An Economic Extinction Event & Don’t Count On Biden Changing It July 24, 2020 The lower reaches of the financial food chain are already dying, and every entity that depended on that layer is doomed. Though under pressure from climate…
Category: Climate Change
OLD NORMAL VS. NEW NORMAL
The Bigger Picture is Hiding Behind a Virus By Jonathan Cook April 04, 2020 Things often look the way they do because someone claiming authority tells us they look that way. If that sounds too cynical, pause for a moment…
How To Save The Planet & Ourselves
How To Save The Planet & Ourselves By Chris Hedges November 18, 2019 If you read only one book this year, it should be Roger Hallam’s “Common Sense for the 21st Century: Only Nonviolent Rebellion Can Now Stop Climate Breakdown…
Trump Just Might Be The Catalyst
Why Aren’t Americans Rising Up Like We Are Seeing Across the Planet? By Medea Benjamin and Nicolas J. S. Davies November 16, 2019 The waves of protests breaking out in country after country around the world beg the question: Why…
The Age Of Radical Evil
The Age of Radical Evil By Chris Hedges October 16, 2019 Immanuel Kant coined the term “radical evil.” It was the privileging of one’s own interest over that of others, effectively reducing those around you to objects to be manipulated and…
Child Agent Of Climate Awareness
Greta Thunberg & the Consolation of Doubt By Jonathan Cook October 02, 2019 The more Greta Thunberg articulates the terrifying emotions of awakening to our imminent extinction as a species – as she did, filled with trembling rage, at last…
Trump & The Climate Crisis –A Crime Against Humanity
Trump and the Climate Crisis–A Crime Against Humanity By Mel Gurtov August 27, 2019 The President of the United States is a criminal. I’m not referring to the twenty-odd investigations of him currently underway for violations of the Constitution,…
Collapse Is Already Here
Submitted by: ButtCracker – Many people are expecting some degree of approaching collapse — be it economic, environmental and/or societal — thinking that they’ll recognize the danger signs in time. As if it will be completely obvious, like a Hollywood…
Climate change threatens extinction but politicians only care about next election – Ken Livingstone
Submitted by: ButtCracker — Our top-level politicians should make tackling climate change their utmost priority before it’s too late. But they’re distantly removed from the lives of citizens, and care only about winning the next election. UN chief Antonio Guterres…
Killing the Biosphere to Fast-track Human Extinction
Submitted by: ButtCracker — Several years ago in Cameroon, a country in West Africa, a Western Black Rhinoceros was killed. It was the last of its kind on Earth. Hence, the Western Black Rhinoceros, the largest subspecies of rhinoceros which…
Biological Annihilation on Earth Accelerating? Population Extinctions, Entire Animal Species Destroyed
Submitted by ButtCracker — Human beings are now waging war against life itself as we continue to destroy not just individual lives, local populations and entire species in vast numbers but also destroy the ecological systems that make life on…
ART OF BREAKING THE DEAL
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The great climate silence: we are on the edge of the abyss but we ignore it
Submitted by: ButtCracker — ‘How can we understand the miserable failure of contemporary thinking to come to grips with what now confronts us?’ Photograph: Piyal Adhikary/EPA We continue to plan for the future as if climate scientists don’t exist. The…
‘We’re at most dangerous moment in history of humanity,’ Stephen Hawking warns
Submitted by ButtCracker — The rise of Donald Trump and Britain’s Brexit vote come at “the most dangerous time in the history of the human race,” renowned theoretical physicist Stephen Hawking has warned. Writing in an op-ed for the Guardian newspaper,…
We’re treating soil like dirt. It’s a fatal mistake, as our lives depend on it
War, pestilence, even climate change, are trifles by comparison. Destroy the soil and we all starve Imagine a wonderful world, a planet on which there was no threat of climate breakdown, no loss of freshwater, no antibiotic resistance, no obesity…
Unforeseen Consequences: The Death of Trees
It’s autumn here in the nation’s capital, and that means that in a normal year, trees would be bursting with color, the air would turn crisp, and harvest apples and seasonal apple products would fill store shelves. Except that right…
Court sides with US Forest Service over California bottled water permit
SAN RAFAEL, CA – AUGUST 20: Bottles of Arrowhead water are displayed on a shelf at a convenience store on August 20, 2014 in San Rafael, California. Despite the historic California drought that has left most of State to ration…
The Earth Just Experienced the Hottest Month on the Books. Period.
July 2016 was “the warmest month of any in a data record that can be extended back to the nineteenth century,” according to the U.K.-based Copernicus Climate Change Service (CCCS). Hot enough to fry an egg, they say. (Photo: Jen/cc/flickr)…
State AGs in Exxon Investigation Signed Controversial Legal Agreement
A right-leaning group involved in the legal battle over 17 states’ and territories’ investigations into Exxon Mobil Corp. obtained a legal agreement between the state attorneys general. According to the Energy and Environment Legal Institute, the agreement broadly conceals communications between the states…
U.S.-Europe trade deal promises ‘Climate Armageddon’
The group Friends of the Earth obtained a leaked EU document that details how the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership would kill December’s Paris climate deal by making it harder for the nations to live up to their obligations to…