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There’s A Reason I Say “Climate Change and Environmental Collapse”
A lot of people lump all environmental issues under “climate change.” It’s the big bad boogeyman, the easiest to observe, and the first that’s likely to cause catastrophe. This also leads some to think...
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First Time Ever: Himalayas Breached By Monsoons
~by Sean Paul Kelley The Kunlunshan is the Chinese equivalent of the Front Range of the Rockies in Colorado, except they are much higher. From time immemorial, even before humanity began writing, the...
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Yes, Human Population Needs To Be Lower, Not All Ways Of Doing That Aren’t Good
You wouldn’t believe some of the stupidity that I don’t let thru into comments. (Well, perhaps you would.) A recent bit suggested that I shouldn’t object to Gaza genocide because after all, I think...
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Environmental Collapse, Not Just Climate Change
When I talk about the environment I usually say “Climate change & Environmental Degradation.” It’s important to understand that while these two reinforce each other, they aren’t the same thing. A...
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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...
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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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 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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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...
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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,...
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...
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 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 ArticlePolitical 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,...
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Declining Population Thru Lower Birth Rates Is GOOD, Mmmmkay?
Alright, let’s cover this again, with a bit more explication, since the idiots are really doubling down on “oh no, decreasing population.” Population collapse is the biggest threat to civilization. •...
View ArticleThe Simplest Thing You Need To Understand About Climate Change
The amount of warming is based primarily on how much CO2 there is in the atmosphere. This is what is known as a STOCK. Think of it like the water in a sink. The amount of climate change gases we are...
View ArticleWe 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...
View ArticleRefreshing 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....
View ArticlePersonal 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…...
View ArticleCivilization 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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