from Limits to Growth: The 30-Year Update, Donella Meadows et al. 2004 “Scientists do know that there have been temperature upheavals on earth in the past … “But the most important message … is that current atmospheric concentrations of carbon dioxide and methane are far higher than they have been for 160,000 years. … There …
Category: environment
Aug 28 2025
from The Sheep Look Up, John Brunner (1972)
“‘You and your ancestors treated the world like a fucking great toilet bowl.’” p112 “‘The rich countries have ruined what they own, so they’re out to steal from the people who have a little left. They want the copper, the zinc, the tin, the oil. And of course there’s the timber, which is getting scarce.’” …
Aug 24 2025
from ” Required awareness to handle climate change is impossible” by Godofredo Aravena
“Based on my experience, average human has, let´s say, a six-dimensional perception of the world. Own body, family, house, job, grocery store (stores in general) and neighborhood. Anything beyond this limits, it is outside of a truly understanding (something happens out there, but nobody dares to find out what and how). Nation is a distant …
Aug 22 2025
“… and when they notice the screams …”
“And we keep making these choices, every day, choosing dams over salmon, oil over whales, cars over polar bears, death over life. And when I say we keep making these choices, I do not mean you and me — we have essentially nothing to do with it — I mean the politicians and CEOs who …
Aug 18 2025
Dear Americans-who-blame-us-for-the-smoke
Dear Americans-who-blame-us-for-the-smoke: “If Canada can’t get these wildfires under control, they need to face real consequences … We won’t sit back while our air becomes a health hazard.” So says Rep. Calvin Callahan from Wisconsin and others from Iowa, Minnesota, New York, and North Dakota who filed a formal complaint. Against Canada. Excuse me? EXCUSE …
Jul 29 2025
These fires brought to you by …
Watching the weather network, with the ads: the fires in Turkey brought to you by Mitsubishi’s new crossover SUV, the Outlander. Literally brought to you by. It’s exactly like an ad for guns showing right after news of a school shooting. See the problem? How can they, the people behind the weather network, can be …
Jul 27 2025
This Changes Everything changed nothing.
This Changes Everything is the most important book ever written. Because it changed nothing. You need to read the book in order to understand my point. And therein lies the problem: people don’t read anymore. Almost half (48.5%) of Americans haven’t read a single book in the past year. And, surprising to me, the U.S. …
Jul 09 2025
Dear Canada: Please stop your fires; the smoke is ruining our summer.
https://tiffany.house.gov/sites/evo-subsites/tiffany.house.gov/files/evo-media-document/canadian_wildfire_smoke_letter.pdf Are you fucking kidding me? “With all the technology that we have at our disposal, both in preventing and fighting wildfires, this worrisome trend can be reversed if proper action is taken.” Right. Bet you can reverse global warming too. Go ahead. Try it. Please. “Our constituents have been limited in their ability to …
Jul 07 2025
from The Lost Cause, Cory Doctorow – HIGHLY RECOMMENDED
A compassionate and frightening and optimistic near future that’s right here and almost right now. There are so many whole paragraphs I wanted to copy … p62, p238, p269 “Things are gonna get so much worse in the years to come. More fires. More floods. More trauma, and that means more of this shit, people …
Jun 26 2025
“Banking on Climate Chaos”
“Last year was the hottest year on record, but that did not stop global banks from walking back climate pledges and significantly increasing fossil fuel financing. Over 65 banks across the world, including CIBC, TD Bank, and Royal Bank of Canada in the top 15, have committed $10.8 trillion to fossil fuel financing since 2016 …
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