“Who Gets to Decide How Much Is ‘Enough’ to Live a Good Life?”
A new climate change fix of sustainable limits bizarrely hypes that collective groups will decide, ignoring power and wealth inequality
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The World is in Water Bankruptcy, UN Scientists Report – Here’s What That Means
Water bankruptcy does not just happen gradually, then suddenly, but also with the prospect of violence.
Read more...Greenland and Irrational Responses to the Crisis of Capital Accumulation
The case that the tech bros desire for freedom cities and need for AI energy is driving the Greenland obsession.
Read more...What Can We Do for the 250 Million and Counting Displaced by the Environmental Crisis?
A call for a new comprehensive legal framework for climate refugees to safeguard vulnerable populations and protect those who may be at risk in the future.
Read more...Book Review: A Portrait of the Arctic World in Flux
Neil Shea’s “Frostlines” captures the terror and beauty of the Arctic, a region often dismissed as “big, cold, white, and far away.”
Read more...Climate Engineering Would Alter the Oceans, Reshaping Marine Life – Our New Study Examines Each Method’s Risks
Sadly, climate engineering, aka geo-engineering, is coming. Is it possible to properly assess risks and choose least-hazardous approaches?
Read more...Here Comes the Sun: A Way Forward if We Take It?
Bill McKibben published The End of Nature in 1989 when he was in his twenties. His book is generally recognized as the first to address what was then called global warming and now more properly labeled AGW, anthropogenic global warming. I read the book when it was released and it made perfect sense to me […]
Read more...The Next Frontier of Climate Accountability: Making Big Food Pay Its Ecological Bill
Food industry induced environmental degradation is more serious than most realize. We could reverse this trajectory….but will we?
Read more...American Hegemony by AI: The Role of Israel
The India-Middle East-Europe Corridor is back from the dead, but what of all the issues with an imperial strategy that relies on data centers and desalination in a hotbox ready to blow.
Read more...Near-Term Climate News and Other Tall Tales
A new climate sighting plus AI fakery.
Read more...These 15 Coal Plants Would Have Retired. Then Came AI and Trump.
Utilities started reversing coal power’s “irreversible” decline. Will it last?
Read more...Coffee Break: Climate, Eugenics, and a Note on mRNA Vaccines
Part the First: Climate, “What, Me Worry?” Once again Alfred E. Neuman comes to mind as “policy-based science” remains the order of the day in the Current Administration as Trump Administration Plans to Break Up Premier Weather and Climate Research Center. The Trump administration said it will be dismantling the National Center for Atmospheric Research […]
Read more...In an Ohio Suburb, Sprawl Is Being Transformed Into Walkable Neighborhoods
Yale Climate Connections argues that rethinking American suburbs could help people drive less, lowering emissions.
Read more...The Housing Crisis Is Forcing Americans to Choose Between Affordability and Safety
The magic of the market: a system where your income determines your exposure to climate disasters.
Read more...The Point of No Return for the Warm Water Atlantic Current Is Coming Up Fast
Just the way objects in your rear view mirror are closer than you think, so too are tipping points like the slowdown of the Gulf Stream.
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