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A Mining Explosion: The Dirty Little Secret Of The Green Revolution
A Mining Explosion: The Dirty Little Secret Of The Green Revolution Leftwing darling Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s proposed Green New Deal, despite its flimsy 14 pages total, is nothing if not all-encompassing and vaulting in its ambition. The bill was also crucial to Ocasio-Cortez’s rapid ascent to acronym status and anointing as the queen of green. Thanks […]
Getting Real About Green Energy: An honest analysis of what it CAN’T promise
Getting Real About Green Energy: An honest analysis of what it CAN’T promise I want to be optimistic about the future. I really do. But there’s virtually no chance of the world transitioning gently to an alternative energy-powered future. These Are The ‘Good Old Days’ I’m often asked where I stand on wind, solar and […]
Degrowth: Toward a Green Revolution
Degrowth: Toward a Green Revolution The Americanism that people will never voluntarily give up the consumption that is killing the planet represents the triumph of a long con. The problem that consumed (apologies) economists in the early twentieth century was how to get people to want the stuff that capitalism produces. Past the point of […]
Agrarian Crisis: Father of Green Revolution in India Rejects GM Crops as Farmers Demand Justice in Delhi
Agrarian Crisis: Father of Green Revolution in India Rejects GM Crops as Farmers Demand Justice in Delhi Genetically modified (GM) cotton in India is a failure. India should reject GM mustard. And like the Green Revolution, GM agriculture poses risks and is unsustainable. Regulatory bodies are dogged by incompetency and conflicts of interest. GM crops […]
GREEN Foundation is Reversing Negative Effects of the Green Revolution
GREEN Foundation is Reversing Negative Effects of the Green Revolution The GREEN Foundation is working to slow the rate of farmer suicides in India and improve conditions for farmers—especially women—whose traditional agricultural methods were stripped away by the Green Revolution. A 20th-century push by Western agronomists to decrease hunger in developing nations, the Green Revolution […]
Earth Overshoot: How Sustainable is Population Growth?
Earth Overshoot: How Sustainable is Population Growth? For decades people have been predicting overpopulation would wipe out energy resources if not the entire planet. Every year the population bomb and peak oil crowd have been proven wrong. But how long can the status quo of generating growth by population explosion last? Every year the population bomb […]
Greece and Global Class War
Greece and Global Class War Then By 2008 the neoliberal project that had been propelled by bullshit, wishful thinking and copious quantities of bank money freed from any pretense that it could ever be repaid was coming unwound. The same ‘favor’ that American mortgage lenders had done communities of color and exurbs in the U.S. […]
Plenty of trouble: Feeding a climate changed world after peak oil
Plenty of trouble: Feeding a climate changed world after peak oil Nothing is more precious than balance, stability, and sustainability. Today, we’re hanging by our fingernails to a skyrocket of intense insane change, and it’s the only way of life we’ve ever known. Joel Bourne has spent his life riding the rocket. He grew up on […]
Twenty-Three Geniuses
Twenty-Three Geniuses If there is a Pulitzer Booby Prize for stupidity, waste no time in awarding it to The New York Times’ Monday feature, The Unrealized Horrors of Population Explosion. The former “newspaper of record” wants us to assume now that the sky’s the limit for human activity on the planet earth. Problemo cancelled. The article and […]
The Inconvenient Truth About A Green Revolution
The Inconvenient Truth About A Green Revolution “Green energy is the future!” “Green energy will create tens of thousands of new jobs!” Statements like these have become the new mantra for green energy advocates even as fossil fuel emissions have fallen dramatically thanks at least in part to the rise of natural gas. Fossil fuel emissions today […]
GRAIN — Right to land and seed
GRAIN — Right to land and seed. “Food sovereignty” is the main political demand of the landless and peasant movement in Bangladesh in times of climate change and intensifying land conflicts. The concept of food sovereignty is based on the right to grow their own food, with own seeds and in an ecologically sustainable way […]
Green Revolution Trebles Human Burden on Planet – Truthdig
Green Revolution Trebles Human Burden on Planet – Truthdig. LONDON—Humans are changing not just climate overall, but also the difference between seasons in any given year. Researchers in the US believe they now know why global warming has begun to announce itself both in annual rises in temperature and in the seasonal records of carbon […]
