Our Disappearing Shoreline
A brief look at the process of shoreline erosion.
Read more...Category Archives: Doomsday scenarios
The Wars We Are Discouraged From Seeing
How the media anesthetizes the American pulblic to our role in wars and their costs.
Read more...How Declining Population Growth Might Portend a Future of Increasing Resource Scarcity
Slowing and stallling population growth could actually increase resource demands.
Read more...Ukraine: Bleeding Out
A plea to analysts and commentators with access to information: when Ukraine runs out of materiel will be decisive.
Read more...Capturing Carbon With Machines Is a Failure—So Why Are We Subsidizing It?
licymakers are funding techno-fixes like carbon capture, when studies indicate nature-based solutions are all-around more effective.
Read more...Ice Melt In the Pipeline
The IPCC has been soft-pedaling realistic, as in alarming, prospects for rapid ice melt and near-term ocean rises.
Read more...As Water Levels Drop, the Risk of Arsenic Poisoning Rises
Dangerous levels of arsenic in well water is another symptom of falling water tables and depleted aquifers.
Read more...Strange, Unpredictable, and Energizing: Dark Comedy as Climate Solution
Can comedy defeat climate inertia?
Read more...The Debt Ceiling End-Game
So what can the Administration do, instead of blink, in the debt ceiling staredown?
Read more...Coalition Calls on IPCC to Reject Meat Industry Meddling in UN Climate Process
“We encourage the IPCC to… ensure that Big Agriculture and the global meat industry have no influence over future reports.”
Read more...US Geopolitics: Believing Impossible Things
On the global stage, US can only barely keep up the pretense that it is not losing its mind.
Read more...Could a Far-Right vs Centre-Left Showdown Be the Future of British Politics?
Amid global pressures, a centrist Labour government could face a far-right opposition, with no true reformists in sight
Read more...Senators Ramp Up 14th Amendment Pressure on Biden to Counter GOP Debt Ceiling Brinksmanship
Although the GOP created the debt ceiling, Democrats are culpable for neither challenging its Constitutionality nor using the platinum coin.
Read more...Deaths of Despair Now Significant Among the Young
The US cancer of deaths of despair has progressed from less educated middle aged whites to the young of all stripes.
Read more...Some US National Security Experts Call for Peace in Ukraine
While it is now acceptable to suggest negotiating an end to the Ukraine conflict, that’s still a long way from a needed consensus.
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