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“Bunker,” the Fuel for the Giant Engines in Large Cargo Ships
“Bunker,” the Fuel for the Giant Engines in Large Cargo Ships The world grapples with the emissions. When pricing a container shipment, we are sometimes told rates have gone up because “bunker oil” has increased in price or that the delivery will take a few extra days because shipowners ordered their skippers to slow down […]
Conflict Over the Future of the Planet
Conflict Over the Future of the Planet On this Earth Day, it is difficult to look at the state of the planet and the current political leadership and see much hope. In “Junk Planet”, Robert Burrowes writes a comprehensive description of the degradation of the atmosphere, oceans, waterways, groundwater, and soil as well as the […]
9 Mindful Ways to Start Breaking Up With Plastic – For Good!
9 Mindful Ways to Start Breaking Up With Plastic – For Good! One of the big problems with our prepackaged, modern, consumer spending-based economies is that everything is mass-produced in plastic with little or no regard for the future problems it creates. To date, 14 billion pounds of garbage are dumped into the ocean every year – […]
We know how food production needs to change if crisis is to be avoided – so why isn’t this happening?
We know how food production needs to change if crisis is to be avoided – so why isn’t this happening? As the world races toward a projected 9 billion inhabitants, the failings of dominant food systems are impossible to deny. Current food production methods are severely polluting. They are the cause of malnutrition. They are also […]
Pollution, Invasive Aliens, & Mass Extinction: 20,000 Scientists ‘Warn Humanity’ The End Is Nigh
Pollution, Invasive Aliens, & Mass Extinction: 20,000 Scientists ‘Warn Humanity’ The End Is Nigh A wave of nationalist/populist/anti-globalization, record high debt, nuclear doomsday clock at its highs, soaring financial leverage, and now trade wars. If the world did not have enough to worry about, 20,000 scientists have a few more reasons to believe ‘the end […]
Globalization’s Deadly Footprint
Globalization’s Deadly Footprint That pollution is bad for our health will come as a surprise to no one. That pollution kills at least 9 million people every year might. This is 16 percent of all deaths worldwide – 3 times more than AIDS, tuberculosis and malaria combined, and 15 times more than all wars and […]
Junk Planet: Is Earth the Largest Garbage Dump in the Universe?
Junk Planet: Is Earth the Largest Garbage Dump in the Universe? Is Earth the largest garbage dump in the Universe? I don’t know. But it’s a safe bet that Earth would be a contender were such a competition to be held. Let me explain why. To start, just listing the types of rubbish generated by […]
Devil’s Bargain
Devil’s Bargain We already have planet-cooling technology. The problem is, it’s killing us. A trope of sci-fi movies these days, from Snowpiercer to Geostorm, is that our failure to tackle climate change will eventually force us to deploy an arsenal of unproven technologies to save the planet. Think sun-deflecting space mirrors or chemically altered clouds. […]
Ending Pollution Requires a Change in Attitudes
Ending Pollution Requires a Change in Attitudes Pollution has become an everyday affair; a murderous way of life which, according to a report published in The Lancet, is responsible for the deaths of at least nine million people every year. The air we breathe is poisoned, the streams, rivers, lakes and oceans are filthy, — […]
Tim Jackson: The High Price Of Growth
Tim Jackson: The High Price Of Growth A finite planet cannot sustain infinite economic growth Modern society is addicted to and engineered for perpetual economic growth. Now, a fourth-grader can tell you that nothing can grow forever, especially if you have finite resources. But that simple realization is eluding today’s central planners, despite multiplying evidence […]
From Homes to Refineries, Finding Pollution and Loss in Harvey’s Path
From Homes to Refineries, Finding Pollution and Loss in Harvey’s Path When Harvey’s rain, for the most part, stopped falling on August 30, I started making my way from Louisiana to Texas to document the pollution inevitably left in the storm’s path. That day I got as far as Vidor, a small town in southeast […]
Our Fossil-Fuel Economy Destroys the Earth and Exploits Humanity – Here’s the Shift We Need to Be Sustainable
Our Fossil-Fuel Economy Destroys the Earth and Exploits Humanity – Here’s the Shift We Need to Be Sustainable Communities around the world are rewriting the rules of their economies and building something beautiful. plant in hands – grass background Photo Credit: Romolo Tavani/Shutterstock I am a Mexican immigrant and a senior at Columbia University who’s […]
“There is no doubt”: Exxon Knew CO2 Pollution Was A Global Threat By Late 1970s
“There is no doubt”: Exxon Knew CO2 Pollution Was A Global Threat By Late 1970s By Brendan DeMelle and Kevin Grandia • Tuesday, April 26, 2016 – 09:19 Throughout Exxon’s global operations, the company knew that CO2 was a harmful pollutant in the atmosphere years earlier than previously reported. DeSmog has uncovered Exxon corporate documents from the late […]
Our economic growth system is reaching limits in a strange way
Our economic growth system is reaching limits in a strange way Economic growth never seems to be as high as those making forecasts would like it to be. This is a record of recent forecasts by the International Monetary Fund: Figure 1. World GDP Forecasts by the International Monetary Fund. Figure 2 shows world economic growth […]
