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Remember What the Climate War Is About
Remember What the Climate War Is About Lately, I’ve been wondering if the battles being fought to maintain federal energy and environment policies and programs are clouding the nation’s collective understanding of what the war being waged against the Trump administration is really about? Before suggesting what it—the metaphorical war of which I write–should be […]
Oceans in Crisis: Gambling With Our Future
OCEANS IN CRISIS: GAMBLING WITH OUR FUTURE The threats posed by climate change and overexploitation of the oceans are already being felt. All will be affected, none more so than the poorest costal and island populations. With the crisis in our oceans and its devastating ecological consequences now abundantly clear, global solutions are needed. Overfishing, rising […]
Everything That Dies Does Not Come Back
Everything That Dies Does Not Come Back Charles Sprague Pearce The Arab jeweler c1882 There are a lot of industries in our world that wreak outsized amounts of havoc. Think the biggest global banks and oil companies. Think plastics. But there is one field that is much worse than all others: agro-chemicals. At some point, […]
The Geological Society of London’s Statement on Climate Change
The Geological Society of London’s Statement on Climate Change A group of geologists have drawn my attention to the 2010/2013 Geological Society of London‘s statement on climate change and asked if I could arrange an on-line discussion about it. The lead author of the statements is Dr Colin Summerhayes who has participated as guest blogger […]
Making It To The 4th Second
Prince Ea Making It To The 4th Second A hard-hitting delivery of the predicament humanity faces Our work here at PeakProsperity.com focuses on raising awareness of the serious challenges facing humanity as we continue to live well beyond our economic, energetic and ecological means. Through the Three Es framework presented in The Crash Course, we’ve […]
We Are All in the Clutches of the Delusion Dragon
We Are All in the Clutches of the Delusion Dragon Image by Jean Arnold, Association for the Tree of Life It’s time to accept that we are not going to dislodge the entrenched interests holding back effective action on looming climate chaos by any means tried so far. Believing that 97% of credible scientists is […]
Climate Change & the 43-Year Cycle
Climate Change & the 43-Year Cycle QUESTION: Dear Martin, I was browsing through the website of NASA and came across a graph (see attachment). It shows the temperature differences between 1880 and 2012. As far as I can see there seems to be a +/- 40-year cycle. I have edited it with the red vertical lines. […]
The world needs less from us (and more) (by Tim Crownshaw)
The world needs less from us (and more) (by Tim Crownshaw) Ghosts Of The Concrete World by Cameron Gray (parablevisions.com) Around two decades ago, scientists began seriously discussing the prospects and suitability of geoengineering as a response to climate change. The options which have the potential to make a difference over a short timeframe revolve […]
Climate Crisis Clobbers Trump Denials
Climate Crisis Clobbers Trump Denials Harken! A Trump appointee agrees that climate change is not a hoax. Granted, that is unimaginable, but it is the real thing. An ongoing climate crisis in America’s Southwest brings this rare specimen into the limelight. The climate crisis star of the year is Brenda Burman, commissioner of The Bureau […]
What goes up must come down: It’s time for a carbon drawdown budget
What goes up must come down: It’s time for a carbon drawdown budget There is no carbon budget left for 1.5°C climate warming target, which means that to achieve this outcome every tonne of emissions must be matched by a tonne of drawdown of atmospheric carbon from now on. For that reason, carbon budgets and […]
Only ‘collective intelligence’ can help us stave off an uninhabitable planet
Only ‘collective intelligence’ can help us stave off an uninhabitable planet Humanity needs new tools to overcome the global crisis of collective insanity Published by INSURGE intelligence, a crowdfundedinvestigative journalism platform for people and planet. Support us to report where others fear to tread. The world faces an unprecedented convergence of crises. The ecological crisis, which […]
Climate Change 10-Year Check-Up
Climate Change 10-Year Check-Up Ten years ago Kevin J. Surace delivered a fascinating TED talk entitled “Worst Case Climate Change.” Based upon credits at the end of his speech, data for his talk came from the following sources: – Fred Pearce, With Speed and Violence: Why Scientists Fear – Tipping Points in Climate Change (Beacon […]
The National Forests Should be Off Limits to Logging
The National Forests Should be Off Limits to Logging Photograph Jeff Gunn | CC BY 2.0 Logging, conducted ostensibly to “thin the forest,” “reduce fuels” or for so-called “restoration,” causes a net loss of carbon from forest ecosystems. One of the best strategies for reducing CO2 levels is by protecting our forests. Yet few environmental […]
Societal Death or Transfiguration? Cinema Visions of Humanity Facing Extinction
Societal Death or Transfiguration? Cinema Visions of Humanity Facing Extinction Still from “Downsizing.” How should world society respond to the approach of human extinction compelled by implacable external forces, such as: radioactive fallout after a global nuclear war (as in Nevil Shute’s novel On the Beach), or an alien invasion by a species of technologically […]
