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Hollow Promises and Ugly Unspoken Realities

21 Monday Dec 2015

Posted by xraymike79 in Capitalism, Climate Change, Consumerism, Corporate State, Ecological Overshoot, Empire, Environmental Degradation, Inequality, Military Industrial Complex, Peak Oil, Pollution

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Another climate conference has once again come and gone, echoing hollow promises and ugly unspoken realities. I won’t waste anyone’s time analyzing the verbiage of this so-called agreement which failed to even mention the term fossil fuels, probably at the behest of those who financed the entire farce, i.e. the carbon-extraction companies. Suffice it to say that countries were approving fossil fuel exploration projects before the ink of the global climate agreement had fully dried. As long as corporations are able to push environmental and social costs off their balance sheets and onto the backs of the weak and defenseless, dirty coal will be burnt and the cheapest slave labor will be employed. Questioning root causes like our inherently unsustainable way of life is still very much taboo and will remain so even after our descendants are sifting through the wreckage. Sure, mainstream publications have expanded their coverage of man-made climate change and global warming, but these existential threats to life on Earth remain an enigma to the vast majority, a footnote in some obscure textbook.

Retailers on the East Coast talk about a crisis for winter clothing sales because the weather has been too unseasonably warm to attract buyers, but nary a mention of man’s role in influencing these abnormal events, such as a super El Niño amplified by global warming. As the developed world continues to roll the climate chaos dice, we now face a higher chance of turbo-charged El Niños every 4 to 12 years and all the destruction that they bring —mass coral bleaching events, die-offs of marine mammals, record flooding and drought, crop failure and famine, refugee crises, etc. This year’s El Niño is on track to becoming the strongest on record with meteorologist Eric Holthaus exclaiming, “Our planet’s climate has undergone a step-change this year.”:

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This climate “step-change” may also be indicative of a considerable underestimation of the Earth’s climate sensitivity. What should be painfully obvious by now is that the carbon footprint for everyone will have to decrease dramatically and quickly in order to slow emissions. In other words, the world’s richest will have to radically alter their lifestyles. That’s never going to happen in any variant of capitalism, a system so entrenched that it is inconceivable to imagine anything substantially different taking its place. Instead we get things like corporate greenwashing, carbon trading, decades of climate conferences, First World offshoring of manufacturing emissions into the Third World, and out-and-out fraud like the VW auto emissions scandal. The problem has been identified for nearly half a century, yet we continue to deceive ourselves with half-baked solutions and hypocritical indignation. The inertia of the system is simply too great and the dominant culture has a tendency to kill the messenger of bad news, so there is a strong incentive to sugarcoat things, but a deus ex machina is nowhere on the horizon. We’ll only change in response to the hard realities from an increasingly inhospitable planet. Sunken costs and material incentives built into our socio-economic system prevent radical change and fetishize the myth of the easy techno-fix, a yet-to-be-invented technology that will magically sustain modern civilization while at the same time keep the wolves of ecological collapse at bay. Even more delusional, a prominent tech magnate has urged humanity to pursue interstellar colonization before we render the Earth uninhabitable, but as an internet commenter quipped, “A post-nuclear war, global warming-baked and hyper polluted Earth will still be paradise compared to Mars.” Some technophiles admit the future actually looks rather grim:

…But the most worrisome threats are not merely anthropogenic, they’re technogenic. They arise from the fact that advanced technologies are (a) dual-use in nature, meaning that they can be employed for both benevolent and nefarious purposes; (b) becoming more powerful, thereby enabling humans to manipulate and rearrange the physical world in new ways; and (c) in some cases, becoming more accessible to small groups, including, at the limit, single individuals…

Just as technology is not neutral, so too is the economic system driving this technology. The institution of capitalism, which has been copied and exported all over the world since WW II, has established widespread acceptance for the condition of mass production, mass consumption, and waste at an ever accelerating rate, pushing the world deeper and deeper into ecological crisis. For example, the ubiquity of plastics now exhibits itself as microscopic pieces on every beach in the world and in our dinner with trillions more pieces in the oceans than previously thought. Scientists estimate that nearly all sea birds will be ingesting some sort of plastic by 2050. In spite of this growing evidence of a plasticised planet, the production of plastics has only increased while recycling remains an effort in futility:

For more than 50 years, global production of plastic has continued to rise. Some 299 million tons of plastics were produced in 2013, representing a 3.9 percent increase over 2012’s output. With a market driven by consumerism and convenience, along with the comparatively low price of plastic materials, demand for plastic is growing. Recovery and recycling, however, remain insufficient, and millions of tons of plastics end up in landfills and oceans each year – link

There’s no going back from this global complexity trap we’ve built around ourselves. All those bits of plastic will end up in the sedimentary layer of the Anthropocene along with elevated concentrations of CO2, radionuclides from nuclear fallout and waste, as well as novel metals and pollutants never before seen. Once underway, mass extinctions cannot be reversed, especially when driven by over seven billion pleasure-seeking, individualistic “consumers”. Materialism and greed, we are told, are natural human instincts, and they are all too eagerly rewarded by an economic system which reduces everything to a financial object and monetizes every aspect of the natural world. Today’s environmentalism is, as Derrick Jensen pointed out, similar to the palliative care given to prisoners in Nazi Germany death camps. The emaciated ecological ghosts of so many species are right before us, yet nearly everyone is blind to the unfolding catastrophe of the 6th mass extinction:

…we lose a huge chunk of the world’s diversity that will never come back. We lose the potential for communication with other lifeforms, with the only remaining ones eventually whittled down to domesticated animals or weed species that thrive in civilized man’s destructive footsteps. The conversation of life itself is turning into small talk, but the only recognition that seems to be made by this culture is how [biodiversity loss] “reduces carbon storage”. How trees and animals can provide “ecosystem services”, as if they existed for nothing more than to continue the existence of the mad king ape. – pathofraven

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Yes, we are pretty far gone when a four minute comedy routine makes more sense than anything broadcasted on the evening news. Corporate mass media-controlled public debates have degenerated into infomercial sound bites. In a society where success is measured by the key metrics of money and profit, it should be no surprise that a wealthy, xenophobic businessman is able to garner mass appeal by hogging publicity and playing on the fears and base desires of the populus. “Make America Great Again” is a catchy slogan for a society ignorant of the collapsing world around them and oblivious to the over-consumptive, profligate way of life that is proving to be their undoing. For a celebrity-obsessed culture whose world is falling apart, the next logical choice for its leader would seem to be a reality TV show star who says he can restore the illusion of the American dream and build a great wall to keep all the riff-raff out.

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A fascist right-wing administration might just provide that extra push that takes us all over the edge into collapse. With the Presidency largely serving as a figurehead position for the Deep State, I’m not convinced a different candidate would make a measurable difference in the grand scheme of things anyway. Our “democracy” is, after all, just one more illusion in a bread-and-circus election cycle:

“Today, we must look to the city of Las Vegas, Nevada, as a metaphor of our national character and aspiration, its symbol a thirty-foot-high cardboard picture of a slot machine and a chorus girl. For Las Vegas is a city entirely devoted to the idea of entertainment, and as such proclaims the spirit of a culture in which all public discourse increasingly takes the form of entertainment. Our politics, religion, news, athletics, education and commerce have been transformed into congenial adjuncts of show business, largely without protest or even much popular notice. The result is that we are a people on the verge of amusing ourselves to death.” – Neil Postman, Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business

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So while terrorism takes center stage in the overstretched Empire of Amnesia, remember this simple fact: 303 Americans were killed in terrorist attacks worldwide in the last decade while 320,523 Americans were killed because of gun violence in that same time period. Random mass shootings, capitalism’s “free market” genocides, the disruption of the Holocene’s stable climate regime by anthropogenic climate disruption, tipping points in the earth’s biosphere, terminal industrial disease, and many other things come to mind that pose a much bigger danger to the average American, but the War on Terror, conceived as open-ended, serves as a conveniently omnipresent boogieman for jerking the chain of the taxpayer and justifying the growth of an intrusive security state. What better way to control the masses as the wheels continue coming off the global economy and the biosphere becomes evermore threadbare. The rich will retreat into their luxury spider holes until the coast is clear.

Paradise Lost and Future Pending

28 Tuesday Oct 2014

Posted by xraymike79 in Capitalism, Climate Change, Consumerism, Corporate State, Ecological Overshoot, Environmental Degradation, Inequality, Neo-Colonialism, Pollution

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6th Mass Extinction, Abrupt Climate Change, Anthropogenic Climate Disruption (ACD), California Drought, Capitalism, Cold Fusion, Dr. Erik Pianka, Extinction of Man, Fracking Chemicals Contaminating Groundwater, Global Famine, Greenhouse Gases, Materialism, Oscar Wilde, Techno-Utopians

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The following video message is from Dr. Erik Pianka, an esteemed American biologist, one of the world’s most accomplished field ecologists, and author of the classic 1983 book Evolutionary Ecology. This video was made roughly four years ago. Not much has changed in the interim other than everything getting progressively worse —more people, more cars, more garbage landfills, more greenhouse gas emissions, more ocean acidification, more extinctions, etc…

To save the habitability of the Earth, many enlightened environmentalists and thinkers have proposed a radical but simple solution which calls for a reconfiguration of modern society into a much lower energy-intensive way of life with food production localized and resources socialized —just the opposite of what is now happening in our no-holds-barred global capitalist system. However, the time for a transition was decades ago before we had gone so far into overshoot that world powers are now scrambling to lay claim to the melting Arctic, carving up Africa for its land and water while unleashing a pandemic, and contaminating the dwindling aquifers with fracking waste. Our so-called leaders are too busy constructing an omnipresent spying Panopticon to bother noticing the gathering storm of climatic hellfire and brimstone. When harsh reality finally assert itself, such human folly will have created unfathomable catastrophes.

Not many have given much thought to how America will feed itself after the collapse of California’s agriculture industry is complete:

Farming is never going to go back, regardless of how much rain we get next year, to the way it was in the ’70s and ’80s. It’s a long-term era of scarcity.

California is much bigger than it was when these reservoirs were built, 40 or 50 years ago. There’s more water going to cities and the environment now. That boom era of California farming, I think everyone recognizes, is just a thing of the past.

They used to flood-irrigate everything here. When I was a kid, growing up, you’d walk outside in the middle of summer, six or seven months since the last rain, and it would be humid outside because there’d be so much irrigation going on. You hardly ever see anything flood-irrigated anymore. That time, that’s just not coming back.

The solution is not the techno-utopian fantasy of cold fusion. Even if cold fusion was a realistic possibility, the creation of unlimited amounts of ultra-cheap energy wielded in the hands of techno-capitalist man would surely spell disaster for any last vestiges of life that might have survived the omnicide of capitalist industrial civilization and the age of fossil fuels. A good steward of the Earth’s resources and web of life would never have perpetuated the 6th mass extinction and defiled the planet that gave birth to his kind while arrogantly naming himself Homo sapiens (Latin: “Wise man”).

Capitalist carbon man acted like a bull in a china shop, throwing his weight around and blindly destroying everything in his path. Now he wants to invent even more disruptive tools with which to save himself from the very techno-nightmare that he has already created? He treated the biosphere like a buyosphere, and money was his God. His epitaph was inscribed long ago by Oscar Wilde who perceptively said, “They know the price of everything and the value of nothing.”

Tragically, humans had their chance in a magnificent paradise and they blew it in spades.

Destroy the World

21 Tuesday Jan 2014

Posted by xraymike79 in Climate Change, Corporate State, Ecological Overshoot, Environmental Degradation, Pollution

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As mankind spirals towards its own self-manufactured demise, I look with a jaundiced eye at daily events in the news and at the bread-and-circus infotainment that fills the American hologram. The mass media is replete with misinformation on the state of the world, so I wasn’t too surprised by the recent words of wisdom(sarcasm) from Kathleen White (Distinguished Senior Fellow-in-Residence & Director, Armstrong Center for Energy & the Environment); nevertheless, I felt compelled to set aside a partially completed essay on capitalism and technology in order to express some of my thoughts about White’s essay on the benefits of fossil fuels to humanity:

“…Fossils fuels also augment food supply. Fertilizer derived from natural gas has increased agricultural productivity by 40-60 percent. According to economist Indur Goklany, without fossil fuels, an area equivalent to U.S., Canada, and India combined would have to be converted into crop land to meet global food demand. Fossil fuel-based fertilizer, pesticides, and mechanized substitutes for animal power have saved vast natural ecosystems from conversion to cropland. And the increased atmospheric concentration of man-made CO2 has enhanced plant growth.”

[You fail to consider that without fossil fuels, mankind would not have been enabled to overpopulate the planet to such a degree as to require so much farmland. You also fail to say that the negatives of climate change swamp (no pun intended) any supposed benefits of a warming planet. As we are already seeing, the effects of epic droughts and floods are wreaking havoc on farmers. Good luck trying to move the agricultural industry northward where the soils are extremely poor. Famine and mass extinction are the inevitable outcome of industrial civilization’s destabilizing activities on the planet.]

“Although combustion of fossil fuels releases pollutants, that environmental damage can, and is, undergoing dramatic reversal far quicker than could the conversion of natural ecosystems to croplands. The prosperity supported by fossil fuel energy allows investment in effective technologies to reduce and eliminate harmful pollution.”

[CO2 and other GHG levels are increasing every year, having gone parabolic in the last 100 years. This reality paints a bleak picture for the future of humanity. Far from being mitigated, environmental damage is accelerating everywhere one looks from the acidification of the oceans to the die-off of forests and jungles. The simple fact is that renewable energy cannot replace fossil fuel based energy at the rate the world is consuming, as European actions have recently indicated. Only a wholesale reconfiguration of the economy and our way of life will enable solutions to the environmental crisis. Rather than taking this courageous and self-reflective approach, society is putting its proverbial head in the sand concerning climate change. The public already finds the subject of climate change difficult enough to understand without having to wade through a constant onslaught of misleading articles such as yours.]

“Renewable energy still provides a sliver of global demand. Despite the billions of dollars in subsidies, retail prices are still 2-3 times higher than fossil fuels. Renewable energy from wind and solar remain diffuse, intermittent and parasitic on fossil fuels for back-up. Nuclear fission provides energy comparable or superior to fossil fuels, but the public remains resistant to broad use.”

[Yes, capitalist industrial civilization cannot be run on renewables so that is why we need to be talking about powering down and living within the carrying capacity of the planet rather than maintaining the status quo. Nuclear has the little problem of making vast swaths of the planet uninhabitable from radiation contamination, as evidenced by such catastrophes as Chernobyl and Fukushima. Nuclear energy also leaves behind tons of radioactive waste that must be stored away for thousands of years. These sort of factors tend to scare the public. With global sea levels rising and storms becoming more destructive, the world’s nuclear plants, which are mostly situated along waterways and oceans for coolant purposes, are in jeopardy. Get it?]

“Energy-dense, abundant, imperishable, versatile, reliable, portable and affordable, fossil fuels provide 85 percent of the world’s energy because they are superior to the current alternatives. And hundreds of millions still await the benefits of affordable energy. Until energy sources comparable or superior to fossil fuels are fully available, policies to reduce emissions of CO2 should proceed with caution lest they prematurely jettison the well-springs of mankind’s greatest advance — the blessings of which literally light up the holiday season.”

[The “well-springs of mankind’s greatest advance” are soon to be jettisoned into the dustbin of history and extinction as we have already tripped multiple tipping points in the earth’s biosphere such as the Polar ice melt and many others. Hundreds of millions will never experience the energy-intensive lifestyles of developed countries since climate chaos will put a halt to human expansion within this century. Fossil fuels have allowed industrial civilization to far overshoot the environment; for the rest of the world to live like Americans, we would need more than 4 Earths.]

The Silence of Extinction

22 Monday Jul 2013

Posted by xraymike79 in Capitalism, Climate Change, Consumerism, Corporate State, Ecological Overshoot, Empire, Environmental Degradation, Peak Oil, Pollution

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In a small way the plight of the British in 1940 resembles the state of the civilised world now. At that time we had had nearly a decade of the well-intentioned, but quite wrong belief that peace was all that mattered. The followers of the peace lobbies of the 1930s resembled the green lobbies now, their intentions were more than good, but wholly inappropriate for the war that was about to start.”

~ James Lovelock, The Vanishing face of Gaia
(quoted in ‘the end of more’)

Year 2013

In the early years of the twenty-first century, reports from the global scientific community started to take on a more dire tone as Arctic amplification melted the ice sheets and glaciers of the North Pole, deformed the jet stream, and altered oceanic currents. The Arctic treeline marched northward gaining footholds in land now unlocked from its frozen slumber. Animals, insects, viruses, and pathogens, which were driven by the warming planet to migrate northward, wreaked havoc on native species. Heatwaves also became more common in the lower latitudes where the bulk of humanity lived. Seasonal transitions became less gradual and more abrupt. Extremes of weather, flood and drought, started to occur more frequently and with greater destructive force. Perhaps the only business of Homo economicus to speak candidly about the reality of climate change was the insurance industry only because its business model could not hide or externalize the high costs of climate chaos. Humans had built their entire global civilization and profligate lifestyle upon the burning of rich, energy-dense fossil fuels. To change the course of this behemoth ship was well beyond the scope of any one nation or group of people. Talk of modern civilization running on so-called renewable energy ignored the fact that such alternative sources were only extenders of the faltering fossil fuel age, and such a transition was too late anyway. The seeds of our downfall had been sown over a century ago when man accepted the Faustian bargain of exploiting carbon-based energy whose power came with the price of a wrecked planet. The marketing ploys of “green” and “organic” were no fix for the unstoppable wave of eco-destruction unleashed by disaster capitalism. The leaders of all countries knew there was no politically viable way to stem the human population explosion which was also at the root of the ecological crisis.

We have become Vishnu and Shiva, the ancient Hindu gods of creation and destruction: As we create more of us, far more than we now understand the planet can sustain, we are creating our own destruction, both terrible and beautiful. Our scientists, exploring the frontiers of our knowledge of the world, have gathered enough data for us to understand that our consumption and proliferation have set in motion a planetary change in our relatively comfortable envelope of climate.

~ Mary Ellen Harte

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Year 2047

In the last few decades the climate of the Earth had defied all the overly conservative, human-centric estimates that were designed to maintain the suicidal path of business-as-usual. Of course most scientists were shocked at the rapidity with which the climate had spiraled out of control. Nations which were the major producers of the world’s food soon halted exports in order to feed their own frightened and hungry populations and stave off revolt. Those countries heavily reliant on imports for their sustenance quickly devolved into anarchy and killing fields. Politicians were the first to be done away with, drawn and quartered with their heads placed on spikes. The thin veneer of civilization dissolved under the brutal reality of power outages, food riots, and climate chaos. Some countries with nuclear plants suffered Fukushima-like meltdowns due to the loss of their power grid while others, who were able to keep a lid on the disaster by maintaining electrical power under a state of marshal law, carried out accelerated decommissioning of their reactors. Nevertheless, with the collapse of the electric grid large swaths of the Earth were rendered uninhabitable by leaking radiation and toxic rain. The sudden downward spiral of civilization was also punctuated by the detonation of a few nuclear bombs in countries like Pakistan where arsenals had fallen into the hands of radical groups. In the eyes of the believers, Armageddon had finally arrived.

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Year 2087

For hundreds of miles north and south of the equator a death zone of searing heat, barren land, dry riverbeds, and lifeless ocean encircled the Earth, but a few places at the poles still held small pockets of human communities who practiced subsistence farming and fishing as well as the art of scavenging technology from the past. Even though the rusted steal hulks of factories, cars, airliners, ships, and other relics of CO2-spewing industrialization now lay motionless in fields of tall grass or at the bottom of the ocean, the effects of the CO2/methane bomb unleashed by modern man would last for millennia. Sea level rise and the chaotic weather of the planet had displaced all the elaborate infrastructure that had been built to take advantage of once predictable growing seasons, fertile soils, and river systems. Gaia had pulled the rug out from under man leaving him scampering for cover like bugs from beneath an overturned rock, and there was nowhere to run. The few humans who presently eked out an existence at the poles were simply the flotsam and jetsam of the great collapse. The coddled elite who had actually planned for this eco-apocalypse committed suicide long ago when their stash of fine wine ran out and their gold had no value to anyone.

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Year 2127

The sound of human voices no longer filled the air. As a matter of fact, the sound of any living thing had vanished. Nearly all the monuments of human achievement and ingenuity had crumbled away like sand castles before a rising tide. Only a few ancient relics still stood like the pyramids in Egypt and long segments of the Great Wall of China. Not much remained of the “disposable society” of modern times except for a few large construction projects such as Hoover Dam. Repossession on the humans was the only option Gaia had for a species that had built up mountains of environmental damage with no intention of ever changing its omnicidal ways. The slate had to be wiped clean before the slow, million year process of remediation could begin…

Vast, flat expanses of viscous ooze, unbroken by waves, covered all of what once were vibrant oceans. Great belches of toxic hydrogen sulfide would occasionally break the calm of these oily, purple-colored plains stretching far into the horizon. The deadness of the these poisonous waters was mirrored by the stillness on the land which now was exposed to the full forces of UV radiation through a destroyed ozone layer. High overhead, thin wisps of clouds slowly moved along a pale green sky. A fetid, noxious smell filled the air and the silence of extinction was everywhere.

Industrializing and Capitalizing Our Way Into Extinction

16 Tuesday Jul 2013

Posted by xraymike79 in Capitalism, Climate Change, Corporate State, Ecological Overshoot, Environmental Degradation, Pollution

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Capitalism, Climate Change, Collapse of Industrial Civilization, Consumerism, Corporate State, Ecological Overshoot, Environmental Collapse, Extinction of Man, Factory Farming, Financial Elite, Global Famine, Herbicide-Resistant Weeds, Loss of Biodiversity, Mass Die Off, Monoculture Farming, Nature Deficit Disorder, Pesticide-Resistant Pests, S. Roy Kaufman, Super Weeds

Perhaps the most critical area in which industrial civilization has disconnected itself from nature is food production. Ask a city dweller where his food comes from and he’ll give you the name of a grocery store chain. Of course they know the food is produced somewhere outside the concrete jungle, but exactly where, by whom, and how are questions no one asks. And for the masses who are busy eking out a living on the treadmill of capitalism, the convenience of “fast food” often trumps all other considerations. The giant food manufacturers have spent considerable time tinkering with the three ingredients of sugar, salt, and fat in their processed food so as to reach a “bliss-point” for hooking the “consumer”. Thus in the process of commodifying, commercializing, and mass marketing our meals, we have lost the connection to nature fostered by food grown on a small-scale, sustainable manner. Nature Deficit Disorder appears to be rampant. As S. Roy Kaufman explains, industrialized food production has destroyed the human bond to the land:

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Is “economy of scale and efficiency” really the best thing to pursue on the only planet humans have to live on? It turns out that in our quest to feed the most people at the lowest price, we have externalized a lot of costs which are now coming back to bite us in the ass. For example, bee pollination is priceless, but we are killing these insects off with our chemical pesticides and herbicides. The same goes for other plants, animals, and microbes which support the natural processes required to keep the land productive. As these creatures disappear from the landscape, we lose known and unknown ‘environmental services’ beneficial to man and the ecosystem. Industrial farming is a heavy user of CO2-emitting fossil fuels and contributes to a large percentage of the global warming we are experiencing. Biodiversity loss and destruction of crop yields are an inevitable consequence of a warming planet, even right down to the soil microbes. Pesticide and fertilizer run-off is polluting streams and rivers as well as creating massive dead zones in the ocean.

In the past century alone, over 50 per cent of the world’s wetlands have been lost because of the demands of agriculture. And of the more than 3500 species currently under threat worldwide, 25 per cent are fish and amphibians. – link

Industrial agriculture destroys biodiversity not only because it wipes out entire ecosystems and habitats, but because it favors genetically engineered monocultures. The following pictograph is a shocking illustration of how industrial agriculture has reduced the variety of foods we eat over the last century:

…Over the past hundred years, the variety of seeds planted has dwindled from hundreds to just a handful. Animal diversity is suffering a similar fate. Large commercial farms that focus on specific animals or plants to maximize yields and profits have caused the variety in our food supply to plummet.

Today, only 30 crops provide 95 percent of our food, and only four crops (maize, wheat, rice and potato) account for 60 percent of what we eat. We’ve lost three-quarters of the genetic diversity of crops in only 100 years. Now 1,500 of the 7,600 animal breeds are at risk of extinction.

Why should we care? Well, we need biodiversity to grow food, or in other words, to survive….

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The Achilles’ heel of our monoculture crops is that they are vulnerable to small environmental changes. Dependency on such genetically uniform crops leaves modern society in danger of famine due to crop failure:

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The lessons of the 1972 epidemic of ‘corn leaf blight’ have still not been learnt. The Committee on Genetic Vulnerability of Major Crops at the US National Research Council at the time posed the question: “How uniform genetically are other crops upon which the nation depends, and how vulnerable, therefore, are they to epidemics? The answer is that most major crops are ‘impressively genetically uniform and thus vulnerable and results from government legislative and economic policy’. – link

Another problem of the industrial agriculture complex has been the overuse of herbicides and pesticides to control weeds, insects, and viruses in order to maximize crop yield. It worked for a while but over the last couple decades the pests and pathogens have evolved to become immune to our chemicals:

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Another Dire Report from a Wolf in Sheep’s Clothing

20 Thursday Jun 2013

Posted by xraymike79 in Capitalism, Climate Change, Corporate State, Ecological Overshoot, Environmental Degradation, Neo-Colonialism, Peak Oil, Pollution, Wall Street Fraud

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Building on a report which came out late last year, the World Bank released another report yesterday with the catchy title of ‘Turn Down the Heat: Climate Extremes, Regional Impacts, and the Case for Resilience‘. It was prepared for them by the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research and Climate Analytics and describes the effects of present day, 2°C, and 4°C (or 7.2° F) warming on agriculture, water resources, coastal ecosystems and cities across Sub-Saharan Africa, South Asia and South East Asia. Here are the key findings:

– By the 2030s, droughts and heat will leave 40% of the land in Sub-Saharan Africa, presently growing maize, unable to support that crop.

– Rising temperatures threaten major loss of savanna grasslands and the pastoral livelihoods of millions.

– By the 2050s, malnutrition is projected to increase by 25-90 percent compared to the present in various African subregions.

– In South Asia, the critical monsoon season may become erratic and unpredictable, precipitating a major crisis in the region.

– The devastating Pakistan floods of 2010 may become common place, threatening tens of millions.

– Extreme droughts across India may threaten their food system and lead to widespread shortages.

– As a temperature increase of 4°C approaches, rural populations across South East Asia are faced with sea level rise, more intense tropical cyclones, and loss of critical marine ecosystem services.

– Climate refugees fleeing into urban areas may lead to larger numbers of people living in ‘temporary’ camps which will increase their exposure to heat waves, flooding, and diseases.

– Sea level rise has been occurring faster than previously projected and a rise of as much as 50 cm by the 2050s may already be unavoidable as a result of past emissions.

– By the 2030s a sea level rise of 15 cm, coupled with more intense cyclones, threatens to inundate much of Manilla, Mumbai, Kolkata, Ho Chi Minh City, and Bangkok.

Obviously this sort of climatic change is going to increase terrorism and war as well as tax the electric grid and infrastructure of industrial civilization. It may get so unbearable that many will pray for NTE.

World Bank Group President Jim Yong Kim had this to say:

This new report outlines an alarming scenario for the days and years ahead – what we could face in our lifetime. The scientists tell us that if the world warms by 2°C — warming which may be reached in 20 to 30 years — that will cause widespread food shortages, unprecedented heat-waves, and more intense cyclones. In the near-term, climate change, which is already unfolding, could batter the slums even more and greatly harm the lives and the hopes of individuals and families who have had little hand in raising the Earth’s temperature.

He goes on to add the following hopium:

I do not believe the poor are condemned to the future scientists envision in this report. In fact, I am convinced we can reduce poverty even in a world severely challenged by climate change. We can help cities grow clean and climate resilient, develop climate smart agriculture practices, and find innovative ways to improve both energy efficiency and the performance of renewable energies. We can work with countries to roll back harmful fossil fuel subsidies and help put the policies in place that will eventually lead to a stable price on carbon.

Spare me the false concern with the world’s poor and destitute. Has the World Bank lifted a finger to stop the global land grab?

…The World Bank has played a decisive role in turning agriculture into an industry, and promoting the ever-increasing incorporation of natural goods into the market. Everything seems to indicate that it remains faithful to this role today, and continues to facilitate land grabs that represent great business opportunities for capitalists but greater dispossession for rural communities. – source

Without a complete paradigm shift, there can be no other outcome except economic collapse, famine, pestilence, war, and a major population contraction. When the wolves are in sheep’s clothing, expect business-as-usual. Reports describing the dire nature of our predicament will continue to be published just as every prediction in said reports becomes reality. Population overshoot, resource depletion, and a destabilized climate cannot be mitigated by making cities “clean and climate resilient.” If you recall, the mega-cities of today are by their very nature unsustainable because they import vast amounts of resources to support their overstretched ecological footprint. The World Bank report even says that 50cm sea level rise is likely already baked into the cake from past emissions, all the while CO2 and methane levels continue to rise. How would you make all the coastal cities, whose residents comprise a major portion of the world’s population, “climate resilient”? Last time I checked, the devastation left by Hurricane Sandy was still visible and many people were rebuilding right where their house previously stood, with the hope that Sandy was a “once in a lifetime event”. “Develop climate smart agriculture practices” is code for GMOing our way out of this problem. A “stable price” for carbon? Is that going to stop China’s coal consumption?

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…Despite its efforts to limit coal consumption and focus on alternative fuel sources, China’s thermal coal demand was expected to double by 2030, analyst Wood Mackenzie reported this week.

In a paper titled ‘China: The Illusion of Peak Coal’, Wood Mackenzie reported that the Asian major’s demand would grow to around seven-billion tons a year of thermal coal, which was contrary to speculation that China’s thermal coal demand may reach a peak in the next decade.

“It is very unlikely that demand for thermal coal in China will peak before 2030,” said William Durbin, Wood Mackenzie’s Beijing-based president of global markets.

“Why? Because China’s aggressive investment programme for nuclear, natural gas and renewables capacity is centred in the coastal region while coal-fired capacity grows in the central and western provinces. Indeed, there are also a plethora of coal-intensive conversion projects being built or planned that are significantly adding to demand.”…

…“Government mandates to improve the environment by reducing coal use will require steep investments in alternatives, the use of emission control technology or reduced economic growth rate targets – options which are not currently happening,” Durbin said.

“But what is noteworthy, however, is that there is greater potential for further demand growth beyond our expectations. Failure to meet an aggressive noncoal-power capacity build, investment in more efficient technologies and the expansion of the UHV network will increase the dependence on and use of coal. In the end, China’s thermal coal demand will see persistent growth until 2030, rendering peak coal an illusion.

Humans can talk about becoming sustainable until they are blue in the face, but with a global population growing by more than 200k per day, the rest of the planet striving for a high consumption western lifestyle, and external environmental costs of business(doubling every 14 years) ignored by corporations, how can that ever be possible? It won’t… until it can’t.

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‘Peak Meat’ and Other Threats to the World’s Food Supply

14 Friday Jun 2013

Posted by xraymike79 in Climate Change, Ecological Overshoot, Environmental Degradation, Peak Oil, Pollution

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Aquaculture, Climate Change, Colony Collapse Disorder, Ecological Overshoot, Environmental Collapse, Extinction of Man, Factory Farming, Global Famine, Land Grabs, Mass Die Off, Peak Fish, Peak Food Production, Peak Meat, Peak Oil, Peak Water, Water-Energy-Food Nexus

An article about ‘peak meat’ ran in The Atlantic and Quartz today, adding yet another peak to the mounting list of constrained and over-consumed resources on the planet:

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Besides the health risks of eating too much red meat, i.e. heart disease, there is the environmental impact affecting everyone, meat-eaters and vegans alike. In the last couple years there have been increasing calls for the developed countries to dramatically cut their meat consumption by 50% to reduce greenhouse gases from industrial meat production. The fertilizers used to grow the feed crops for cattle “produce the most potent of the greenhouse gases.”

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Retail sales of meat and poultry have risen in the U.S. in recent years, but the actual volume sold has been decreasing. The increased sales totals have been a result of increased prices due to higher production input costs. Look at the graph below and you’ll see that farmed fish have overtaken beef production. Part of this may be due perhaps to a more health-conscience public, but I believe the primary reason is because of increased production costs which are ultimately from increased energy costs or constraints of peak net energy:

As grain and soybean prices have risen well above historical levels in recent years, the cost of producing grain-eating livestock has also gone up. Higher prices have nudged consumers away from the least-efficient feeders. This means more farmed fish and less beef. In the United States, where the amount of meat in peoples’ diets has been falling since 2004, average consumption of beef per person has dropped by more than 13 percent and that of chicken by 5 percent. U.S. fish consumption has also dropped, but just by 2 percent…

…Cattle consume 7 pounds of grain or more to produce an additional pound of beef. This is twice as high as the grain rations for pigs, and over three times those of poultry. Fish are far more efficient, typically taking less than 2 pounds of feed to add another pound of weight. Pork and poultry are the most widely eaten forms of animal protein worldwide, but farmed fish output is increasing the fastest. – source

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In the next graph we see that while farm fishing is on the rise, wild caught fish have been on the decline due to overfishing, destruction of ocean ecosystems, and what has been called peak fish.

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So the world is replacing beef and wild-caught fish with farmed fish or aquaculture. But just as cattle farming and the overharvesting of the oceans for 7 billion people create their own far-reaching environmental impacts, so too does farmed fish:

As cattle ranches have displaced biologically rich rainforests, fish farms have displaced mangrove forests that provide important fish nursery habitats and protect coasts during storms. Worldwide, aquaculture is thought to be responsible for more than half of all mangrove loss, mostly for shrimp farming. In the Philippines, some two thirds of the country’s mangroves—over 100,000 hectares—have been removed for shrimp farming over the last 40 years. …Another problem with intensive confined animal feeding operations of all kinds, whether for farmed fish or for cattle, is not what gets extracted from the environment but what gets put in it. …Along with the vast quantities of waste, the antibiotic and parasite-killing chemicals used to deal with the unwanted disease and infestations that can spread easily in crowded conditions also can end up in surrounding ecosystems. The overuse of antibiotics in livestock operations can lead to antibiotic-resistant bacteria, threatening both human and animal health. In the United States, for instance, 80 percent of antibiotics use is in agriculture—and often not for treating sick animals but for promoting rapid weight gain. – source

On his website Peak Food, John Gossop lists the reasons why we are headed for a global famine in 2025:

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In response to the increasing demand for food, wealthy countries have gone overseas on a land grab to secure soil and water resources:

…in the past 10 years, up to 227 million hectares of land were sold in developing and emerging countries, or signed away as long-term leases. The total area is roughly six times the size of Germany. In the past two years, compe­tition has intensified further, especially in sub-Saharan Africa. According to Oxfam, more than 60 % of the land deals concern countries that suffer poverty and hunger. This is considered worrisome since international investors are basically interested in exporting commodities to richer economies. – source

Peak food production seems to have been reached due to the water-energy-food nexus, according to Marita Wiggerthale, trade and food expert for Oxfam Germany:

Peak food production has already been reached because there is increased competition between food, fuel and feed,” Wiggerthale said, pointing to biofuel production that diverts 15 percent of the world’s corn to engines and the world’s growing appetite for meat, which pushes farmers to grow food for animal feed at the expense of other food crops. – source

I’m not sure what new crops will survive in a climate pattern of extreme drought, floods, and fluctuating temperatures, but some think we can GMO are way out of this mess.

“Beekeeper Industry is Doomed and Cannot Survive for another 2 to 3 Years…”

And to add to the threat of the world’s food supply, a mass die-off of the bees is underway, probably from the nemesis effect of our pesticide and chemical-saturated environment. Don’t these news reporters look a little too relaxed reporting this horrific story in the video below?

Sacramento California is now witnessing first hand, the daunting implications of colony collapse disorder. It is estimated that California produces about 80 percent of the world’s almonds. There are 6,000 almond orchards in that region and many of the farmers are finding that there simply aren’t enough bees to pollinate their crop. A fourth generation beekeeper lost 70% of his hives while another lost 100%.

The negative effects of the honeybee shortage were predicted last year so measures were taken to try and offset this dangerous scenario. 11,000 hives were brought to California from all over the country; of these 11,000 hives, hundreds were found dead upon arrival. There are an abundance of theorized causes of colony collapse disorder, from disease, to mites, to pesticides. In a recent U.C. Davis study, in which a large sample of hives was examined, 150 different chemical residues were found on the bees.

The effects of honeybee loss are near cataclysmic as it is estimated that one third of the entire world’s food supply comes from pollination. Pesticides are a key suspect in the hunt for the culprit and fortunately there is something that we can all do to counter their use. We can buy organic, buy local, and grow our own food. Practicing self-sustainability and support for local sustainable farmers is a key factor in staving off the potential for worldwide food shortages… – source

As the bees go, so goes humanity.

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The Grim Future Seen From Current Headlines

13 Thursday Jun 2013

Posted by xraymike79 in Capitalism, Climate Change, Ecological Overshoot, Environmental Degradation, Pollution

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America faces the future.

As the recent news stories below illustrate, extreme weather is on the rise and has been scientifically linked to human-induced climate change. I find it amazing than in the midst of the beginning stages of collapse of industrial civilization, many will attribute the disintegrating environment to natural phenomenon, biblical and other religious prophecy, or the lizard illuminati. I suppose the real reason behind America’s hi-tech surveillance panopticon is to keep the hungry and destitute masses from overrunning the walled compounds of the elite when climate change and peak net energy really kick into gear. These days the number of headlines pointing to environmental collapse are overwhelming; choosing one is like shooting fish in a barrel. The population of Atlantic Puffin bird, called the ‘marine canary in the coal mine‘, has reportedly been “losing body weight and dying of starvation, possibly because of shifting fish populations as ocean temperatures rise.” The Arctic, an essential temperature regulator for the planet, is melting fast and releasing a carbon time bomb:

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Over hundreds of millennia, Arctic permafrost soils have accumulated vast stores of organic carbon – an estimated 1,400 to 1,850 petagrams of it (a petagram is 2.2 trillion pounds, or 1 billion metric tons). That’s about half of all the estimated organic carbon stored in Earth’s soils. In comparison, about 350 petagrams of carbon have been emitted from all fossil-fuel combustion and human activities since 1850. Most of this carbon is located in thaw-vulnerable topsoils within 10 feet (3 meters) of the surface.

But, as scientists are learning, permafrost – and its stored carbon – may not be as permanent as its name implies. And that has them concerned.

“Permafrost soils are warming even faster than Arctic air temperatures – as much as 2.7 to 4.5 degrees Fahrenheit (1.5 to 2.5 degrees Celsius) in just the past 30 years,” Miller said. “As heat from Earth’s surface penetrates into permafrost, it threatens to mobilize these organic carbon reservoirs and release them into the atmosphere as carbon dioxide and methane, upsetting the Arctic’s carbon balance and greatly exacerbating global warming.”

Current climate models do not adequately account for the impact of climate change on permafrost and how its degradation may affect regional and global climate…

…“The Arctic is warming dramatically – two to three times faster than mid-latitude regions – yet we lack sustained observations and accurate climate models to know with confidence how the balance of carbon among living things will respond to climate change and related phenomena in the 21st century,” said Miller. “Changes in climate may trigger transformations that are simply not reversible within our lifetimes, potentially causing rapid changes in the Earth system that will require adaptations by people and ecosystems.”…

Adaptation will likely not be possible by humans, and as far as our sprawling steal and concrete cities are concerned – they’re toast.

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…“Some of the methane and carbon dioxide concentrations we’ve measured have been large, and we’re seeing very different patterns from what models suggest,” Miller said. “We saw large, regional-scale episodic bursts of higher-than-normal carbon dioxide and methane in interior Alaska and across the North Slope during the spring thaw, and they lasted until after the fall refreeze. To cite another example, in July 2012 we saw methane levels over swamps in the Innoko Wilderness that were 650 parts per billion higher than normal background levels. That’s similar to what you might find in a large city.”…

The next headline sums up the climate policy of all governments – a joke. Business-as-usual will continue until it ain’t so usual anymore. Insurance costs will skyrocket and the wrath of nature will roll back all the transient wealth humans have built up atop the backs of our fossil fuel slaves. Externalized costs will be paid back in the wreckage of a civilization which thought of itself as superior to and separate from the natural world.

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Reading the inklings of future trouble that the next three headlines portend, you’ll see global famine on the horizon:

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We’re seeing more severe storms,” Vilsack said. “We’re facing more invasive species. More intense forest fire threatens communities each year. NOAA reported that 2012 was the second most intense year in our history for extreme weather events — droughts, flooding, hurricanes, severe storms, and devastating wildfire. NOAA also advised that last year was the warmest on record for the continental United States.”

He made it clear we can’t dismiss these changes as an aberration.

“The latest science tells us that the threat of a changing climate is new and different from anything we’ve ever tackled,” Vilsack said.

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A historic multi-billion dollar flood disaster has killed at least eighteen people in Central Europe after record flooding unprecedented since the Middle Ages hit major rivers in Austria, the Czech Republic, Germany, Poland and Slovakia over the past two weeks. The Danube River in Passau, Germany hit the highest level since 1501, and the Saale River in Halle, Germany was the highest in its 400-year period of record. Numerous cities recorded their highest flood waters in more than a century, although in some locations the great flood of 2002 was higher. The Danube is expected to crest in Hungary’s capital city of Budapest on June 10 at the highest flood level on record, 35 cm higher than the record set in 2006. The flooding was caused by torrential rains that fell on already wet soils. In a 2-day period from May 30 – June 1, portions of Austria received the amount of rain that normally falls in two-and-half months: 150 to 200 mm (5.9 to 7.9″), with isolated regions experiencing 250 mm (9.8″). This two-day rain event had a greater than 1-in-100 year recurrence interval, according to the Austrian Meteorological Agency, ZAMG…

…The primary cause of the torrential rains over Central Europe during late May and early June was large loop in the jet stream that developed over Europe and got stuck in place…

…If it seems like getting two 1-in-100 to 1-in-500 year floods in eleven years is a bit suspicious–well, it is. Those recurrence intervals are based on weather statistics from Earth’s former climate. We are now in a new climate regime with more heat and moisture in the atmosphere, combined with altered jet stream patterns, which makes major flooding disasters more likely in certain parts of the world, like Central Europe. As I discussed in a March 2013 post, “Are atmospheric flow patterns favorable for summer extreme weather increasing?”, research published this year by scientists at the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK) in German found that extreme summertime jet stream patterns had become twice as common during 2001 – 2012 compared to the previous 22 years. One of these extreme patterns occurred in August 2002, during Central Europe’s last 1-in-100 to 1-in-500 year flood. When the jet stream goes into one of these extreme configurations, it freezes in its tracks for weeks, resulting in an extended period of extreme heat or flooding, depending upon where the high-amplitude part of the jet stream lies. The scientists found that because human-caused global warming is causing the Arctic to heat up more than twice as rapidly as the rest of the planet, a unique resonance pattern capable of causing this behavior was resulting.According to German climate scientist Stefan Rahmstorf, “Planetary wave [jet stream] amplitudes have been very high in the last few weeks; we think this plays a role in the current German flooding event.

The biggest lie ever told is that we will be able to adapt to or mitigate a planet-wide shift in weather patterns, temperatures, and sea level rise on such a short time-scale as to be instantaneous in geologic records. Our fall – a tragicomedy of hubris, self-delusion, greed – will be more precipitous than our rise.

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Fire Up The Next Great Extinction Event!

27 Monday May 2013

Posted by xraymike79 in Capitalism, Climate Change, Corporate State, Environmental Degradation, Pollution

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When a former hedge fund manager uses the word “extinction” seven times in his article, that tends to get my attention. Robert Hunziker has written a new article entitled America’s Ecological Precipice which is an overview of many of the things we have been talking about here. He identifies two primary threats from the Arctic which is currently in runaway climate change:

(1) The warming Arctic alters the atmospheric jet streams, bringing in its wake embedded droughts similar to the 2012 blistering drought, the worst drought since the 1950s.

(2) Additionally, and more critically, the warming Arctic is flat-out releasing methane into the atmosphere like there is no tomorrow, threatening to heat up the entire planet, which, over time, could turn into a worldwide scorcher, possibly triggering an extinction event.

He mentions that the Arctic Methane Emergency Group [AMEG] has decided to quantify the amount of methane that is now escaping into the atmosphere from these Arctic areas. I was not aware of this, and I have not seen any data from them.

Based upon eight (8) joint Russian/American scientific expeditions into the Arctic under the aegis of the International Arctic Research Centre at the University Alaska Fairbanks, methane fields of a breathtakingly fantastic scale have been discovered with plumes over a half-mile wide spewing methane directly into the atmosphere in concentrations 100 times higher than normal. The Russian and American scientists have never before experienced anything of such magnitude, and in addition to powerful emissions from shallow waters where over 100 readings were recorded, it is spewing up from within cracks in the Arctic ice in the open seas far from land.

Moreover, the quantities of methane in the continental shelf alone are so huge and overwhelming that only 1% or 2% of the methane released could lead to an unstoppable chain reaction of runaway overheating of the planet.

Along these lines, the Arctic Methane Emergency Group is deciding to quantify, for the first time ever, the results of runaway climate change, leading to the probability of an extinction event on planet earth. Unfortunately for those who choose to disregard concerns about climate change, this could happen within their lifetimes, or their children, or grandchildren. Nobody knows for sure.

The most current readings from NOAA show a continual rise in global CH4 levels:

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I suspected the Arctic readings would be off the chart, and indeed they are, according to those published at methane-hydrates.blogspot.com. Just to put in context those values in the chart below, levels of CH4 have historically been much lower, except in times of mass extinction:

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In 2010, methane levels in the Arctic were measured at 1850 nmol/mol, a level over twice as high as at any time in the 400,000 years prior to the industrial revolution. Historically, methane concentrations in the world’s atmosphere have ranged between 300 and 400 nmol/mol during glacial periods commonly known as ice ages, and between 600 to 700 nmol/mol during the warm interglacial periods. It has a high global warming potential: 72 times that of carbon dioxide over 20 years, and 25 times over 100 years,[43] and the levels are rising. Recent research suggests that the Earth’s oceans are a potentially important new source of Arctic methane.[44]

…The Earth’s atmospheric methane concentration has increased by about 150% since 1750, and it accounts for 20% of the total radiative forcing from all of the long-lived and globally mixed greenhouse gases (these gases don’t include water vapor which is by far the largest component of the greenhouse effect).[47]  – source

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These sky high methane emissions are from East Antarctica and appear to be from methane hydrates in the form of free gas bubbling up through the ice sheet. The danger is that such emissions appear to be escalating not only over Antarctica, but also on the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau and in the Arctic. Just recently, a Russian ice base had to be evacuated due to the thinning ice in the Arctic. This is a foreboding sign of that which is to come.

Like the 350.org which campaigns in vain to stop the inexorable rise in CO2, there is now a similar group for methane emissions, called 1250now.org which aims to keep global CH4 below that level. As they say, the genie is already out of its bottle and such efforts are merely psychological exercises of comforting self-delusionment. At the same time, the heads of industry are just trying to figure out how to exploit the stuff in order to burn it.

I’ve strayed a bit from Hunziker’s original article so getting back to it, he describes how lackadaisical the U.S. government has been in response to such dire climate change warnings like that coming from the National Climate Assessment report which stated the following:

Threats to human health from increased extreme weather events, wildfires and air pollution, as well as diseases spread by insects and through food and water;

Less reliable water supply, and the potential for water rights to become a hot-button legal issue;

More vulnerable infrastructure due to sea-level rise, bigger storm surges, heavy downpours and extreme heat;

Warmer and more acidic oceans.

On the topic of our vanishing water supply and the state of America’s High Plains Aquifer, “one of the world’s great aquifers responsible for about 30% of America’s irrigated land,” Hunziker writes :

The recent extreme drought of 2012 across America’s breadbasket has brought the seriousness of a shortage of water to a crescendo as the Kansas Geological Survey reported that average water levels dropped nearly a third of the total decline since 1996… over a period of only two years! Or, put another way, 1/3 of the total 17-year drawdown of the aquifer occurred in 2 years. This is not a telltale signal of gathering disaster. Rather, the possibility of an impending collapse of the ecosystem is at the doorstep!

But most amusing is the story of GOP sweetheart Sarah Palin and her total flip-flop on the reality of climate change. When she was governor of Alaska back in 2007, she wholeheartedly endorsed taking action to ameliorate the effects of climate change:

At the time, Governor Palin stated: “Climate change is not just an environmental issue. It is also a social, cultural, and economic issue important to all Alaskans… As a result of this warming, coastal erosion, thawing permafrost, retreating sea ice, record forest fires, and other changes are affecting, and will continue to affect, the lifestyles and livelihoods of Alaskans.

But then when she joined McCain’s 2008 presidential ticket, her brain was apparently run through the Republican anti-science indoctrination machine and viola! She instantly became a climate change denier:

…Once Palin joined the Republican ticket, within 12 months, she dismissed climate science as “snake oil.”

…Nowadays, the politicians in Alaska, very much aware of the changes in the polar region, are positioning Alaska as a gateway for shipping traffic and production of oil beneath the increasingly ice-free seas of Arctic waters. And, Palin’s brief legacy of concern about a viciously changing climate evaporated into thin air. Poof… gone!

Money in American politics, like most other places in the world, corrupts absolutely. Money is all that is needed for smarmy politicians to turn their backs on the future of their own children. I hope they can eat all that worthless currency that’s flying off the money presses because real food is going to be hard to come by in the future, especially when the hungry masses are climbing your palace walls to raid your pantry:

According to NASA Goddard Institute of Space Studies, Kansas will be 4 degrees warmer in winter without Arctic ice, which regularly generates cold air masses that flow southward into the U.S. (You’ve probably heard weather forecasters say the following hundreds of times: People in the middle part of the country had better button up. We’ve got an Arctic Cold Front hitting this weekend and temperatures will drop 15-to-20 degrees overnight.) But, with an ice-less Arctic, this legacy of cool Arctic air serving to regulate the climate in the U.S. will be mostly gone, ineffective.

As follows, the problem for Kansas: Warmer winters are bad news for the wheat farmers’ requirement for freezing temperatures to grow winter wheat, and during summer, warmer days rob Kansas of precious soil moisture, drying out valuable wheat crop. Which means Kansas will increasingly depend upon one of the world’s largest aquifers, which is already drying up in certain locations, even if drought conditions are not present.

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Runaway Climate Change in the Arctic is Just The Beginning

21 Tuesday May 2013

Posted by xraymike79 in Climate Change, Environmental Degradation, Pollution

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An astute reader has directed me to a couple of brilliant, just-released videos done by David Wasdell (produced by Envisionation) which bring into focus the rapid changes that are occurring in the Arctic and what the horrific implications are for the rest of the planet. I have watched both videos and posted an abbreviated version of them below. The original transcript of the two videos is here. We can see that even the worse case scenarios plotted by mainstream climate models have grossly underestimated what is happening in the Arctic. As Mr. Wasdell states, “The Arctic… is the fastest moving response to global warming and climate change anywhere on the planet.”

One of the reasons for the Arctic’s rapid temperature increase is that it is not being shielded by industrial pollutants that once came from the Northern Hemisphere. The aerosol effect is now coming primarily from the burning of poor quality coal in Asia(China and India). From roughly 1940 to 1980 there was a massive increase in power production during the Great Acceleration of the West. Remember the acid rain and smog from the 50’s and 60’s? In 1970, the U.S. Congress imposed acid emission regulations through the Clean Air Act which was strengthened two decades later in 1990. Sulfate and nitrate levels in precipitation decreased by some 40 percent since that time. This lifted the manmade protective aerosol shield, also called “global dimming”. Temperatures then started to rise again, but have leveled off since 1997 due to the recent industrialization of China and India, the effect of which has been to artificially cool down global temperature once more.

The effects of global dimming have been enhanced during this period [Asian Industrialization] by the mixing of more surface heat down to deeper ocean water, by the dominance of La Nina (cooler) conditions in the Pacific, and by a prolonged period of minimal solar radiation. The absence of temperature increase has also blocked all amplification from the temperature-dependent feedback mechanisms.

All of these eras(The Great Acceleration, The Clean Air Act, and Asia’s Industrialization) and their effect on global temperature are shown in the chart below:

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Climate-change deniers are of course crowing and saying “Although carbon dioxide concentrations have gone on increasing, and emissions are running at a higher rate than when temperature was still rising, temperature has not changed. So obviously it is independent of carbon dioxide. So we can forget all about climate change and continue to use fossil energy without any worry about contributing to global warming!” That is a complete and utter myth!

Remember what happened after the Second World War? The same thing is happening today.

So what happens when Asia, specifically China, cleans up and improves its air quality? Global temperatures will rise again.

The Arctic Meltdown

Free from the effects of global dimming that heavy post WW II industrial activity produced in the northern hemisphere, the Arctic air is relatively clean, as compared to the rest of the world right now. The greenhouse effect from CO2 is therefore allowed to occur uninhibited at a much faster rate, setting off numerous positive feedback loops:

– increased Arctic temperature raises water-vapor concentration which in turn elevates the heating

– floating ice and land-based ice begin to melt and more sea and land surface is exposed to the sun’s rays, inducing further ice melt from the diminishing Arctic albedo effect

– the sea heats up from the disintegration of floating ice and the land heats up from diminishing ice cover

Hyper-exponential Increase of Temperature in the Arctic Area

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The worst-case prediction by current climate models of an ice-free Arctic by about 2075 are way off mark because they employ crude linear extrapolations that do not account for complex, self-reinforcing feedback loops. the Arctic will actually experience its first occurrence of zero ice area at the end of September 2015 according to Wasdell’s studies.

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Through the use of submarine-based sonar measurements and satellite data, a PIOMASS graph of yearly minimum Arctic ice volume or mass has been constructed which also shows the first occurrence of no floating Arctic sea-ice in 2015.

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Another graph, known on the internet as the Arctic Death Spiral, shows the collapse in the total volume of Arctic ice measured in thousands of cubic kilometers. The center of the graph is zero and the values increase up to 30km3 as you move out from the center. Each year is represented from 1979 up to 2013 in a clockwise orientation. Each month of the year has its own color and is plotted in a clockwise fashion as well. Being the month with the least amount of ice cover, September is the innermost line represented by the color black.

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You can see that September ice volume plunged from 7km3 in 2009 down to 3.3km3 in 2012. Indeed all months of each successive year are pulling downwards towards the center of zero ice volume. According to these calculations of total ice volume melt, the first year of an ice-free September moves up one year earlier to September 2014.

In the 1980’s, the mass of floating Arctic sea ice at the end of September was staying roughly stable. By the 1990’s it was losing about 4.5 thousand cubic kilometres per decade. In the 2000’s that moved up to about 7.8 thousand cubic kilometres per decade, while in the last three years the decadal rate has surged to around 13.8 thousand cubic kilometres. So we have another of these behaviours in which the smaller the mass becomes, the faster the rate of loss. The behaviour is not linear, it is represented by an exponential curve…

…And then there is one other thing to take into account:

Ice does not just melt and thin gradually to a wafer as would be implied in these projections. When it reduces to about 45 centimetres thick it begins to break up under the impact of waves and tides and storms. The result is a lot of brash, smaller broken pieces of ice. Now broken ice of this nature melts very much faster because warmer water and warmer air and solar energy can get round to its exposed surfaces. The melt-rate increases dramatically. These curves that we have been exploring take no account of this final break-up.

So, while we would expect the first occurrence of zero ice by the end of September 2014, there is a distinct possibility that under the impact of ice break-up (of which interestingly we were already seeing signs in March 2013) the Arctic Ocean could be ice free at the end of September in 2013.

Consequences and Implications

– Runaway Climate Change in the Arctic: The CO2 trigger has set off multiple factors such as the water-vapour feedback, the ice-albedo feedback and other positive feedback loops to exponentially accelerate ice loss in the Arctic as shown in the above graphs.

– Increasing Ice-Free Window: As mentioned earlier, September is the month with the least amount of ice and each successive year has seen a smaller and smaller volume of ice at that time. We are approaching the year when September will be ice-free, leaving the door open for the sun’s rays to heat up the ocean and further accelerate ice loss in the Arctic. This is like a burglar getting a foothold in a door that has been cracked open, allowing him to use his crowbar to fully pry open up the door that was once safely closed. An ice-free month of September that will soon open up in 2014 or 2015 will allow the sun’s solar energy to expand that ice-free window year after year after year.

– Accelerating Temperature: The expanding ice-free window described above will accelerate average temperatures upwards year after year after year, intensifying all feedback loops.

– Tundra Impact: Warmer Arctic temperatures flow over the land, melting tundra permafrost and releasing methane as well as activating bacteria which feed on exposed dead vegetation which in turn release even more CO2 and methane. The melting Tundra takes longer to refreeze in Autumn which further decreases snow cover. Melting Tundra releases warm waters which runs off into the northern seas, warming and desalinating shallow coastal surface waters.

– Methane Release: Wave energy, tidal behaviour and storm effects from a warming and increasingly ice-free Arctic are acting to disturb ancient methane deposits at the sea floor. These methane deposits are called “clathrates”, a combination of methane and ice crystals. The warmer the water gets, the more methane is allowed to reach the water’s surface and escape into the atmosphere. Fossil ice filled with ancient plant matter and detritus is also beginning to melt and release methane. The combination of Tundra methane and deep-sea methane escaping into the atmosphere further increases the greenhouse effect, enabling methane release to speed up and create an even more potent greenhouse effect. Thus another runaway feedback process has been activated.

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– Melting Greenland Ice-Cap: The melting is accelerating and releasing water into the glacial cracks and down into the base of the ice sheet, enabling the calving of glaciers and discharge of icebergs into the sea.

…So the collapse of the ice-sheet could become exponential and could happen quite quickly. As that occurs, large quantities of cold fresh water are discharged into the North Atlantic and that can have significant effects on the drivers of the Gulf Stream, the thermohaline circulation. As that slows down (and we would expect it to under these conditions) then the heat that at presently comes via ocean currents to the north- western seaboard of Europe begins to decline. In a strange anomaly, the rate of change of temperature in north-west Europe will slow down as Arctic temperatures climb.

– Sea-Level Rise: The melting of the Greenland ice-cap would have catastrophic consequences for civilization and its large percentage of coastal urban centers. Up to about seven metres of global sea-level change could happen on a decadal basis. The West Antarctic ice field is also subject to melting and disintegration, although at a much slower pace than Greenland, which would act to raise sea levels even higher.

– Jet-Stream Behaviour: The energy of the Jet Stream is driven by the difference in temperature between the Arctic and the warm sub-tropical air of lower latitudes. As the Arctic warms and the temperature difference decreases, the jet stream around the North Pole begins to slow down and get sluggish or mangled. Colder northern air is being pulled south and warmer tropical air is being sucked up north to the Arctic, further warming the Arctic. This change in the jet stream causes “blocking patterns of extreme drought, extreme rain, extreme cold, extreme heat, and extreme unpredictability.”

And that is where the nub comes. With extreme unpredictability food production is disrupted in the bread-baskets of the northern hemisphere. We are talking about the corn and wheat-producing areas of North America and Europe, of Russia and the Ukraine, and across to the wheat and rice producing areas of northern China. We have already seen major loss of food production capacity in the northern hemisphere as a result of what has already taken place. Over the next few years that will accelerate significantly. There are economic issues; there are humanitarian issues; there are political issues that all stem from that instability. We are already seeing hedge funds and pension and other investment funds buying up future food in anticipation of future shortages and high prices that all stem from this phenomenon. That means it is going to be very difficult for the poorer countries of the world to buy food on the open market to enable their populations to survive. It will be even more difficult for the Aid agencies to buy up surplus food (which is in short supply and much more expensive) for distribution in conditions of humanitarian disaster. Because of the economic spin-off there will be financial destabilization in the wake of food shortages. That leads inevitably to political destabilization. So we have some really important issues to deal with that all stem from the implications of the phenomena we are now understanding in the terms of Arctic Dynamics.

– Impact on Global Dynamics: What we see in the Arctic – runaway climate change – could be in store for the rest of the planet which, at the moment, is still in stasis. Once the “aerosol effect” or “global dimming” of industrial pollution is removed, we will see further temperature increases. Other positive feedback loops which are specific to various regions of the world could come into play like they have in the Arctic.

The implications of jet-stream behaviour and Arctic dynamics could spin-off into our economics, into our food production, into abandonment of the poor, into the inability to sustain a population of 8, 9 or even 10 billion people, into our survival as a species. All this will inevitably follow unless we are able to intervene, to slow it down, to bring it to a halt and reverse it. Without that intervention, global dynamics hold a dark future for humanity and a dark future for the biosphere of which we are a part. It is time to take action, not only for the Arctic but for the whole global crisis in which we are all involved.

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  • How to Stay Informed About Agriculture, Food, and Farming Issues October 15, 2019
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RSS Bill Moyers

  • 11/23 PBS – Put Democracy on Trial in Prime Time November 23, 2019
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RSS Bit Tooth Energy

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  • Jonathan Turley Whiffs Vs. More Learned Constitutional Scholars At House Judiciary Hearing December 5, 2019
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RSS Breaking the Set

  • Abby Martin Breaks the Set One Last Time February 28, 2015
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RSS Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists

  • And the prize for global nuclear security goes to… China December 6, 2019
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  • Video evidence appears to show Iranian security forces 'shooting to kill' protesters after demonstrations broke out, UN says December 7, 2019
  • AI IN TELECOMMUNICATIONS: Why carriers could lose out if they don't adopt AI fast — and where they can make the biggest gains December 7, 2019
  • Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez calls out Trump after news that Amazon plans to hire 1,500 employees in New York City (AMZN) December 7, 2019
  • Sea snails are a staple street food in Vietnam, with an entire street dedicated to them in Ho Chi Minh City December 7, 2019
  • Less than a year after abandoning HQ2 in New York City, Amazon says it's opening a new 1,500-employee office in NYC (AMZN) December 7, 2019

RSS C-Realm

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  • Bagley Decade! December 6, 2019
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  • Climategate, 10 Years Later: What Can we Learn About it from Memetics? November 17, 2019

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  • The Renaissance on Alcatraz 50 Years Later December 5, 2019

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  • The WTO 20 Years After the 'Battle of Seattle' November 29, 2019
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RSS Charles Eisenstein’s Blog

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  • Factory Farm Conditions Are Bad for People Too December 7, 2019

RSS Class Warfare Blog

  • Well, Now They Know December 5, 2019
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RSS Cliff Schecter

  • Outrage in Mexico over videos mocking viral feminist anthem December 7, 2019
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  • Why a 'Green New Deal' must be decolonial December 7, 2019

RSS Climate and Capitalism

  • A system that steals from our future November 26, 2019
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  • A Fraught Moment December 6, 2019
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  • Even as 500,000 March in Madrid, Greta Thunberg Warns Climate Movement Has 'Achieved Nothing' Until Emissions Fall December 6, 2019
  • Edward Snowden: If I Came Back to the U.S., I Would Likely Die in Prison for Telling the Truth December 6, 2019
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  • Eat an Impeachment December 6, 2019
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  • Whatever Happened to the Obama Coalition? December 6, 2019
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  • Conviction and Removal Aren’t the Issue; It’s Impeachment of Trump That is Essential December 6, 2019
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RSS Crooked Timber

  • Virtue signalling and vice signalling December 5, 2019
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  • C&L's Late Nite Music Club With The King Brothers December 7, 2019
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  • Last Born in the Wilderness Interview, Transitions October 14, 2019
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RSS Damn the Matrix

  • Economics for the future – Beyond the superorganism December 7, 2019
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  • A Snapshot of Murka December 6, 2019
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  • Carol Carter Explores South Saint Louis in New Exhibit December 7, 2019
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RSS Dark Ages America

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RSS Death by Car: Capitalism’s Drive to Carmageddon

  • Gaps, Indeed November 26, 2019
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RSS Deep Green Resistence News Service

  • A Taxonomy of Action, Part 2: Acts of Commission December 6, 2019
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RSS Deepak Tripathi’s Diary

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  • Justin Amash Says He's Ready To Vote To Impeach Trump December 7, 2019
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  • Strip-search policy halted after 8-year-old reportedly told to get naked at Virginia prison December 7, 2019
  • Actor Ron Leibman dead at 82 December 7, 2019
  • FAA seeks $3.9 million fine from Boeing for defective parts on 737 NG planes December 7, 2019
  • Trump to 'temporarily hold off' declaring Mexican cartels terror organizations December 7, 2019
  • Elon Musk did not defame British cave explorer, jury finds December 7, 2019
  • Trump Orders Toilet Rule Review, Saying People Flush 10 Times December 7, 2019
  • Senate GOPers Expand Effort To Probe Sketchy Ukraine Claims Pushed By Trump December 7, 2019
  • Merkel Tours Auschwitz With 'Sense Of Shame' And Warns Of Resurgent Anti- Semitism December 7, 2019

RSS Democratic Underground – Good Reads

  • Deserted 5-year-old takes toddler to neighbor in bitter cold December 7, 2019
  • Civil War historian schools Nikki Haley after she argues Confederate flag stood for "service and her December 7, 2019
  • 'SELL BABY SELL!': Inside the opioid industry's marketing machine December 6, 2019
  • Primitive psychiatric projection by trump December 6, 2019
  • 'The Science Is Screaming': UN Report Warns (Climate Emergency) December 6, 2019
  • Trump has Heart Disease December 6, 2019
  • "Chaos at the Top of the World: It was one of the most arresting viral photos of the year: a horde December 6, 2019
  • Indictment Details How Emirates Sought Influence in 2016 Campaign December 6, 2019
  • This moment was made for Nancy Pelosi December 6, 2019
  • A Guantnamo Bay detainee's drawings show the brutal CIA torture he endured at a secret US-run priso December 6, 2019

RSS Democracy Now

  • Why Are Some of Spain’s Biggest Polluters Sponsoring U.N. Climate Summit? December 6, 2019
  • "It's Our Future": Meet the Youth Activists Behind Fridays for Future Movements in Uganda and Chile December 6, 2019
  • COP25: Alternative Climate Summit Honors Those "Suffering the Crimes of Transnational Corporations" December 6, 2019
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  • Sweden Provides Free Higher Education, Universal Healthcare, Free Daycare — Why Can’t the U.S.? December 5, 2019
  • Aminatou Haidar Honored For Decades of Peaceful Resistance in Western Sahara, Africa’s Last Colony December 5, 2019
  • Edward Snowden: If I Came Back to the U.S., I Would Likely Die in Prison for Telling the Truth December 5, 2019
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  • U.N. Report Finds Over 7 Million Children Worldwide Are Being Held in Various Kinds of Detention December 4, 2019
  • Brazilian Indigenous Leader Davi Kopenawa: Bolsonaro is Killing My People & Destroying the Amazon December 4, 2019

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  • World Soil Day: Soil degradation heightens Nigeria’s food insecurity December 5, 2019
  • Tunisia hosts FAO conference on improving water productivity in agriculture December 5, 2019
  • Mali mayors take climate classes to fend off desertification December 5, 2019
  • World Soil Day: Addressing erosion to ensure food security December 4, 2019
  • Go local, go green December 4, 2019

RSS deSmog Blog

  • UK Climate Diplomacy Staff Cut Again as Post-Brexit Links to Trump and US Deniers Strengthen November 24, 2016
  • EPA Watchdog: White House Blocked Part of Truck Pollution Investigation, Caused Lack of Public Information December 7, 2019
  • BP Challenged On Adverts That 'Mislead Consumers' Over Polluting Portfolio December 4, 2019

RSS Digbys Blog

  • Friday Night Soother December 7, 2019
  • Pelosi the Powerful December 7, 2019
  • No, both sides are not equally corrupt December 6, 2019
  • The crime spree is ongoing December 6, 2019
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  • What does a successful post-impeachment election look like? December 6, 2019

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  • US hypocrisy on Iran December 1, 2019
  • Protest double standards November 18, 2019
  • US guns kill around the world November 18, 2019

RSS Dissent Magazine

  • Belabored Podcast #189: International Solidarity December 6, 2019
  • Can We Democratize Foreign Policy? December 4, 2019
  • Know Your Enemy #12: She’s Got a Plan, with Rebecca Traister December 2, 2019
  • The UK General Election: What Comes after Anti-Politics? November 29, 2019

RSS Dissident Voice

  • The Origins of Democratic Socialism: Robert Owen and Worker Cooperatives   December 7, 2019
  • Some False Statements Made in the Trump-Impeachment Hearings December 7, 2019
  • Permafrost Hits a Grim Threshold December 7, 2019
  • The Sun Never Sets on the Canadian Military December 7, 2019
  • Inside the Organized Crime Syndicate Known as the CIA December 6, 2019
  • Hooked on Orcas December 6, 2019
  • Hong Kong:  Pure Western Insanity December 6, 2019
  • Quo Vadis, Lebanon? December 6, 2019

RSS Do the Math

  • Eclipsed, Lately September 11, 2017

RSS Dollars & Sense Blog

  • Buy Prints of the Comic Strips of Neoliberalism! December 3, 2019
  • Sixty UK Universities Are on Strike November 29, 2019
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  • Team Human serialization begins today on Medium! October 30, 2019
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  • Why Tech is Tearing Us Apart May 31, 2019

RSS Dr. Paul Craig Roberts

  • The Future of This Website December 6, 2019
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RSS Dredd Blog

  • The Shape Shifters Of Bullshitistan - 21 December 5, 2019
  • In Absentia November 13, 2019
  • The Extinction of Robust Sea Ports - 12 October 31, 2019
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  • Global Carbon Sink Holding Up So Far August 25, 2018
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RSS Earth First

  • “UNC Dildo-Boy” accosts homophobic preacher, releases anti-technology declaration March 2, 2014
  • Subpoena caps bad week for fossil fuel March 2, 2014
  • Less Than 60 Hours Left to Support Indigenous Land Defenders! February 18, 2014

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  • Data Highlight - Wind Power Beats Nuclear Again in China
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RSS Ecocide Alert

  • Things To Consider In A Respectable Pool Service Company in Upland June 13, 2019

RSS Ecohuman World

  • Our mission November 23, 2016
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  • Radio Ecoshock: Climate Is A Living Thing December 4, 2019

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  • For the Abolition of the Wages System! June 18, 2015
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  • Keynes "hadn't got round to it" May 25, 2015
  • Napoleon Solow and the Phantom Mechanism May 20, 2015

RSS Ecological Sociology

  • Commons Enabling Infrastucture August 31, 2013
  • A Short History of Progress: Book Review August 26, 2013
  • Foucault, Power, Truth and Ecology August 14, 2013

RSS Ecologise

  • Beggars as choosers: Why India’s poor opt to beg December 5, 2019
  • Oil is the new data: How Big Tech and Big Oil collaborate December 2, 2019
  • Welcome to the global rebellion against neoliberalism November 30, 2019
  • How caste shapes water conflicts in drought-ridden Maharashtra November 26, 2019
  • 55 ways to ‘starve the beast’ November 25, 2019
  • The scientists who predicted Australia’s bushfire emergency decades ago November 22, 2019
  • Bolivia, Brazil and South America’s never-ending resource curse November 19, 2019
  • The Great Water Grab: Wall Street is buying up the world’s water November 16, 2019
  • Catabolism: The final phase of Capitalism November 13, 2019
  • The fate of Ladakh in the Age of Ambani November 10, 2019

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  • The Great Flood … November 19, 2019
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  • Manliness is a Warm Gun (Bang Bang Shoot Shoot): A colloquy with David French of the National Review August 6, 2019
  • Witness for the non-Prosecution: Mueller, Pelosi and Trump's Likely Triumph July 24, 2019

RSS Empirical Magazine

  • From the Empirical Archives: Genius or Folly? August 30, 2013
  • From the Empirical Archives: Nights Such as These August 29, 2013
  • From the Empirical Archives: Second Time Foster Child August 28, 2013

RSS EmptyWheel

  • Joshua Schulte: The Alleged Vault 7 and CIA Election Spying Leaker?
  • France Strikes, with Firefighters at Center Stage
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RSS Energy Balance

  • The Uninhabitable Earth. July 14, 2019
  • Solving the Plastic Problem: From Cradle to Grave, to Reincarnation! April 25, 2019
  • Plastic Pollution and Potential Solutions. April 12, 2019
  • Energy Return on Investment (EROI). March 16, 2019
  • Only 12 Years Left to Readjust for the 1.5 Degree Climate Change Option – says IPCC Report. Current Commentary. March 1, 2019
  • The Fracking Illusion February 16, 2019

RSS Environment & Food Justice

  • National Association for Chicana and Chicano Studies Statement on the Climate Crisis October 31, 2019
  • La Lucha por La Sierra | Scion of Texas Oil Barons Seeks to Overturn Historic Use Rights to the Sangre de Cristo Land Grant August 30, 2018
  • Biopiracy in Mexico | Foundation stealing wild beehives in Yucatán June 14, 2018

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RSS Extraenvironmentalist Blog and Podcasts

  • [ Episode #95 // Economy of Things ] January 28, 2017
  • [ Episode #94 // Rocking the Google Bus ] October 25, 2016
  • [ Episode #93 // Climate Agreements ] September 5, 2016

RSS ExtraEnvironmentalist’s Videos

  • [ Rick Wolff // A Cure for Capitalism ]
    Professor Rick Wolff explains why growth has become a focus of our modern political system. He describes how inequality is created by the way our enterprises are organized. Because a significant portion of our lives are at work, how would our society look if democratic businesses became the new normal? What would be the environmental and social implications […]
  • [ Firefly Gathering ]
    The Firefly Gathering offers a wide range of classes for adults and children on primitive skills, permaculture, nature connection, and eco-homesteading that are designed to be able to be applied to enhance everyday life. The gathering gathers a bevy of inspiring, amazing people. Besides classes it offers evening entertainment, basic infrastructure, and on-si […]

RSS ExtraGeographic

  • Brexit, empire and cultural dementia. David Andress demolishes lazy nationalism
    A leave voter at the Save Brexit Rally wants Brexit so that Britain can “get back to being a British Empire”.… Read more
  • Brexit explained in three tweets
    Three recent tweets encapsulate the misinformation, corruption and mess of Brexit Britain. They’re a window into a peculiar time. The UK government’s Department for International Trade (DIT) “helps businesses export, drives inward and outward investment, negotiates market access and trade deals, and champions free trade”.… Read more
  • Ann Pettifor on Carillion: ‘a grand Ponzi scheme’
    In a recent interview Ann Pettifor, global financial analyst, spoke about the corrupted crony capitalism that led to the collapse of Carillion, a major Government contractor.… Read more
  • James Joyce in summary: escape is a key theme in his work
    Throughout his life James Joyce attempted to escape – from war, religion, convention, narrative structure, language… “When the soul of a man is born in this country there are nets flung at it to hold it back from flight.… Read more
  • Jeremy Clarkson buys an electric car: an optimistic vision of the UK’s EV future
    A nation’s stories play a large part in its future. Established ideas become conventional wisdom in social institutions. The institutions then draw on this wisdom when enacting public policy.… Read more

RSS Facts for Working People

  • US Society: Extreme Wealth And Growing Poverty an Explosive Mix. December 7, 2019
  • Understanding socialism December 6, 2019
  • Don't Fall Prey to the Right Wing Slander on Corbyn. December 6, 2019

RSS Fair: Fairness & Accuracy in Reporting

  • Wired’s Gee-Whiz High-Tech Militarism August 7, 2019
  • NBC News Whitewashes Colombia’s Right-Wing President July 2, 2019
  • Decades After False Convictions, ‘When They See Us’ Highlights Media Failure June 7, 2019

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RSS Farooque Chowdhury’s Diary

  • Road rage faces student spirit August 4, 2018
  • Fires within the Arctic Circle July 28, 2018
  • A Facebook post on quota mobilisation July 14, 2018

RSS Feasta

  • Islands in the Flood December 6, 2019
  • Submittal to the United States House Select Committee on the Climate Crisis November 28, 2019
  • The Economics of Arrival: Review November 22, 2019

RSS FireDogLake

  • Dissenter Weekly Update: Whistleblower Deported To Honduras, Walmart Whistleblower Exposes Tax Dodging December 6, 2019
  • Protest Song Of The Week: ‘She Showed Me Love’ By Neil Young and Crazy Horse December 4, 2019
  • Beyond Prisons: Instead Of Calling The Cops December 2, 2019
  • Dissenter Weekly Update: Whistleblower Concerns Over Trump Gutting Asylum, WikiLeaks Publishes OPCW Whistleblower Email November 27, 2019

RSS Fish Out of Water

  • Ohio Doctors who don't "reimplant ectopic pregnancy" face "abortion murder" charge under new bill November 29, 2019
  • ISIS has breached several prisons in northern Syria while U.S. flees bases bombed by Turks October 11, 2019
  • Elizabeth Warren Rocked Rock Hill, South Carolina September 30, 2019
  • Trump Regime goes full Kafka: retro classifies e-mails forwarded to Hillary & attacks her staff September 29, 2019
  • Typhoon Faxai in Tokyo Bay with Record Winds & Rains, 230,000 Evacuated, Floods & Landslides September 8, 2019
  • Hurricane Dorian: the Good, the Bad & the Ugly August 29, 2019

RSS Foreign Confidential

  • CCNY Declares "Year Of Film," Celebrates Hans Richter March 7, 2019
  • Exploring Greenland January 10, 2019
  • Dominican Republic Facts That Make You Want to Travel January 10, 2019
  • Celebrating the Legacy of George F. Kennan, Containment's Father February 20, 2018

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RSS Get Real List: Chris Nelder

  • My new gig December 5, 2015
  • Announcing the Energy Transition Show October 14, 2015
  • Guest appearance on The Energy Gang podcast May 14, 2015

RSS Gil Smart

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  • With Gil Smart on guns, the NRA January 19, 2015
  • Gil Smart makes sense May 19, 2014
  • Right on, Gil Smart February 17, 2014

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RSS Global Guerrillas

  • The Long Night is Coming January 4, 2019
  • Disruption, Drones, and Big Airports December 20, 2018

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RSS Global Oneness Project

  • Earthrise September 19, 2019

RSS Global Research

  • House Judiciary Committee Sham Ukrainegate Hearings December 7, 2019
  • Turkey’s Military Drones: An Export Product that’s Disrupting NATO December 7, 2019
  • 70th NATO Anniversary Shows Alliance Is More Divided than Ever December 7, 2019

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  • 9/11 and the War on Terror - Michel Chossudovsky on GRTV (2016) September 11, 2019
  • NATO EXIT: Michel Chossudovsky April 4, 2019
  • Khashoggi and the Take Down of MbS - Global Research interviews Whitney Webb November 25, 2018

RSS Gonzalo Lira

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RSS Green is the New Red

  • Trump Supporter Promises Legislation to Label Protest as “Economic Terrorism” November 22, 2016
  • Violence against environmentalists is now at an all-time high July 8, 2016
  • “To Build a Fire”: New Split EP With “Old Lines” and Will Potter June 13, 2016
  • “It changes who you are—forever. What you do with that change is what defines who you are.” April 28, 2016
  • Exclusive: New Virtual Reality Investigation Goes Inside Factory Farms April 13, 2016
  • New Sticker — Animal Rights Activists Must “Join or Die” February 22, 2016
  • “Truth and Power” TV series features Will Potter on “eco-terrorism,” ag-gag laws, and investigative journalism February 15, 2016
  • This woman rowed straight into a hurricane. And you should too. February 11, 2016
  • 6 Lessons From How the FBI and Media Treat Militia Groups January 12, 2016
  • Here’s How One Activist Convinced the FBI to Leave Him Alone December 7, 2015

RSS Green on Huffington Post

  • Trump Wants The EPA To Focus On Toilet Flushing December 7, 2019
  • Greta Thunberg Joins Massive Protest At Site Of UN Climate Summit December 6, 2019
  • Christmas Trees May Be Pricier And Harder To Find This Year. Here's Why. December 5, 2019
  • Electric Eel Powering Aquarium’s Christmas Lights December 4, 2019
  • Politicians And CEOs Could Face Criminal Charges For Environmental Destruction December 4, 2019
  • Jason Momoa Goes Full Drogo On Chris Pratt's Single-Use Plastic Water Bottle December 4, 2019
  • Global Carbon Emissions Will Hit A Record High In 2019... Again. December 4, 2019
  • Beached Sperm Whale Found With 220 Pounds Of Trash In Its Stomach December 3, 2019

RSS Greenpeace Blogs

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RSS Greg Palast

  • Stacey Abrams Takes a Big Step Forward to Combat Georgia’s Massive Voter Purges November 26, 2019
  • Stacey Abrams Hires Palast Investigations Teamfor Massive Federal Suit to Restore Voting Rights November 25, 2019

RSS Gregor Macdonald

  • Oil Fall December 31, 2018

RSS Grinning Planet

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RSS Grist

  • Getting rid of pollution improves public health a lot faster than you’d think December 6, 2019
  • In ‘Frozen II,’ Anna and Elsa fight climate change instead of bad guys December 6, 2019
  • Here’s what it would look like if fossil fuel ads had warning labels December 6, 2019
  • ‘Dark Waters’ tells the origin story of a public health nightmare. We’re still living it. December 5, 2019

RSS Growth Busters

  • Don’t Make Me Stop this Spaceship! (podcast episode 36) November 15, 2019
  • Decoupling Nonsense (podcast episode 35) October 30, 2019
  • Coming Out as Childfree (podcast episode 34) October 4, 2019
  • Is the End Near? (Podcast episode 33) August 15, 2019

RSS Guernica Mag

  • Portrait of a Boy with Grief December 6, 2019
  • Everything Hiding the Secret of Its Taste December 5, 2019
  • Lilly Dancyger: There Are So Many Different Ways to Be Angry December 3, 2019
  • Coming into Bloom November 26, 2019

RSS Guy McPherson’s Blog

  • NBL Radio Airs Live Today, 3 December 2019 December 3, 2019
  • Weekly Hubris Essay, December 2019 December 2, 2019

RSS Health After Oil

  • Public Health’s Response to Decline: Loyalty to the 1% December 15, 2014

RSS Hot Topic: Global Warming and the Future of New Zealand

  • Postcards from La La Land #132: time warps and twaddle June 7, 2018
  • The final cut: crank paper on NZ temperature record gets its rebuttal – warming continues unabated May 2, 2018
  • Anthropogenic climate change is real: pithy post-punk anthem for the Trump generation December 9, 2017

RSS How to Save the World

  • The World’s Most Blessed Agnostic December 3, 2019
  • Dave’s Favourite Songs of the 2010s November 27, 2019
  • Why Music Is Like Sex November 25, 2019

RSS I am Not a Number

  • Your Slavery is their Freedom | George Monbiot August 3, 2019
  • Is it time for a campaign of social disobedience to refuse payment of the BBC licence fee? July 12, 2019
  • The deserving rich and the undeserving poor… June 18, 2019

RSS I Cite

  • Untitled July 18, 2019
  • America's obsession with rooting out communism is making a comeback September 25, 2018
  • Communist party members may still be barred from US citizenship September 25, 2018
  • APSA2018 Unite Here -- Solidarity picket at Sheraton Hotel 1:00 August 30, 2018
  • Legitimating Torture: The American Political Science Association Gives Award to Condolezza Rice -- Political Scientists Push Back Letter August 28, 2018

RSS Iamronen

  • Consequences November 30, 2019
  • Deepest Insights November 30, 2019
  • Palpable Organic Tension November 18, 2019
  • Yoga Practice – Prayer Withing Closing Ritual November 2019 November 15, 2019
  • Wholehearted November 15, 2019

RSS Ian Welsh

  • Killing Herd Animals December 5, 2019

RSS Idea Explorer

  • C-low September 14, 2019
  • Redefining Waste August 30, 2019
  • A Brief History of Simulated Wealth August 22, 2019
  • Focus on the Future June 28, 2019
  • A Simulated World January 10, 2019

RSS Idea Explorer – Big Pic Explorer

  • Survival of the Realists May 9, 2015
  • Last Years May 3, 2015
  • Accelerating extinction risk from climate change May 1, 2015

RSS Idea Explorer: Land of Conscience

  • Memories of Value July 23, 2019
  • Transitions July 4, 2019
  • Accidents of Birth November 6, 2018

RSS If You Love This Planet – Helen Caldicott

  • Steven Starr, Bruce Gagnon and William Hartung at the Dynamics of Possible Nuclear Extinction symposium April 18, 2017
  • Dr. Helen Caldicott, Ted Postol, Max Tegmark and Alan Robock at The Dynamics of Possible Nuclear Extinction symposium June 23, 2016
  • Dr. Caldicott’s October 2014 speech: The Ukraine Crisis, Is Nuclear Conflict Likely? February 17, 2015
  • Dr. Helen Caldicott interviewed by Bob Herbert about her latest book, “Loving This Planet” December 28, 2012

RSS Indybay Features

  • Youth Led Movement Calls For National Climate Strike on December 6
  • Indymedia Fighting Spirit Carries on 20 Years After Seattle Protests
  • Ann Coulter Protest Draws Over a Thousand Demonstrators
  • Solidarity with Chile's Rebellion in San Francisco

RSS Indybay Newswire

  • Laughing Trump Out of Office
  • Grace Blakeley: The World Must be Saved from Financialization
  • Homelessness policy shift from Housing First to criminalization of the unhoused
  • Consequences of Inequality Within Sonoma County
  • The Shortwave Report 12/06/19 Listen Globally!

RSS Information Clearing House

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RSS Inside Left – The OFFICIAL Anti-Olympics Blog™

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RSS Institute for Public Accuracy

  • Video: Biden Questioned on Climate Advisor’s $1 Million from Fossil Fuel Company December 6, 2019
  • * French General Strike * The Attacks on Corbyn December 5, 2019
  • Russophobia, Ukraine and the 2016 Election December 4, 2019
  • Warsaw Pact is Gone, Why Does NATO Exist? December 2, 2019
  • Thanksgiving? Bolivian Coup Targeting Indigenous People November 27, 2019
  • Progressives Vote to Extend Patriot Act November 27, 2019

RSS International Debt Observatory

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RSS iWatch: Global Muckraking

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RSS Jack Nelson-Pallmeyer Blog

  • Five Things We Need to Know About the “Fiscal Cliff” December 10, 2012
  • Wasteful Pentagon Spending and Costly Wars Hurting Minnesota Communities November 6, 2012

RSS Jacobin

  • Joe Biden Reminded Us That He’s Just Another Liberal Elitist December 6, 2019
  • How Mindfulness Morphed from Ancient Spiritual Practice to Big Business December 6, 2019
  • Everything You Need to Know About the Protests in Iraq December 6, 2019
  • Arts for the Many December 6, 2019
  • This UK General Election Is a Choice Between Imperialism and Internationalism December 6, 2019
  • The Tories Are Literally Dying Off December 6, 2019

RSS Jeremy Scahill

  • From the Rubble of the U.S. War in Iraq, Iran Built a New Order November 18, 2019

RSS Jill Stein

  • Occupy Inauguration November 21, 2016
  • Farmer's Market on Sundays June 25, 2013

RSS Joe Bageant

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RSS John Cook Video Uploads

  • Drawing a cartoon cameo for the Cranky Uncle game November 29, 2019
  • Giving climate denial the FLICC May 5, 2019
  • Talk on science communication at Texas A&M April 30, 2019
  • Marco Rubio: logically false argument about past climate change August 13, 2018

RSS John Hively

  • Eight Men Own More Wealth Than the Bottom Half of Humanity November 30, 2019
  • Warren’s Wealth Tax is Nothing New November 23, 2019

RSS John Pilger

  • VISITING BRITAIN’S POLITICAL PRISONER

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RSS John W. Whitehead

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RSS John Zerzan: Anarchy Radio

  • Anarchy Radio 12 03 2019 December 4, 2019
  • Anarchy Radio 11 26 2019 November 27, 2019
  • Anarchy Radio 11 19 2019 November 20, 2019

RSS Jonathan Turley

  • Impeaching By The Gross? Green Says House Could Impeach Trump Repeatedly December 6, 2019
  • Musk Defamation Trial Continues With Discussion Of His Wealth Before The Jury December 6, 2019
  • “Demonstrably False”: It Is Not True That The Johnson and Clinton Impeachments Had Shorter Impeachment Investigations December 5, 2019
  • “Agitated Passions”: A Response To Chairman Nadler Et Al. December 5, 2019

RSS Karl Grossman

  • I've switched from this site to my website -- www.karlgrossman.com -- for my blog. November 29, 2015
  • The End of Police Raids -- at Long Last -- on Gays of Fire Island July 1, 2015
  • "Fire Island Was Paradise,Truly Paradise" June 21, 2015
  • My First Big Story June 1, 2015
  • Disaster Waiting to Happen at Indian Point May 12, 2015

RSS Karl North Eco-Intelligence

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RSS Kate Ausburn

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RSS Keith Farnish

  • Uprooting Civilization (Part 2) May 7, 2014
  • Uprooting Civilization (Part 1) February 21, 2014
  • The Problem With…Conspiracy Theories January 7, 2014

RSS Knight Science Journalism – MIT

  • Science and Surveillance: Western Institutions Consider Role in China’s Uighur Crackdown December 6, 2019
  • From Skull to Skin, a Quirky Tour of the Human Body December 6, 2019
  • Graduate Students Do Real Work. Let Us Unionize. December 5, 2019
  • Unpacking the Black Box in Artificial Intelligence for Medicine December 4, 2019
  • Nail Products Expose Salon Workers to Hazardous Chemicals December 3, 2019

RSS Kulture Critic

  • Patience, A Personal Reflection on Life and Its Impermanence July 31, 2018

RSS Kunstler Cast

  • John B. McLemore Email to JHK: Huffing gas fumes in shittown alabama June 1, 2017
  • Release: S-Town Podcast Prequel: KunstlerCast Ready for Binge Listening May 31, 2017
  • KunstlerCast: S-Town May 31, 2017
  • James Howard Kunstler on John B. McLemore of S-Town May 31, 2017
  • Transcript: KunstlerCast: S-Town May 31, 2017

RSS Kurt Kobb

  • Economists and climate change: Building castles in the sky December 1, 2019

RSS Lack of Environment

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RSS Law and Disorder

  • Law and Disorder December 2, 2019 December 1, 2019
  • Law and Disorder November 25, 2019 November 24, 2019
  • Law and Disorder November 18, 2019 November 17, 2019

RSS Le Monde diplomatique – English edition

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RSS Le Monde diplomatique – Open Page

  • Shattering the conspiracy of silence
  • Turkey and Russia redraw the map in northeast Syria
  • This must be called murder
  • Bolivia's coup
  • Algeria's massive movement for change

RSS Leaving Babylon

  • How I beat the Reaper April 21, 2019

RSS Lee Camp

  • Corrupt Rulers Have Captured Our Legal System (Lee Camp Stand-Up Comedy) December 5, 2019
  • The Dark Secret About Human Rights Watch (Moment of Clarity) December 4, 2019
  • Common Censored #85 – Corbyn Rises, Kamala Harris Crashes, & The Climate Cop(25) Out December 4, 2019
  • NYPD Churro Crackdown [VIDEO] December 3, 2019
  • LIVE Stand Up Comedy in Philadelphia – SHOW MOVED To Ruba Club! December 2, 2019
  • VIP #183 – The Assassination of JFK & Mary Meyer: REVEALED! December 1, 2019

RSS Lee Fang

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RSS Life Itself

  • Global fossil fuel and US gas production and forecasts August 28, 2019
  • Global primary energy and US oil production and forecasts August 21, 2019
  • Green New Deal VII - Ideas Matter August 10, 2019

RSS Limited, Inc.

  • the strike in France December 5, 2019
  • No time for Political Nostalgia December 4, 2019
  • all the Karen Chamisso poems so far December 2, 2019

RSS Link TV – Earth Focus

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RSS Low-Tech Magazine

  • The Printed Website: Second Volume Out Now December 5, 2019
  • Mist Showers: Sustainable Decadence? October 17, 2019
  • How to Make Wind Power Sustainable Again June 2, 2019

RSS LRB Blog

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RSS Luis J. Rodriguez

  • New Year's Message 2017: Regeneration in a time of crisis January 1, 2017
  • Los Angeles Poets and the Temper of Our Times December 14, 2016
  • From an Indigenous Mind: Four Connections December 14, 2016

RSS Mabinogogiblog

  • The Joy of Transition November 25, 2019
  • REMEMBRANCE of LIES and TRUTH November 16, 2019
  • Recognising Ecocide November 15, 2019
  • Johnson's Response to Cancellation of Brexit on October 31st October 29, 2019

RSS Manicore – Accueil

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RSS Marginal Revolution

  • Germany fact of the day December 7, 2019
  • *The Korean Mind: Understanding Contemporary Korean Culture* December 7, 2019
  • Friday assorted links December 6, 2019

RSS Mark Biskeborn – Underground Essays

  • Kafkaesque November 11, 2014
  • Larry Summers Still Living Large April 9, 2013
  • War and Corruption Deficits: Insects and Leviathans January 21, 2013
  • Breaking News: Lt. Col. Shaffer Accuses Former CIA Dir. Tenet December 29, 2012

RSS Mark Fiore

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RSS Mark Lynas

  • ‘The single most important goal of the candidates’ climate plan’ – CNN.com September 6, 2019
  • The planet is being consumed by humans – CNN.com August 8, 2019
  • UK and Trump miles apart on climate change – CNN.com June 3, 2019
  • Climate change: The more we know, the worse it seems – CNN.com January 26, 2019
  • 5 April 2018 – Seeds of Science published in the UK! April 5, 2018

RSS Martin Wolf

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RSS Matt Bruenig

  • Trump NLRB Smashed Google Guy February 17, 2018
  • Neoliberals Used to Refer to Themselves as New Democrats December 22, 2017
  • Alabama Part II December 16, 2017

RSS Matt Taibbi

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RSS Matt Wuerker

  • Cartoon: Freedom of speech is absolute, but... April 30, 2015
  • Cartoon: Clinton Inc April 23, 2015
  • Cartoon: Reince's Women Issues April 16, 2015
  • Cartoon: The way to win April 9, 2015
  • No Cake for you! April 2, 2015

RSS Max Keiser

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RSS Media Lens

  • Reopening Auschwitz – The Conspiracy To Stop Corbyn December 3, 2019
  • Imperial Ambition – Expanding Selves, Shrinking Planet November 21, 2019
  • Unfree Media – State Stenography And Shameful Silence November 6, 2019

RSS Media Matters – Environment

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RSS Media Matters – Everything

  • Fox guest on possible troop withdrawal from Afghanistan: "The solution is more blood, sweat, and tears" 
  • Fox host defends Trump: "Just because you use harsh language doesn't mean your intent is to denigrate another race"
  • Fox News is talking more about abortion than the Democratic debates did

RSS Media Roots

  • Empire Files: Chris Hedges & Abby Martin: No Way Out Through Elections December 3, 2019
  • Going Underground RT: Abby Martin- Netanyahu Should Be Indicted for War Crimes! ‘Gaza Fights for Freedom!’ November 24, 2019
  • Media Roots Radio: Fox News Civil War, Iraq Protests, Big Structural BS & The Stephen Miller Leaks November 24, 2019

RSS Methane Hydrates

  • Joint New Zealand - German 3D survey reveals massive seabed gas hydrate and methane system May 12, 2014
  • Noctilucent clouds: further confirmation of large methane releases December 10, 2013
  • Earthquake M6.7 hits Sea of Okhotsk October 2, 2013

RSS Michael Hudson

  • Keiser News Spin November 18, 2019
  • The new concept of ‘Reform’ November 4, 2019
  • Baltic perspectives with The Saker October 20, 2019

RSS Michael Miller – Viewpoint

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RSS Michael Parenti

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RSS Mike Philbin – Free Planet

  • Star Citizen - Insta Finger - removes Inner Thought and minimizes visual clutter November 8, 2019
  • OUR ELECTRIC MOON October 21, 2019
  • Best Real-time in-game Physics engine EVER by Dennis Gustafsson September 13, 2019

RSS Mondoweiss

  • Omar, Tlaib, Ocasio-Cortez, and Pressley only Dems to oppose Israel resolution that omits all mentions of occupation December 6, 2019
  • Tom Friedman condemns Iran for shooting protesters, but finds it ‘easy’ to defend Israel for doing same December 6, 2019

RSS Mons Angelorum: Deadly Serious 3

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RSS Mons Angelorum: Waiting for Good Weather

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RSS Mother Jones

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RSS MR Zine

  • Yoshie Furuhashi, "After MRZine" January 1, 2017
  • Louis Allday, "Controlling the Narrative on Syria" December 14, 2016
  • Marta Harnecker, "Fidel, Today and Forever" December 11, 2016
  • Prabhat Patnaik, "Developing 'Infrastructure'" December 9, 2016
  • Susie Day, "Forward Ever, Normal Never: Taking Down Donald Trump" December 6, 2016
  • Samir Amin, "The Election of Donald Trump" December 1, 2016

RSS Musings on Iraq

  • Pro-Iran Hashd Stab Protesters In Baghdad’s Tahrir Square December 6, 2019
  • This Day In Iraqi History - Dec 6 December 6, 2019
  • Iraq’s Oil Exports Remain Stable in November 2019 December 5, 2019

RSS Nafeez Ahmed

  • IDF's Gaza assault is to control Palestinian gas, avert Israeli energy crisis | Nafeez Ahmed July 9, 2014
  • World Bank and UN carbon offset scheme 'complicit' in genocidal land grabs - NGOs | Nafeez Ahmed July 3, 2014
  • The open source revolution is coming and it will conquer the 1% - ex CIA spy | Nafeez Ahmed June 19, 2014
  • Iraq blowback: Isis rise manufactured by insatiable oil addiction June 16, 2014

RSS Naked Capitalism

  • The Geography of EU Discontent December 7, 2019
  • Financialization of the U.S. Pharmaceutical Industry December 7, 2019
  • 2:00PM Water Cooler 12/6/2019 December 6, 2019
  • US Targets Wage-Repression Model in Mexico, Demands Inspections, Industry Has a Cow December 6, 2019
  • Links 12/6/19 December 6, 2019

RSS Naomi Klein

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RSS Naomi Klein – Guardian.UK

  • Naomi Klein on how politics can solve the climate crisis - podcast October 24, 2019
  • 'We have a once-in-century chance': Naomi Klein on how we can fight the climate crisis September 14, 2019

RSS Nature Protects, As She is Protected

  • No Name Calling Please, Give Us Evidence Which Proves GM Crops Are Safe March 30, 2017
  • Let’s Be Honest About Genetically Modified Crops March 9, 2017

RSS Navdanya’s Diary

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RSS New Internationalist

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RSS New World Notes

  • Thanksgiving, Conquest, Genocide November 17, 2019
  • The Terror Threat October 28, 2019
  • Searching for the Authentic on a Motorcycle October 22, 2019

RSS News Junkie Post

  • The Surrealism of the Information War March 16, 2019
  • India: Noise of War in the Time of Elections March 13, 2019
  • Can Maduro Emulate Castro and Assad to Keep NATO’s Imperialist Hands Off Venezuela? February 16, 2019
  • Oceania, Eurasia and Eastasia Merger: Global Empire of Dystopia? February 8, 2019
  • Neofascist Push for Europe’s Implosion Is Not in EU Members National Interest January 14, 2019
  • Gilets Jaunes: Catalyst for a Global Movement? January 9, 2019

RSS NOAA: Monthly State of the Climate Report

  • October 2019 National Climate Report

RSS Notes from the Aboveground

  • On Inequality July 27, 2015
  • Shameless is as shameless does July 21, 2015

RSS NYT Examiner

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RSS Occupy.com

  • Green New Deal, Part IV: Britain's Snap Election Offers a Life or Death Choice November 29, 2019
  • What Democrats and Progressives Can Learn from Louisiana’s Gubernatorial Election November 29, 2019
  • Act Out! [233] - Chile, Bolivia and AFRICOM: Imperialism, Revolution & What We Must Ask Of Ourselves November 13, 2019
  • Act Out! [232] - Open Wounds, Open Wars: Veterans and the Fight for Our Lives, Against Empire November 6, 2019
  • Americans Love Youth Activism – But Only When Their Children Agree With Them November 1, 2019
  • Green New Deal, Part III: Convert the War Machine to Green Industry and #RiseUpForRojava October 28, 2019
  • New York Fed: Coastal Cities Are Most Prosperous, But Also Most Unequal October 27, 2019
  • Act Out! [231] - Grassroots From the Treetops October 22, 2019

RSS Occupy las Vegas

  • Online Casino Paypal October 17, 2019
  • Echtgeld Casino App October 17, 2019
  • Bestes Online Casino October 17, 2019

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RSS Oddity Central

  • Manipulative Woman Allegedly Pushed Two Men into “Medieval Duel to the Death” to Win Her Hand December 6, 2019
  • Parents Punish Teen Daughter By Taking Over Her Social Media for Two Weeks December 6, 2019
  • Banana Duct-Taped to White Wall at Art Gallery Sells for $120,000 December 6, 2019
  • 1,750 People Que Up to View an Apartment for Rent in Berlin December 5, 2019
  • Airline To Open Chain of Restaurants That Sell Airplane Food December 5, 2019
  • Japanese Company Pays People to Be Filmed in Their Own Homes for a Month December 4, 2019

RSS Of Two Minds

  • Suppressing Dissent Guarantees Disorder and Collapse December 6, 2019
  • Costs Are Spiraling Out of Control December 5, 2019
  • Crunchtime: When Events Outrun Plan B December 4, 2019

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RSS One Struggle – South Florida

  • Batay La Film Screening November 18, 2019
  • Lessons from Haiti: Demarcate to Unite November 4, 2019
  • Sprouting Theory: What Fascism Is August 27, 2019
  • Sprouting Theory: “What Fascism ISN’T” August 18, 2019

RSS Orion Magazine

  • Orion Partners with the 18th Annual Wild & Scenic Film Festival December 5, 2019
  • Amitav Ghosh on Literature and Climate Coincidence November 27, 2019
  • Solastalgia: Naiads of the New World November 22, 2019

RSS Our Finite World

  • Do the World’s Energy Policies Make Sense? November 14, 2019
  • How Renewable Energy Models Can Produce Misleading Indications October 24, 2019
  • Understanding Why the Green New Deal Won’t Really Work October 2, 2019

RSS Pando Daily

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RSS Paul Haeder

  • Hooked on Orcas December 6, 2019
  • Trading Chihuahua Desert Hardscrabble for Coast Range Wet December 4, 2019
  • Should We Trust Science? November 16, 2019

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RSS Paul L. Street

  • The Capitalist War on the Last American Commons November 22, 2019
  • Money Talks, Bullshit Walks on Cable News November 22, 2019
  • All That is Holy is Profaned: Beyond Ruling Class Trumpeachment November 13, 2019
  • Bernie in the Deep Shit: Dismal Dem Debate Reflections October 29, 2019

RSS PBD – Progressive Blog Digest

  • THE NEXT STEP December 6, 2019
  • HISTORIC December 5, 2019
  • THE BLUEPRINT December 4, 2019

RSS PeakOil.com News

  • Africa To Supply Big Chunk Of Global Natural Gas By 2025? December 5, 2019
  • Prelude to a Disaster December 5, 2019
  • Oil Prices Advance on Iraq Revelation December 5, 2019

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RSS People Before Profit Blog

  • "Blacklisted Again" Michael Berkowitz on "Trumbo" by Norman Markowitz December 10, 2015
  • A Corrected and Updated Version of The "Madness" of Donald Trump by Norman Markowitz December 9, 2015
  • The "Madness" of Donald Trump by Norman Markowitz December 8, 2015

RSS Phlegm

  • "we fight each other while it devours us" Belgium June 2017 December 1, 2017
  • West Didsbury Manchester. May 2017 December 1, 2017
  • Dulwich picture gallery. April 25th 2017 December 1, 2017

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RSS Physicist-Retired Newsvine

  • Dramatic changes in Arctic sea ice
  • It's a Myth That Entrepreneurs Drive New Technology - For real innovation, thank the state
  • Up to half of all birds threatened by climate change - New Scientist

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RSS Political Violence @ a Glance

  • Is Political Protest Contagious? December 3, 2019
  • Your 5 Questions on Russian Meddling Answered November 27, 2019
  • Coups, protests, and violence: What to expect in Bolivia November 25, 2019

RSS Popular Resistance

  • Labor Took On “Bad Bosses” Long Before #MeToo December 6, 2019
  • Wealthy Countries’ Approach To Climate Change Condemns Hundreds Of Millions Of People To Suffer December 6, 2019
  • RIP Fred Hampton: A Black Visionary Assassinated By The FBI December 6, 2019
  • ‘David-and-Goliath Story’ As Texas Environmental Activist Diane Wilson Wins $50 Million Judgment Against Plastics Giant Formosa December 6, 2019

RSS PRN with Danny Schechter

  • The Gary Null Show – 08.15.16 August 15, 2016
  • Leid Stories – Election 2016: Primaries Deliver A Big Payday for Clinton, An Inevitable Payout for Sanders – 06.08.16 June 8, 2016
  • The Gary Null Show – 05.10.16 May 10, 2016
  • Meditations and Molotovs – 05.02.16 May 2, 2016
  • Focus on the Facts – 02.29.16 February 29, 2016
  • Warrior Connection – 02.28.16 February 29, 2016
  • Resistance Radio – Darcia Narvaez – 02.28.16 February 29, 2016
  • Meria Heller Show – 02.28.16 February 28, 2016
  • Expat Files – 02.28.16 February 28, 2016

RSS Progressive Radio Network

  • Alternative Visions – Trump, Impeachment & Decline of Democracy in America + A solution December 6, 2019
  • Leid Stories–Surely You Have Something to Day About the Events of This Week and What’s Ahead–12.06.19 December 6, 2019
  • The Gary Null Show – 12.06.19 December 6, 2019
  • The Whistleblower Newsroom – INTELLIGENCE VETERAN SCOTT RITTER December 6, 2019
  • INSIGHT – GIRL THAT LONGED FOR GRIDIRON PLAYS & BUYS PRO TEAM – TOUGH LOVE MINUS THE LOVE PROPELLS SUPER MODEL TARA PACE December 6, 2019
  • Hold Big Pharma #RxAccountable for Dangerous Drugs December 6, 2019

RSS ProPublica

  • Carlos’ Family Objects to Publication of Video Detailing His Death December 7, 2019
  • Chemical Companies Are Building Their Plants Overseas and Shipping Them Back In. They Still Get State Tax Breaks. December 6, 2019
  • House Chairman Says Trump Administration Misled Congress on Boy’s Death in Custody December 6, 2019
  • We Asked Public Universities for Their Professors’ Conflicts of Interest — and Got the Runaround December 6, 2019
  • Medical Professors are Supposed to Share Their Outside Income With the University of California. But Many Don’t. December 6, 2019

RSS Project Censored

  • Misuse of Police and Jails to Respond to Medical and Economic Problems December 2, 2019
  • Professor Sounds Alarm on Democracy’s Self-Cannibalism December 2, 2019
  • Virginia Prisons Thwarted Muslim Inmates’ Rights to Observe Ramadan December 2, 2019

RSS Public Intelligence

  • (U//FOUO) TSA Vehicle Ramming Attacks Report April 2019
  • Department of State OSAC Guide: Basic Evasive Driving Techniques
  • U.S. Army Doctrine Publication: Defense Support of Civil Authorities July 2019
  • U.S. Northern Command Federal Reserve System (FRS) Support Branch Plan
  • (U//FOUO) National Reconnaissance Office Acquisition Manual Change Prohibiting Procurement from Huawei, ZTE, and Other Chinese Companies
  • FBI Cyber Bulletin: Cyber Criminals Use Social Engineering and Technical Attacks to Circumvent Multi-Factor Authentication
  • (U//FOUO) U.S. Marine Corps AK47 Maintenance Manual
  • (U//FOUO) U.S. Marine Corps AK47 Operator’s Manual
  • U.K. Operation Yellowhammer No-Deal Brexit Worst Case Planning Assumptions Document
  • (U//FOUO) DHS Intelligence Bulletin: Worldwide Terrorist Operations Linked to Lebanese Hizballah or Iran

RSS Pulse

  • Bosnia, Kosovo, Syria: Western Inaction and Radicalisation December 1, 2019
  • How Social Media Companies Enable the Far Right October 26, 2019
  • The Strangers’ Case October 15, 2019
  • Zachariah Mampilly – Africa Uprising: Popular Protest and Political Change September 25, 2019

RSS Quartz

  • Economists struggle to figure out where Africa’s informal economy starts or where it ends December 6, 2019
  • 2019 was the year electric cars grew up December 6, 2019
  • American “spy” denied Thanksgiving dinner in Russian prison December 6, 2019
  • The controversial rearrest of a prominent activist and journalist is testing press freedom in Nigeria December 6, 2019
  • Canopy, the biggest player in Canadian cannabis, is finally entering the US December 6, 2019
  • Why France is on strike December 6, 2019
  • My interracial marriage unintentionally became a protest in the Trump era December 6, 2019
  • Trump is trying to make it too expensive for poor American immigrants to stay December 6, 2019
  • The hardest part of being a parent has nothing to do with raising kids December 6, 2019
  • The flawed logic that makes flying a nightmare for wheelchair users December 6, 2019

RSS Question Everything

  • Autumnal Equinox - 2019 September 23, 2019
  • Summer Solstice, 2019 - How the Problem Could be Solved June 21, 2019
  • Untitled May 17, 2019

RSS R-Squared Energy

  • Notice: New R-Squared Is rrapier.com June 3, 2017
  • Contact Information And Blog Migration Update May 19, 2017
  • Guest Post: Offshore Wind Power Cost Update April 20, 2017
  • The Peak Oil Estimate You Won’t Believe: A Tale Of Two Sigmoids March 28, 2017

RSS Rabett Run

  • Off-topic: websites I read in sequence this a.m. November 30, 2019
  • Alternative history: solar PV development in World War 2 November 26, 2019
  • My Mercury News Op-Ed on denial over land use and California wildfires (with a mention of climate change) November 22, 2019

RSS Rabble.Ca

  • Remembering the Montreal Massacre December 6, 2019
  • Remembering the Montreal Massacre December 6, 2019
  • Big Telecom wants to make lower internet prices in Canada virtually impossible December 4, 2019
  • With 5,000 job cuts planned, perpetual chaos returns to Alberta's health system December 1, 2019

RSS Radical Philosophy

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RSS Random Communications from an Evolutionary Edge

  • A wide-ranging interview with me, for your enjoyment November 21, 2019
  • Can a small citizen deliberation have more impact than a giant one? October 27, 2019

RSS RANTINGS ON MARKETS, ECONOMICS AND BUSINESS STRATEGY

  • Jeffrey Epstein: What A Tangled Web He Weaved August 19, 2019
  • Quick Remarks On China And Free Trade Brainwashing August 6, 2019
  • A World Of Unprecedented Evil August 3, 2019

RSS Read the Science

  • IPCC Discovers Infographics – Communicates Climate Change April 11, 2014
  • Show me the Money: Adaptation Finance February 18, 2014
  • The Coffee Grower’s Paradox January 24, 2014
  • Stinking Hot Down Under January 17, 2014
  • Send in the Clouds January 10, 2014

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RSS Real Economics

  • Week-end Wrap – Political Economy – December 1, 2019 December 1, 2019
  • Week-end Wrap – Political Economy – November 24, 2019 November 24, 2019
  • Week-end Wrap – Political Economy – November 17, 2019 November 17, 2019

RSS Real-World Economics Review Blog

  • Foundations of probability 1-3 December 6, 2019
  • Simple economics that most economists don’t know December 6, 2019
  • Transmogrifying Keynes December 5, 2019

RSS Red Pepper

  • Election 2019: The end of neoliberalism in sight? December 5, 2019
  • Small change December 5, 2019
  • Scottish Independence and the England problem December 4, 2019
  • Review – This Is Not A Drill: An Extinction Rebellion Handbook December 2, 2019
  • Election 2019: Transatlantic socialism rising November 30, 2019

RSS Reddit: Environment

  • Time to have the Talk again
  • I’m Bobby Magill, an environment reporter. I’ll be on the ground covering the COP25 climate talks in Madrid. AMA!
  • Calling Him Only 2020 Candidate Whose Plan 'Can Save Our Planet,' US Youth Climate Strike Leaders Endorse Bernie Sanders for President
  • The truth is that the climate crisis is our responsibility, not our children’s
  • Greta: 'They try so desperately to silence us'
  • Florida Considers Abandoning Roads and Homes to Rising Seas

RSS Reddit: Overpopulation – Unending Growth

  • We Must Preserve The Earth's Dwindling Resources For My Five Children
  • 'Soldiers killed seven members of my family' - how sub-Saharan Africa's population boom will pan out
  • What Resources are we NOT going to Run out of?
  • Discover The Basics About Peak Oil & Energy | There's No Tomorrow | Animated Film
  • Hong Kong’s residents living in 'coffin' homes (Is there a correlation between this and the hong kong protests??)

RSS Republic of Lakotah – Mitakuye Oyasin

  • DENVER CELEBRATES THE LIFE AND LEGACY OF RUSSELL MEANS October 19, 2013
  • PEARL MEANS September 8, 2013
  • CONVERSATION WITH LOURDES July 24, 2013

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RSS Richard Heinberg

  • Museletter #324: Our Best Hope for Survival December 5, 2019
  • Museletter #323: Two Arguments for Localism August 27, 2019

RSS Robert Koehler

  • Envisioning a United World December 4, 2019

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RSS Robert Scheer

  • Factory Farm Conditions Are Bad for People Too December 7, 2019

RSS Robert Scribbler

  • Melting Ice Everywhere — Arctic Sea Ice Extent Hit New Record Lows in Late July and Early August August 12, 2019
  • What 2019’s Hotte