A Normal Election Campaign In Abnormal Times Is Dangerous
Scoop,
A major disappointment with our current general election campaign is its numbing normalcy.
Nuclear Fusion: Eternal Energy Is Eternal Damnation - Global Research
Globalresearch,
All Global Research articles can be read in 51 languages by activating the Translate Website button below the author’s name.
Nuclear Fusion: Eternal Energy = Eternal Damnation
CounterPunch,
The preamplifiers of the National Ignition Facility. Photograph Source: Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory – CC BY-SA 3.0…
Nuclear Fusion: Eternal Energy = Eternal Damnation
Countercurrents.org,
by Don Fitz and Stan Cox Like a third rate zombie movie on Netflix, delusions of nuclear fusion repeatedly rise from the dead.
The Old Future Is Gone, and Technology Won’t Bring It Back
CounterPunch,
Image by Priti Gulati Cox. As we begin the second year of “In Real Time,” the future doesn’t look very promising.
Technology Will Not Restore Our Pre-Climate Crisis Future
Common Dreams,
As we begin the second year of “In Real Time,” the future doesn’t look very promising.
The Old Future Is Gone, and Technol...
Countercurrents.org,
As we begin the second year of “In Real Time,” the future doesn’t look very promising.
Global Polycrisis as a Pathway for Economic Transition
Countercurrents.org,
This article is part of an ongoing collaboration between the United Nations Development Programme (Bureau for Program
Stable Electricity: A Long Slow Goodbye
Medium US,
Electricity shortages are looming for the UK and Europe, and then later for the rest of the overdeveloped world as well.
Me, the Fossil Fuel Shill
Medium US,
I often get comments at the end of my articles that I’m a shill for fossil fuels.
Today’s Contemplation: Collapse Cometh LXXII
Medium US,
Oct 19 8 min read While I work on a longer (perhaps several part) contemplation regarding the myth of infinite growth on a…
Embrace more economic growth at our peril
MSN,
Opinion: Continuous economic growth is clearly the dominant policy priority of every government on the planet, every business…
Embrace more economic growth at our peril
Newsroom,
Comment Focusing on GDP presents an enticing distraction from the associated ecological harm.
Today’s Contemplation: Collapse Cometh LVI
Medium US,
min read This contemplation is my concluding post regarding several psychological mechanisms at play in our thinking about…
We Have A Scalability Issue
Medium US,
May 24 5 min read At the dawn of the industrial revolution less than 1 billion humans inhabited this earth.
Today’s Contemplation: Collapse Cometh L
Medium US,
May 19 8 min read Keeping in mind that we humans are storytelling primates with extraordinary cognitive abilities, I’ve been…
Today’s Contemplation: Collapse Cometh XLIX
Medium US,
May 5 6 min read Today’s Contemplation has been prompted by a request to engage someone in ‘an academic lesson’ regarding the…
A Practical Radical Politics
Medium US,
https://www.counterpunch.org/2022/02/04/a-practical-radical-politics/ by Robert Jensen / February 4, 2022 We need to be…
A Practical Radical Politics
Countercurrents.org,
We need to be practical when it comes to politics, to work for policies that we can enact today, inadequate though they may be…
Are Electric Cars the Solution? (in Analysis)
The Tyee,
Or do visions of ‘clean’ robots supplying mobile freedom steer us down the wrong road? Fifty years ago the French political…
Today’s Contemplation: Collapse Cometh XXXVII
Medium US,
Got involved in a discussion after an Facebook Friend (Alice Friedemann, whose work can be seen here) posted a study on the…
Jack Santa Barbara: To reduce consumption, we'll need humility
MSN,
© Getty Waste - of energy, food, resources - is a real problem in modern civilisation.
Jack Santa Barbara: To reduce consumption, we'll need humility
Newsroom,
Environment Jack Santa Barbara asks what we need to do differently to seriously engage with our overshoot problem and prevent…
Returning to a 1970s Economy Could Save our Future (in Analysis)
The Tyee,
We’d contract energy use by half. Shrinking consumption is the solution we can actually live with.
Why COP26 is designed to fail
Newsroom,
COP26 Jack Santa Barbara argues COP26 is tackling the wrong problem. He explains why.
Jack Santa Barbara: Renewables a placebo for climate change
Newsroom,
COP26 Our collective belief that renewable energy is the cure for fossil fuels may well turn out to be more of a placebo than a…
What would it take?
Medium US,
I’ve spent the past couple of weeks exploring the gap — the missing narrative — between conventional economics and the real…
Can we stop calling it biodiversity? There’s no word for what we’re losing (commentary)
South Africa Today,
“Biodiversity” is not an effective term to use in shaping the global conservation agenda, yet it is at the center of the…
The fossil fuel discussion we're not having
Newsroom,
Environment Let’s stop pretending that a fast enough transition away from fossil fuels is actually underway and that it will…
We’re Losing Something – But Are We Right To Call It ‘Biodiversity’?
The Wire,
Photo: SGR/Unsplash ‘Biodiversity’ is not an effective term to use in shaping the global conservation agenda, yet it is at the…
Can we stop calling it biodiversity? There’s no word for what we’re losing (commentary)
Mongabay,
“Biodiversity” is not an effective term to use in shaping the global conservation agenda, yet it is at the center of the…