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Crazy Town 99. Eating the Future: The NY Times Goes Full Ecomodernist on Food and Farming

Show Notes How will we feed people living in the megacities of the 21st century, especially while confronting climate chaos and the depletion of fossil fuels and fossil water? According to the mainstream media: ecomodernism! Massive deploym

What to know about Lesotho, the country Trump said 'nobody has ever heard of'

JOHANNESBURG — In his Tuesday night address to Congress, President Trump defended his administration's humanitarian aid cuts to countries around the globe, including one nation he joked "nobody has ever heard of." It is the southern African

In the Shadow of Mount Nyiro

Navigating northwards from the town of Isiolo within The Rift Valley of Central Kenya, some of our East African partners and myself quickly found ourselves off the tarmac and using dirt roads traversing from village to village, which are fe

The Wheels Are Falling off Alberta’s Gas-Powered AI Data Centre Proposal

Northern Alberta’s Wonder Valley development seems somewhat less wonderful lately. Celebrity investor Kevin “Mr. Wonderful” O’Leary recently hyped the $70 billion AI data center proposal to be powered by “200 trillion cubic feet of sweet na

Dr. Willie Soon: Sea levels are the lowest they’ve been in 500 million years

In a short fun video, Dr. Willie Soon demonstrates how the sea level today is the lowest it has ever been. To do this he uses descriptions of the landscape of historical events and then looks at the same landscape today. Let’s not lose tou

The Muskovites Are at the Gates: Is the Republic Doomed?

The tectonic truth is that Donald Trump and Elon Musk could stop their chainsaw rampage through the federal government, foreign alliances, and the US Constitution immediately, and it would take years to undo the cumulative damage they’ve al

Hall of Mirrors

The shock being experienced in Washington D.C. since January 20 is exposing gaping holes in the fantasies we told ourselves were rock-solid truths—lasting for whole (gasp) generations!. It is also important to admit that this is democracy w

Solar power is at least 10 times more expensive than natural gas

A peer-reviewed study published in 2022 found that wind and solar power are more expensive than coal, natural gas and nuclear power. The study shows that even in favourable locations like Texas, solar power is 10 times and wind power 7 time

Turkish attacks on Tishreen water dam are an ecological threat to the whole region

Ed note: To give the following post some context, Make Rojava Green Again is an organisation that describes itself as the following: We, the Internationalist Commune of Rojava, want to contribute to the ecological revolution in Northern Sy

Some academic actuaries say we are not overestimating climate and biodiversity risks

Ed Note: This piece previously appeared on interest.co.nz. It is published here with the permission of the author. Some actuaries at the University of Exeter in the UK have partnered with a group of earth scientists to examine what they ter

Analysis: UK would need forest ‘twice size of London’ to offset new airport expansion

A forest twice the size of Greater London would need to be planted in the UK to cancel out the extra emissions from the expansion of Heathrow, Gatwick and Luton airports, Carbon Brief analysis reveals. New runways at these airports surround

(Some of) The Central Questions of Our Time

(Recorded February 25th, 2025) Description The period of relative peace and stability we’ve known – enabled by the energy surplus of the Carbon Pulse and the ecological stability of the Holocene – is slipping away. AI is turbocharging the

Just Plant Trees? It’s Not So Simple

With the many converging crises, we are looking for a quick fix to our problems. Too much carbon dioxide in the air? Plant more trees. I hear that constantly. Yes, of course we need the trees. But planting trees is no longer the solution to the enormous level of emissions in our air.

US: Lithium Mine Permit Violates Indigenous Peoples’ Rights

(Washington D.C., February 6, 2025) – The United States government’s decision to permit Lithium Americas to mine at Thacker Pass in Nevada violated Indigenous people’s rights, Human Rights Watch and the ACLU said in a report released today. The 18,000-acre mining project is under construction and will