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Nuclear Fusion: Eternal Energy = Eternal Damnation
Nuclear Fusion: Eternal Energy = Eternal Damnation Like a third rate zombie movie on Netflix, delusions of nuclear fusion repeatedly rise from the dead. The cover story in the June 2023 issue of Scientific American by Philip Ball, “Star Power: Does Fusion Have a Future After All?” recycles the corporate line which was broadcast on December 13, […]
Rush to Mine Electric Vehicle Battery Elements Threatens People and Ecosystems
Rush to Mine Electric Vehicle Battery Elements Threatens People and Ecosystems A creuseur, or digger, climbs through a copper and cobalt mine in Kawama, Democratic Republic of Congo, on June 8, 2016.MICHAEL ROBINSON CHAVEZ / THE WASHINGTON POST VIA GETTY IMAGES / TRUTHOUT Much of the excitement over the Inflation Reduction Act, which became law […]
Are Green Resource Wars Looming?
Are Green Resource Wars Looming? The Burden of Massive EV Batteries Will Be Borne by People and Ecosystems Much of the excitement over the Inflation Reduction Act, which became law this summer, focused on the boost it should give to the sales of electric vehicles. Sadly, though, manufacturing and driving tens of millions of individual […]
To keep fossil carbon out of the air, just stop pulling it out of the Earth
To keep fossil carbon out of the air, just stop pulling it out of the Earth Rick Nease / The Detroit Free Press / MCT Expectations for the COP26 climate summit were always low. They had dimmed even further by the time the prominent climate activist Vanessa Nakate of Uganda spoke from the main stage […]
To keep fossil carbon out of the air, just stop pulling it out of the Earth
To keep fossil carbon out of the air, just stop pulling it out of the Earth Rick Nease / The Detroit Free Press / MCT Expectations for the COP26 climate summit were always low. They had dimmed even further by the time the prominent climate activist Vanessa Nakate of Uganda spoke from the main stage […]
To Keep Fossil Carbon Out of the Air, Just Stop Pulling It Out of the Earth
To Keep Fossil Carbon Out of the Air, Just Stop Pulling It Out of the Earth Expectations for the 2021 COP26 climate summit were always low. They had dimmed even further by the time the prominent climate activist Vanessa Nakate of Uganda spoke from the main stage on the Glasgow conference’s next-to-last day. Nakate chided her audience […]
The Path to a Livable Future Cannot be the Path We’re On
The Path to a Livable Future Cannot be the Path We’re On Stan Cox has pulled off quite a feat with his latest book The Path to a Livable Future: A New Politics to Fight Climate Change, Racism, and the Next Pandemic. In a relaxed, inviting style, Cox sets unorthodox ideas in a persuasive human and environmental […]
The gritty reality of solar power
The gritty reality of solar power Time is fast running out. The world’s affluent nations, with their abundant greenhouse emissions, have to finally drag themselves across the starting line and begin phasing out fossil fuels at the accelerated pace that the climate emergency demands. And if they can manage to do that, they clearly will […]
Rationing. Book review of “Any way you slice it” by Stan Cox
Rationing. Book review of “Any way you slice it” by Stan Cox Preface. I can’t imagine that there’s a better book on rationing out there, but of course I can’t be sure, I don’t feel the need to find others on this topic after reading this book. As usual, I had to leave quite a […]
The Recent History of GDP Growth, CO2 Emissions, and Climate Policy Paralysis, All in One Table-Runner
The Recent History of GDP Growth, CO2 Emissions, and Climate Policy Paralysis, All in One Table-Runner Note: I began designing this table-runner just before the COVID-19 pandemic blew up in the United States. In the time I have been embroidering it, rates of death and misery have soared while wealth generation and carbon emissions (the […]
Now is the time to end the climate emergency
Now is the time to end the climate emergency Reading “The Green New Deal and beyond” in the middle of a global crisis In The Green New Deal and Beyond: Ending the Climate Emergency While We Still Can, Stan Cox has a message for all who were counting on the Green New Deal to help save […]
That Green Growth at the Heart of the Green New Deal? It’s Malignant
That Green Growth at the Heart of the Green New Deal? It’s Malignant A burgeoning save-the-climate effort called the Green New Deal, explains Vox’s David Roberts, “has thrust climate change into the national conversation, put House Democrats on notice, and created an intense and escalating bandwagon effect. … everyone involved in green politics is talking about the […]
That Green Growth at the Heart of the Green New Deal? It’s Malignant
That Green Growth at the Heart of the Green New Deal? It’s Malignant Longview, Washington. Photo: Jeffrey St. Clair. A burgeoning save-the-climate effort called the Green New Deal, explains Vox’s David Roberts, “has thrust climate change into the national conversation, put House Democrats on notice, and created an intense and escalating bandwagon effect. … everyone […]
Perennial Versions of Conventional Crops Offer Benefits to the Environment–But Are They Ready for Prime Time?
PERENNIAL VERSIONS OF CONVENTIONAL CROPS OFFER BENEFITS TO THE ENVIRONMENT — BUT ARE THEY READY FOR PRIME TIME? Crops that don’t need to be planted every year can reduce soil erosion and nutrient runoff, but currently have lower yields. These researchers and businesses are working to fix that. Stan Cox examines the head of a […]
How the world breaks
How the world breaks Stan and Paul Cox describe the destructive force of nature in the context of climate change In May 2006, an eruption of mud began to flow in Sdoarjo Indonesia. With the eruption, 40,000 villagers were displaced and 20 were killed. About a decade after the disaster began, these statues were placed […]
