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We’ll all be Flint Michigan someday: U.S. water infrastructure is falling apart
We’ll all be Flint Michigan someday: U.S. water infrastructure is falling apart NRC. 2006. Drinking Water Distribution Systems: Assessing and Reducing Risks Committee on Public Water Supply Distribution Systems: Assessing and Reducing Risks. National Research Council, National Academies Press. [ According to this Free National Research Council report, most water systems and distribution pipes will be […]
2016: Oil Limits and the End of the Debt Supercycle
2016: Oil Limits and the End of the Debt Supercycle What is ahead for 2016? Most people don’t realize how tightly the following are linked: Growth in debt Growth in the economy Growth in cheap-to-extract energy supplies Inflation in the cost of producing commodities Growth in asset prices, such as the price of shares of stock […]
The Rising Threats To Our Health
The Rising Threats To Our Health Around the world, general health is declining Though evidence of a looming global healthcare crisis is plainly visible, few seem to realize the consequences will be catastrophic to individuals, households and national economies. Here is a list—by no means exhaustive—of major health issues threatening hundreds of millions of people […]
Indonesian Coal Mining Boom Is Leaving Trail of Destruction
Indonesian Coal Mining Boom Is Leaving Trail of Destruction Since 2000, Indonesian coal production has increased five-fold to meet growing domestic demand for electricity and feed export markets in Asia. The intensive mining is leading to the clearing of rainforest and the pollution of rivers and rice paddies. Standing on a hilltop in Kerta Buena, an […]
Capitalism’s Cult of Human Sacrifice
Capitalism’s Cult of Human Sacrifice A girl walks on a track in a park across from the Valero refinery in the Manchester neighborhood of Houston. (Pat Sullivan / AP) HOUSTON—Bryan Parras stood in the shadows cast by glaring floodlights ringing the massive white, cylindrical tanks of the Valero oil refinery. He, like many other poor Mexican-Americans who […]
Con 21
Con 21 Nickolay Lamm Jefferson Memorial under 25 feet of water French Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius just announced, in Paris, a “legally binding agreement” that no-one has agreed the financing for. We can hear a couple thousand lawyers across the globe snicker. But it’s all the COP21 ‘oh-so-important’ climate conference managed to come up with. No surprises […]
Half A Million Square Kilometers Of Heavy Smog Force Beijing To Issue “Orange Alert”, Close Factories
Half A Million Square Kilometers Of Heavy Smog Force Beijing To Issue “Orange Alert”, Close Factories On Sunday, Beijing issued its highest smog alert of the year, upgrading it from the yellow of the past two days to orange, second only to red. According to local CCTV, heavy smog covered an area of half a million […]
Ecosystems Are Dying as Long Island Contends With a Nitrogen Bomb
Ecosystems Are Dying as Long Island Contends With a Nitrogen Bomb Septic systems and nitrogen pollution are killing the island’s marine heritage Photo courtesy of Stefan Beaumont Dead fish pile up on the shore of Long Island’s Peconic Bay in this photo taken on June 1, 2015. The fish suffocated when an algae outbreak […]
Because the ‘Time for Climate Action Is Now,’ Oslo Makes Landmark Move to Ban Cars
Because the ‘Time for Climate Action Is Now,’ Oslo Makes Landmark Move to Ban Cars ‘The reduction in pollution will make the city even better to live in, and ensure that we take our global responsibility’ Pedestrians walk down a street in Oslo. (Photo: Caleb Khor/flickr/cc) As part of a plan to rein in carbon emissions, […]
Ecuador vs. Chevron, By Way of Canada
Ecuador vs. Chevron, By Way of Canada In the latest twist to a 22-year-old legal saga, Canada’s Supreme Court ruled on September 4th that Ecuadorian villagers can seek to enforce an Ecuadorian legal judgment in Canada for $9.5 billion against Chevron Corporation for polluting the Amazon rainforest. The plaintiffs were successful in arguing that since […]
Field Notes to Life During the Apocalypse
Field Notes to Life During the Apocalypse Shell’s Arctic drilling rig. Photo: Greenpeace. When the apocalypse arrived no one knew it could be so seductive. In the Pacific Northwest global warming has meant winter days fit for lounging outside in t-shirts. Wildfires feeding on drought-stricken forests are producing surreal tangerine-orange sunlight. The heat has wreaked havoc […]
Living Downstream of B.C.’s Gold Rush: Alaska’s Fishermen Fear End of ‘Last Wild Frontier’
Living Downstream of B.C.’s Gold Rush: Alaska’s Fishermen Fear End of ‘Last Wild Frontier’ No fish in the car, warned the rental car attendant at Juneau airport, with the weary tone of someone who had cleaned too many fish guts out of returned vehicles. It was a warning underlined by signs in hotels pleading with […]
How Humans Cause Mass Extinctions
How Humans Cause Mass Extinctions STANFORD – There is no doubt that Earth is undergoing the sixth mass extinction in its history – the first since the cataclysm that wiped out the dinosaurs some 65 million years ago. According to one recent study, species are going extinct between ten and several thousand times faster than they […]
Koch Political Machine Focuses on “Freedom” to Pollute and Pay Less Taxes
Koch Political Machine Focuses on “Freedom” to Pollute and Pay Less Taxes Billionaire conservative activist Charles Koch on Sunday likened his political efforts to the struggles of Martin Luther King Jr. and Frederick Douglass, saying that “we, too, are seeking to right injustices that are holding our country back.” We know this because Politico and the Washington Post […]
