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The Bulletin: September 3-9, 2025
The Bulletin: September 3-9, 2025 This past week’s articles of interest… CLICK HERE If you’re new to my writing, check out this overview. The Disruptor: William Rees Knows How to Save the World Slow down or die (degrowth, collapse, strategy) Collapse and the Consensus Trance What Happens After Humans Go Extinct How Water Shapes Our […]
40% Surge: Growing Nitrous Oxide Emissions Trigger Scientific Alarm
40% Surge: Growing Nitrous Oxide Emissions Trigger Scientific Alarm Nitrous oxide emissions, largely from agriculture, have increased significantly from 1980 to 2020. Efforts to reduce these emissions are critical as there are no means to remove the gas from the atmosphere, posing risks to climate and environmental health. Over four decades, nitrous oxide emissions have risen sharply, […]
Means of Extinction: Earth is Too Salty
Means of Extinction: Earth is Too Salty I have not produced a video titled Means of Extinction since 30 July 2021. At that point, I had identified six means by which we were rapidly driving ourselves to extinction. Due to the rate of environmental change in our wake, and also the uncontrolled meltdown of nuclear power plants, […]
Buying and selling water is a reality in Alberta — sometimes for big money
Buying and selling water is a reality in Alberta — sometimes for big money Benchmark prices have been set in the water market, but it remains broadly opaque Rising demand, dwindling supply: southern Alberta’s water dilemma As water scarcity intensifies, farmers, cities and businesses in southern Alberta are under pressure to find sustainable water solutions. […]
Is Hunting and Gathering Really Better Than Agriculture?
Is Hunting and Gathering Really Better Than Agriculture? Popcorn Overlook, Lake Burton, Georgia Answering the question of the title of this entry, an article first published 37 years ago written by Jared Diamond says, “YES!” Comprehending precisely why civilization is unsustainable requires a rather extensive knowledge of the technology of agriculture. But it isn’t enough to simply understand agriculture in […]
Open comment post: the AMOC shutdown and the future of agriculture
Open comment post: the AMOC shutdown and the future of agriculture It’s time to move on to pastures new from my Saying NO… book, as I mentioned in my last post. Seems like an opportune moment to try an ‘open comment’ post to signal the change of direction, an idea I trailed at the start of the […]
After Civilization’s Collapse: Dr. Shane Simonsen, Zero Input Agriculture
After Civilization’s Collapse: Dr. Shane Simonsen, Zero Input Agriculture
Agriculture In A Post-Oil Economy
Agriculture In A Post-Oil Economy The decline in the world’s oil supply offers no sudden dramatic event that would appeal to the writer of “apocalyptic” science fiction: no mushroom clouds, no flying saucers, no giant meteorites. The future will be just like today, only tougher. Oil depletion is basically just a matter of overpopulation — […]
How agriculture hastens species extinction
How agriculture hastens species extinction This week on 60 Minutes, correspondent Scott Pelley reports on something scientists are calling the sixth mass extinction. There have been five great die-offs in the history of our planet, when at least 75 percent of the known species disappear. The last mass extinction was 66 million years ago, when an asteroid […]
The third agrarian revolution: from production and consumption to relations
The third agrarian revolution: from production and consumption to relations In the 19th century Swedish agriculture underwent big changes. The earlier agriculture system was founded on a high share of permanent meadows where winter feed for the livestock was harvested. The manure was spread on the arable land where food for humans were grown. During […]
Big agriculture warns farming must change or risk ‘destroying the planet’
Big agriculture warns farming must change or risk ‘destroying the planet’ Food companies and governments must come together immediately to change the world’s agricultural practices or risk “destroying the planet”, according to the sponsors of a report by some of the largest food and farming businesses released on Thursday. Photograph: Jeff McIntosh/AP© Provided by The Guardian […]
Global Water Scarcity on Schedule
Global Water Scarcity on Schedule A new study by the University of Colorado Boulder published on “One Earth” cites water scarcity as the top threat to food security in the next 20 years. “Multiple events occurring at the same time compound the problem,” the study noted, citing droughts, floods, heat waves, pest outbreaks, diseases, and financial and […]
Why every American should care that diesel prices are surging across the country
Why every American should care that diesel prices are surging across the country The cost of diesel fuel impacts truckers and the entire economy. (Photo: JIm Allen/FreightWaves) Gasoline prices are increasing almost daily, pinching the wallets and pocketbooks of nearly all Americans with cars. However, as bad as that news is, diesel prices are surging […]
The Biden administration will pay farmers more money not to farm
The Biden administration will pay farmers more money not to farm iStock/Warren_Price The goal is to add 4 million acres of farmland to the Conservation Reserve Program, which takes land out of production to blunt agriculture’s environmental impact. The Biden administration announced on Wednesday that it would expand a program that pays farmers to leave […]
False Beliefs and Denial
False Beliefs and Denial Sam’s Gap at the Tennessee/North Carolina border I have embarked on quite the journey over the past year. I stepped out of my comfort zone and decided to begin writing this blog. I do enjoy discussing energy and resource decline and climate change, because of the stark implications they present. I’m […]
