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…
Category: Environmental
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…
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…
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…
The Bayer-Monsanto Merger Is Bad News for the Planet
Submitted by: ButtCracker — Two new studies from Europe show that the number of birds in agricultural areas of France has crashed by a third in just 15 years, with some species being almost eradicated. The collapse in the bird…
Junk Planet: Is Earth the Largest Garbage Dump in the Universe?
Submitted by: ButtCracker — Is Earth the largest garbage dump in the Universe? I don’t know. But it’s a safe bet that Earth would be a contender were such a competition to be held. Let me explain why. To start,…
Global Validation
Global Validation
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…
How Trump Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the (Climate) Bomb
Submitted by: ButtCracker — President Donald Trump is poised to eviscerate his predecessor’s legacy on climate change with executive actions as early as this week, even though the world is throwing up increasingly alarming signs of dangerous warning and key…
Death of the Birds and the Bees Across America
First published in 2012. Birds and bees are something most of us take for granted as part of nature. The expression “teaching about the birds and the bees” to explain the process of human reproduction to young people is not…
In Beijing, and Washington, a Breath of Foul Air
The scene in a Beijing park in December. The city’s air quality is routinely rated “very unhealthy.” Credit Wang Zhao/Agence France-Presse — Getty Images When friends cautioned me about Beijing’s notorious air pollution recently, ahead of my first visit there,…
Destruction of the Amazon is speeding up — just when the planet can least afford it
Submitted by: ButtCracker — A tract of Amazon rainforest, cleared by loggers and farmers for agriculture, is seen near the city of Santarem, Para State in 2013. (Reuters/Nacho Doce) Brazil’s National Institute for Space Research, or INPE, released new data on the…
‘The Blob’ Is Back: What Warm Ocean Mass Means for Weather, Wildlife
The blob is back. Since 2014, a mass of unusually warm water has hovered and swelled in the Pacific Ocean off the West Coast of North America, playing havoc with marine wildlife, water quality and the regional weather. Earlier this year,…
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…
Standing Rock Protesters React to Life Under Trump
“America deserves Trump,” says one protester fighting the Dakota Access Pipeline. “America is Trump.” Back in September, many of the protesters at the Standing Rock camp cared little who won the presidential election. “Whoever wins, we’re still going to have…