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Plastic Recycling Is a Disaster and a ‘Myth,’ Report Says
Plastic Recycling Is a Disaster and a ‘Myth,’ Report Says Greenpeace warns in a new report that we’ve wasted decades and billions of dollars pretending single-use plastic recycling is feasible or desirable. JUSTIN SULLIVAN / STAFF VIA GETTY IMAGES A new report from Greenpeace USA paints a dire picture for recycling efforts in the United States: They’ve fundamentally failed. […]
Rex Weyler: Why is the political process so slow to respond to our ecological crisis?
Rex Weyler: Why is the political process so slow to respond to our ecological crisis? Preface. Rex Weyler is one of the co-founders of Greenpeace in Canada, a brilliant ecologist and journalist, and more. His blog is here: https://www.rexweyler.ca/greenpeace *** Rex Wyler. September 2021. Ecological crisis: Might as well speak the truth Why is the political process […]
The decline of oil has already begun
The decline of oil has already begun In 1961, when I was 14, working on a science fair project, my father – a geologist and petroleum engineer – explained oil depletion to me. To grow production, oil companies were drilling deeper and deeper wells, developing technologies to extract more oil from spent fields, and would […]
Climate Campaigners Say ‘Listen to the Science’ as New Study Shows Earth Now Warmer Than Any Time in Last 12,000 Years
Climate Campaigners Say ‘Listen to the Science’ as New Study Shows Earth Now Warmer Than Any Time in Last 12,000 Years The study “changes the baseline and emphasizes just how critical it is to take our situation seriously,” its lead researcher said. A new study published in the journal Nature shows the Earth is now hotter than […]
GREEN ENERGY DOUBLE-TALK BEGINS: First Major Oil Producer Announces Deadline to End Oil Extraction, But There’s A Catch
GREEN ENERGY DOUBLE-TALK BEGINS: First Major Oil Producer Announces Deadline to End Oil Extraction, But There’s A Catch According to the Washington Post article published yesterday, Denmark was the first major oil-producing country to announce a deadline to end oil extraction. While this may sound like a “Victory” for the Green Energy Movement, there’s a […]
The decline of oil has already begun
The decline of oil has already begun In 1961, when I was 14, working on a science fair project, my father – a geologist and petroleum engineer – explained oil depletion to me. To grow production, oil companies were drilling deeper and deeper wells, developing technologies to extract more oil from spent fields, and would […]
Food sovereignty now and beyond COVID-19
Food sovereignty now and beyond COVID-19 COVID-19 has changed daily realities in nearly every corner of the world. But for millions of people, fears about access to food have made the crisis even worse. Recently the UN warned of disruption to food supplies and further loss of incomes and livelihoods – up to 1.6 billion workers affected in the […]
Oilsands Firms ‘Morally Responsible’ for Deaths and Destruction from Climate Disasters
Oilsands Firms ‘Morally Responsible’ for Deaths and Destruction from Climate Disasters Greenpeace’s Yeb Saño explains what a Philippines human rights investigation means for the fossil fuel industry in Canada. Four years ago, the Philippines Commission on Human Rights began posing an incendiary question. Should 47 of the planet’s most polluting companies have to answer legally for the […]
Screw the Pooch
Screw the Pooch I first asked Dr. D. a few years ago if I could turn one one his comments at the Automatic Earth into an essay. The following illustrates why I asked. Not sure he understands why some of his rants stand out while others do not, but they certainly do. Go to the […]
Global Warming A “Hoax And Scam” Pushed By Greedy Government Scientists: Greenpeace Co-Founder
Global Warming A “Hoax And Scam” Pushed By Greedy Government Scientists: Greenpeace Co-Founder The co-founder and former president of Greenpeace, Patrick Moore, says that climate change is a “complete hoax and scam,” which has been “taking over science with superstition and a kind of toxic combination of religion and political ideology.” Moore, who recently made […]
What can we do?
What can we do? Rainbow over the Tapajós River in the Amazon © Todd Southgate / Greenpeace At the University of Minnesota Dr. Nate Hagens teaches an honours course called “Reality 101: A Survey of the Human Predicament.” Hagens operated his own hedge fund on Wall Street until he glimpsed, “a serious disconnect between capitalism, growth, and […]
What can we do?
What can we do? At the University of Minnesota Dr. Nate Hagens teaches an honours course called “Reality 101: A Survey of the Human Predicament.” Hagens operated his own hedge fund on Wall Street until he glimpsed, “a serious disconnect between capitalism, growth, and the natural world. Money did not appear to bring wealthy clients […]
Trade Deals and the Environmental Crisis
Trade Deals and the Environmental Crisis With the release of leaked documents from the TTIP (Trans-Atlantic Trade and Investment Partnership) ‘trade’ deal Greenpeace framed its conclusions more diplomatically than I will: the actions of the U.S. political leadership undertaken at the behest of American corporate ‘leaders’ and their masters in the capitalist class make it among the […]
TTIP—American Economic Imperialism
TTIP—American Economic Imperialism Greenpeace has done that part of the world whose representatives are so corrupt or so stupid as to sign on to the Trans-Pacific and Trans-Atlantic “partnerships” a great service. Greenpeace secured and leaked the secret TTIP documents that Washington and global corporations are pushing on Europe. The official documents prove that my […]
Five Years After Fukushima, ‘No End in Sight’ to Ecological Fallout
Five Years After Fukushima, ‘No End in Sight’ to Ecological Fallout The environmental impacts of the 2011 Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster are already becoming apparent, according to a new analysis from Greenpeace Japan, and for humans and other living things in the region, there is “no end in sight” to the ecological fallout. The report warns that […]
