s atmosphere. Not 0.4% or 4%, but 0.04%! How can it be so important in global warming if it’s such a small percentage? I am often asked how carbon dioxide can have an important […]
Is there a limit to optimism when it comes to climate change?
Is there a limit to optimism when it comes to climate change? Photo by Lance Cheung/USDA ‘We’re doomed’: a common refrain in casual conversation about climate change. It signals an awareness that we cannot, strictly speaking, avert climate change. It is already here. All we can hope for is to minimise climate change by keeping global average […]
Nobel prize-winning economics of climate change is misleading and dangerous – here’s why
Nobel prize-winning economics of climate change is misleading and dangerous – here’s why While climate scientists warn that climate change could be catastrophic, economists such as 2018 Nobel prize winner William Nordhaus assert that it will be nowhere near as damaging. In a 2018 paper published after he was awarded the prize, Nordhaus claimed that 3°C of warming would reduce global […]
Big Oil’s Backers Are Jumping Ship — and That’s Good for the Planet
Big Oil’s Backers Are Jumping Ship — and That’s Good for the Planet Investors, banks and even some oil and gas companies are breaking ranks on the future of high-emission energy. Alberta’s oilsands are increasingly toxic for major investors concerned with global warming. Photo by Kris Krug, Creative Commons licensed. The oil lobby’s political friends are […]
Whatever Happened to the Green New Deal?
Whatever Happened to the Green New Deal? The Green New Deal was the signature issue of the Green Party in the 2010s. Howie Hawkins was the first US candidate to campaign for a Green New Deal in 2010 running for New York governor. The Green Party’s presidential candidate in 2012 and 2016, Jill Stein, made […]
