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Eco Crises: Doom & Gloom, Truth & Consequences
Eco Crises: Doom & Gloom, Truth & Consequences Photo Source Sakeeb Sabakka | CC BY 2.0 …We can’t save the world by playing by the rules because the rules have to change. Everything needs to change and it has to start today….To all the politicians that pretend to take the climate question seriously, to all […]
As the fracking protesters show, a people’s rebellion is the only way to fight climate breakdown
As the fracking protesters show, a people’s rebellion is the only way to fight climate breakdown Our politicians, under the influence of big business, have failed us. As they take the planet to the brink, it’s time for disruptive, nonviolent disobedience Illustration by Bill Bragg It is hard to believe today, but the prevailing ethos […]
Warning! Civilization at Risk, Crisis by 2040 (And Other Nonsensical Climate BS)
Warning! Civilization at Risk, Crisis by 2040 (And Other Nonsensical Climate BS) The amount of climate scaremongering in the past few weeks is stunning. And it’s all pure bullshit. Check out these headlines. Wall Street Journal: U.N. Panel Warns Drastic Action Needed to Stave Off Climate Change New York Times: Major Climate Report Describes a […]
Aspirational Goals
Aspirational Goals It was great to hear, from the mouth of Congressional savant Gerry Connolly, (D-VA) that substantive Democratic actions confronting climate change are “aspirational goals”. It makes survival sound like such an elective pleasure: as in should I order the hardtack or the filet mignon? Can I afford to survive? What will this […]
The Greek Dark Age & Climate Change
The Greek Dark Age & Climate Change QUESTION: Mr. Armstrong; You mentioned that the environment was the primary cause of the Greek Dark age between the Heroic and Hellenistic periods. Can you elaborate on that at all? Thank you. They do not seem to connect the dots as you say in school MG ANSWER: What is most interesting […]
The New Politics of Climate Change
The New Politics of Climate Change As climate change accelerates, the political environment will start to boil. It’s happening already. More and more ordinary people are beginning to connect the dots between extreme weather, rising climate related death tolls, collapsing ecosystems, refugee/resource crises, and other grave anomalies. The political outcome of all this will either […]
Scientists Warn World Facing Major Famine, Could “Lead To Severe Shocks To Global Food System”
Scientists Warn World Facing Major Famine, Could “Lead To Severe Shocks To Global Food System” Researchers from Washington State University have published a new report of the Great Drought, the most destructive known drought of the past 800 years – and how it sparked the Global Famine that claimed the lives of 50 million people. The scientists warn […]
UN Climate Change Report: A Choice between “Mad Max and Hunger Games”
UN Climate Change Report: A Choice between “Mad Max and Hunger Games” Humanity, we’re essentially told, is doomed lest people concede their freedom to the experts, lawmakers, and bureaucrats who can save us. The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) this week released a special report detailing all the ways climate change is predicted to […]
The New IPCC Report Offers Climate Solutions That Depend on Magic
THE NEW IPCC REPORT OFFERS CLIMATE SOLUTIONS THAT DEPEND ON MAGIC To solve the crisis, we’d have to slow growth. And no one wants to admit that. (Photo: Roxanne Desgagnés/Unsplash) Over the past couple of decades, climate scientists have warned government leaders that global warming could pose an extinction-level threat to humanity. In response, policymakers […]
Why Economists Can’t Understand Complex Systems: Not Even the Nobel Prize, William Nordhaus
Why Economists Can’t Understand Complex Systems: Not Even the Nobel Prize, William Nordhaus The “base case” scenario of “The Limits to Growth” 1972 report to the Club of Rome. The strong non-linearity of the behavior of complex systems — including the global economy — is nearly impossible to understand for people trained in economics. William […]
Western Civilization No Longer Exists
Western Civilization No Longer Exists Societal Collapse awaits in the wings if climate change and nuclear war don’t finish us off first The Cheney-Bush and Obama regimes destroyed due process, with the result that American citizens were detained in prison indefinitely without evidence and murdered without evidence or trial. In violation of US and international […]
Climate catastrophe: The median is NOT the message
Climate catastrophe: The median is NOT the message Anyone who has followed the climate change issue in the last 30 years knows that official forecasts provided by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) are quickly upended by developments and have often been obsolete before they were issued. The latest report from the IPCC is […]
Climate Crisis is Upon Us
Climate Crisis is Upon Us One of the more useful allusions hidden in plain sight in the recent IPCC / UN report on climate crisis is the distinction between the pre-industrial and industrial ages that defines the era of climate crisis. Industrial capitalism, a/k/a capitalism, is the cause of climate crisis. Plenty of pseudo-scientific rubbish […]
‘Vast Blind Spot’: IPCC Accused of Ignoring ‘Decades Long’ Fossil Fuel Misinformation Campaign on Climate
‘Vast Blind Spot’: IPCC Accused of Ignoring ‘Decades Long’ Fossil Fuel Misinformation Campaign on Climate The United Nations (UN) climate science panel is being accused of ignoring research into fossil fuel-funded misinformation campaigns that have been key to holding back action on global warming. The latest report from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) — an […]
