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On the IPCC’s latest climate report: What does it tell us?
On the IPCC’s latest climate report: What does it tell us? – Brian Tokar The UN-sponsored Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) recently released its latest comprehensive report on the state of the earth’s climate. The much-anticipated report dominated the headlines for a few days in early August, then quickly disappeared amidst…
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121 Degrees in Canada: Don’t Crank up the AC!
On June 22, 2021, the town of Lytton, British Columbia, hit 121° F (49.6° C), obliterating the old Canadian high temperature record of 113°. It was a fun fact with perhaps a shudder of alarm attached, but heat waves happen. The natural reaction is to turn up the air conditioning (except that people in those…
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Climate: The Jerry Can Solution
Every year we add about 55 billion tons (Gt) of carbon-dioxide and other greenhouse gases to the atmosphere, where they stoke heat waves, droughts, wildfires, floods, hurricanes, and other less visible consequences. The cumulative level rises like a flooding river that has reached our chin. The scientists at the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)…
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Nate Hagens, on Earth and Humanity
Watch the video presentation “Earth and Humanity: Myth and Reality,” (2:52:15) by Nate Hagens, linked below. Hagens presents an analysis and grand synthesis of the multi-entwined crises of unsustainable human society living in the rapidly degrading world climate of an increasingly resource-depleted and increasingly inhospitable Planet Earth. I guarantee that you will find many of…
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Is AltE Truly the Best Solution to Climate Catastrophe?
Child Labor in the Democratic Republic of Congo “Accumulate, accumulate! That is Moses and the prophets!… Accumulation for the sake of accumulation, production for the sake of production: this was the historical mission of the bourgeoisie in the period of its domination …” Karl Marx, Capital, Vol…
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Solidarity with Resistance to Extraction
Resisting Line 3, Enbridge Pipeline People the world over are opposing fossil fuel extraction in an incalculable number of ways. It is now clear that burning fossil fuels threatens millions of Life forms and could be laying the foundation for the extermination of Humanity. But what about “alternative” energy? As progressives stand shoulder-to-shoulder with those…
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The Net Zero Mirage
“Net Zero by 2050” is the rallying cry of scientists and policymakers throughout the world. However, that epithet echoes past decades of climate change/global warming mitigation plans, one after another, all failures. The world’s continuing failure to come to grips with the dilemma led three notable climate scientists, deeply involved at the highest levels, to…
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The Coming Time of Less Energy
Energy is the underappreciated driver of life. Humanity is at a turning point from energy present and energy past to energy future. Energy Present: The Age of Wood Once upon a time wood was the universal fuel and material: wood for fire; wood for houses, boats, wagons and plows; charcoal for working metals.…
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Seaspiracy’s Nightmarish Odyssey
“Seaspiracy” is a powerful new documentary about the hazardous, unruly world of industrial fishing and stomach-churning abuse, overuse, disregard for life, as shown on Netflix, released by Disrupt Studios March 24, 2021. The opening scene of the film sets the tone with a long-shot of an isolated fishing trawler at sea as the voice-over…
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Poisoning the Planet’s Web of Life
The Web of Life is under attack but almost nobody is aware because it’s happening mostly below surface. Scientists have identified a rampant worldwide Bugpocalypse that’s methodically killing the planet’s most significant and most crucial life support system, and it’s intentional! The victim is soil, which is the life source for 95% of the foods…
