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Humans to Go Extinct in Three, Two—
So, a very conservative study on the rate of species going extinct has come up with the following: One hundred and fourteen times faster than the normal background rate. “If it is allowed to continue,...
View ArticleHeat Too Hot to Survive
Refugee Crisis? You have yet to see a real refugee crisis. Rising global temperatures could push the sun-baked cities of the Persian Gulf across a threshold unknown since the start of civilization: the...
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What the Paris Climate Accord Tells Us About Our Future
There are two ways to look at the Paris accords. The first way is that it is a step in the right direction: Countries have made promises to improve carbon emissions, report back every five years, and...
View ArticleThe End of the Age of Oil
Has the last oil boom ended? Electric cars will be cheaper to own than conventional cars by 2022, according to a new report. The plummeting cost of batteries is key in leading to the tipping point,...
View ArticleWill Capitalism Be Replaced By Something Better?
The short answer is: “Who knows?” The longer answer is “probably not,” simply because we have such a mess coming down the road in terms of climate change, resource exhaustion, imperial collapse, and so...
View ArticleThings That Should Have Been Done Yesterday, #1
Ban of all consumer goods, worldwide, that are made with non-bio-degradable or otherwise non-naturally break-downable materials. Phase in period with increasing taxes, 20 percent per year for five...
View ArticleClimate Change and Heat
In India: India’s pre-monsoon heat has intensified, forcing thousands of people to stay indoors as they struggled to avoid blistering conditions. Much of the country was reeling as temperatures...
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Why the Climate Change Numbers Say “Nuclear”
Lot of people won’t like this post, but some of the smartest people I know have been saying for decades that a solution to climate change means nuclear energy. The numbers cannot, and will not, work...
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Surviving Climate Change
The news is all bad. You may have seen this graphic already, but it’s worth meditating on. Yes, this year has been breaking records. Every single month has been the hottest on record. There is a chance...
View ArticleHeaven on Earth: The Kindness Maxim
In the past, I have noted that kindness is generally the best policy and always the best policy default. If you don’t have an ironclad reason not to be kind, be kind. Let’s run through this. People who...
View ArticleCyclical vs. End-Time Thinking
Eras come and go. Civilizations come and go too. There have been ecological collapses in the past. For example, one took out the Mayans, and it was self-inflicted. The same is true, on a lesser scale,...
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Arctic Permafrost Defrosting and the Age of War and Revolution
For well over a decade, I have written that we are past the point of no return on climate change. My reasoning was that hothouse gasses already in the atmosphere, or which were for sure going to enter...
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Nature Does Not Grade on a Curve
One of the problems with how we are educated and how we work is that almost all of it is “grading on a curve.” What matters is what our teacher thinks of us; what our boss thinks of us. Except when it...
View ArticleSaying is doing
(NOTE: POST BY MANDOS) So. Trump has just announced his pullout from the Paris accords. It doesn’t really matter whether the Paris accords actually did anything material, or did anything material that...
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The World Is Going to Hell Because
You get the behaviour you reward. Politicians in the US, with the Iraq war and the vote to have it, committed the exact same war crime most Nazis were hung for: aggressive war. They, including the most...
View ArticleHurricane Irma and Thinking About Future Climate Change
I haven’t written about the hurricanes this season because much of what I’d say, and will say, has become mainstream. Yes, this is related to climate change, because hurricanes take their energy from...
View ArticlePuerto Rico: Late Imperial Possession
Puerto Rico got hit hard by Hurricane Maria. An understatement. Satellite images taken at night show Puerto Rico in July vs. now; Hurricane #Maria knocked out much of the power and it remains down....
View ArticleOur True Legacy: Plastic
Would you like some plastic with your salt? Sea salt around the world has been contaminated by plastic pollution, adding to experts’ fears that microplastics are becoming ubiquitous in the environment...
View ArticleThe Growing Puerto Rico Disaster
The number of people without power on the Island is increasing, not decreasing, up 6% from yesterday, to 90%. A third of the island doesn’t have running water. Half the people don’t have cell phone...
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Bugpocalypse: Environmental Collapse Continues
There are two major inter-related environmental problems today. The first is climate change, the second is environmental collapse. The ecosystem is a very complicated web, from single celled organisms...
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