Fossil Fuel based growth has ended: This is the best place to learn about the future
Alan Bates: We are in a crisis in the evolution of human society. It’s unique to both human and geologic history. It has never happened before and it can’t possibly happen again. Copied from: My New 12 Trillion-dollar Annual Budget “We’ll not have to tighten our belts anywhere.“ Full fossil fuel price reform would reduce …
The Renewable Energy Transition Is Failing This reinforces my view that we should switch spending from producing renewables to preparing for global warming.
According to George Monbiot, Jeremy Lent is “One of the greatest thinkers of our age. His book “The Web of Meaning: Integrating Science and Traditional Wisdom to Find Our Place in the Universe” is awe-inspiring. His span of knowledge is huge. As our civilization careers towards a precipice of climate breakdown, ecological destruction and gaping …
The latest 3,600-page report from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, the United Nations’ climate research unit, examines the consequences of rising average temperatures for people around the world. However: Myths and misconceptions are undermining efforts to deal with migration There’s a subtext to many public discussions around climate change and migration, that a warmer …
New research shows how warmer temperatures could push atmospheric pathogens into new areas. https://grist.org/climate/theres-an-invisible-ecosystem-in-the-air-and-climate-change-is-disrupting-it/?
Regenerative conversations exploring overshoot grief, grounding, and gratitude. These are worth spending time on. Mostly around an hour each. A post-doom mindset is a hard-earned and often fluctuating state of being. Classic stages of grief mark a well-worn path. However, mere acceptance of what is unavoidable need not be the endpoint. Michael Dowd (with occasional co-hosts) …
https://www.anthropocenemagazine.org/2022/01/in-face-of-climate-change-rethink-regular-work-hours/?
From the Washington Post: Climate change has destabilized the Earth’s poles, putting the rest of the planet in peril New research shows how rising temperatures have irreversibly altered both the Arctic and Antarctic. Ripple effects will be felt around the globe. Rain on glaciers. Ice-free seas. New research shows a transformed Arctic. The National Oceanic …
Gail Tverberg’s latest (very long) piece concludes that: We also have the opportunity to decide how we want to live the rest of our lives. We have been led for many years down the path of believing that economic growth will last forever; all we need to do is have faith in the government and …
Tim Watkin’s latest piece concludes that: Since we can expect several more energy suppliers to collapse during the winter months, as has happened in the rail industry, we can expect these to be nationalised too. But even this “solution” depends upon the price of energy coming down; and there is no reason to believe that …
Accepting grim realities while maintaining a zest for improving life on earth now — GREEN DREAMER
The conclusions of the COP26 summit, however, offer some hope. More than 100 nations have committed to reduce emissions of methane, which is 80 times more warming than carbon dioxide, by 30% by the end of this decade. About 140 states pledged to achieve carbon neutrality by 2050. The question is, whether the action is …
Tim Watkins concludes his latest piece: “The problem with the Green New Deal is that it promises to change everything while keeping everything the same. It promises to switch out the energetic basis of modern society as if one were changing the battery in a car. You still buy a new iPhone every two years, …
https://thesenecaeffect.blogspot.com/2021/04/peak-water-update.html
Returning to a 1970s Economy Could Save Our Future We’d contract energy use by half. Shrinking consumption is the solution we can actually live with. Second of two. Andrew Nikiforuk Today | TheTyee.caTyee contributing editor Andrew Nikiforuk is an award-winning journalist whose books and articles focus on epidemics, the energy industry, nature and more. [Editor’s note: Read part …