Political v.s Physical Tipping Points
Back in the 2000’s I belonged to the Netroots movement. Our mantra was “more, better democrats.” We ran primaries, fundraised and put pressure on politicians, on top of all the normal blogging stuff,...
View ArticleClimate Change and Environmental Collapse (State of the World 2023 #2)
(This is second in the series promised during the 2022 fundraiser. For #1 (imperial collapse) read here.) I’m going to keep this one brief. This year has seen the constant shattering of temperature...
View ArticlePrinciples Of The Green Age After The Collapse: #1
Do as thou will, so long as you increase biodiversity and biomass, reduce pollution and heat, and replace any resources used. Want to live in the howling wilderness? OK. But only if you can increase...
View ArticleWhat Happens When Insurance Goes Away
Thomas Neuburger, one of my favorite bloggers, has an excellent post on the fact that swathes of types of insurance are going to go extinct because of climate change. Property, fire, home (except from...
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India Is Cooked
On May 29 New Delhi was 52.9 degrees Celsius (127.2 F), only 1.5 degrees less than the world record from Death Valley. Records are being set all over the world: And this is in May, which is, in a way,...
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Why Do I Talk About Real Food Shortages In The Future?
Well, this is one reason: Martin Frick told the BBC that some of the most deprived areas had now reached a tipping point of having “zero” harvests left, as extreme weather was pushing already degraded...
View ArticleThe Short-Sightedness Of Destroying BioDiversity
I ran across an article on a century old collection of grain seeds. Seems that saving them may turn out to be important: A UK-Chinese collaboration has sequenced the DNA of all the 827 kinds of wheat,...
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The Most Important Issues Facing Humanity
There’s been a lot of attention, much of it apocalyptic, paid to Trump’s election, but Trump is just a symptom of one of our three main issues. In order of importance, they are: Climate Change and...
View ArticleThe Pacific Pallisades Fire
An area larger Manhattan has burned down. In the middle of fucking winter. I’ve been watching the reaction, and there’s a lot of screeching about DEI and bad fire management and so on and it’s true...
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Actuaries Weigh In On Climate Change Effects
Actuaries are probably the world’s foremost experts on risk. The Institute & Faculty of Actuaries has weighed in on the likely effects of climate change (pdf): They expect this between 2050 and...
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