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Hot Enough To Die

So, the temperatures in the Pacific Northwest probably cooked around a billion sea animals. Dead. A billion. The town of Lytton, which reached Canada’s hottest ever temperature, later burned down: 90%...

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How The Metaphysics Of Capitalism Destroyed The World

Back in 1968 the book “Limits to Growth” stormed the world. Computer models predicted that humans would run out of almost every resource, overshoot carying capacity, then crash. It was well known and...

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Humanity’s Completely Broken Feedback Systems

If you want to understand how we got where we are, it’s simple: our strongest feedback systems to our decision making people are telling them “everything’s great, stay on course!” For over 40 years now...

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Methane And The Point Where Humans Are No Longer In Control

I’ve been talking about methane release from the permafrost (and perhaps arctic) for a long time now. Back in 2013 I wrote: Various processes are past the point of no return; we are going to see huge...

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That Poisoned Land

Mary Stewart was a best-selling author for much of the 20th century. I first stumbled across her as a child, reading the “The Hollow Hills” and the “Crystal Cave,” two of her books about Merlin, but...

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The Petrochemical Age In Context

If you want to do super big picture macrohistory, humans have really had three eras: 1) Hunting/gathering 2) Agriculture 3) Industrial. To over-summarize, hunter-gatherers, with some exceptions in...

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Civilization Ending Long Covid Levels?

So, via everyone’s favorite omnicidal Dalek, a study which finds that 51% to 80% of people who get Covid(pdf) get long Covid. Often it’s asymptomatic, but asymptomatic cases still do damage to the...

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Personal Resilience, Gardens, Water And Heat

Generally about the second thing people do when they start getting worried about supply chains and the effects of climate change and economic issues, is start a garden, if they can. This is good, but…...

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Refreshing Honesty About Bank Loans & Environmental Destruction

I actually appreciate this, from the HSBC AM Global Head of Responsible Investing, Stuart Kirk: “At a big bank like ours, what do people think the average loan length is?” he asked. “It is six years....

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We Are Going To Go Thru Hell, So What Now?

I was born in 1968, the year Wallerstein calls one of “world revolution”. It was a revolution that both failed and succeeded: women and minorities got more rights, often a lot more, but the end result...

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