Footage Of The World’s Largest Oil Spills

  Oil spills have devastating consequences, both economically and environmentally, and videos of those disasters in action highlight both how much fuel is lost during spills and how much they impact the local environment. Kuwaiti oil fields caused by Iraqi military forces setting fire to 605 to 732 oil wells, storage tanks and facilities, between […]

Kunstler: Twenty-Three Geniuses

If there is a Pulitzer Booby Prize for stupidity, waste no time in awarding it to The New York Times’ Monday feature, The Unrealized Horrors of Population Explosion. The former “newspaper of record” wants us to assume now that the sky’s the limit for human activity on the planet earth. Problemo cancelled. The article and […]

The Infamous 1968 ‘Population Bomb’ Doomsayer Still Stands by His Claim

“Population growth will kill you stone cold dead.” That was the alarming message delivered by Paul R. Ehrlich, who warned in his 1968 book The Population Bomb that the explosive population growth was outpacing our planet’s ability to support mankind. Booming population growth, in his eyes, would lead to 65 million people dying in the […]

How Fukushima Produce Is Making Its Way Into International Stores

It is being reported that tainted food from Fukushima, Ibaraki, Gumma, and Chiba is making its way into local supermarkets in Taiwan due to the irresponsibility of mislabeling. What’s more, these food products were banned in Taiwan since March of 2011. The first question is: Why are food products from the concerned Japanese prefectures surrounding Fukushima […]

Coal mining must continue, no matter what the human costs

  This post was inspired by a recent article about coal mining in India by David Rose in the Guardian about coal mining. In India, people are dying in the streets because of excessive heat caused by global warming, but Rose reports that “…across a broad range of Delhi politicians and policymakers there is near […]

“Bumblebee Highway” To Save Bees From Colony Collapse Disorder

The Oslo Garden Society’s solution has been to build a corridor that will consist of feeding areas every 250 meters (820 feet). The route runs from east to west through the city and involves the placement of nectar-rich flowers on rooftops and balconies. As the world’s bee population continues to decline, the community of Oslo, […]

Stabilization of Human Population

The world population is growing because the birth rate exceeds the death rate, so to stabilize the world population either the birth rate needs to drop, or the death rate needs to increase. The most cited reference for population studies is the projections of future population (PDF) made by the Population Division of the United […]

40 Percent Honeybee Die Off In One Year

Dropping bee population spells famine for humanity “Commercial beehives pollinate over a third of America’s crops and that web of nourishment encompasses everything from fruits like peaches, apples, cherries, strawberries and more, to nuts like California almonds, 90 percent of which are helped along by the honeybees. Without this pollination, you could kiss those crops […]

Unprecedented ‘Mass Die Offs’ As Pacific Ocean “Turning Into a Desert” Off California Coast

“Ocean’s dying, plankton’s dying… it’s people. Soylent Green is made out of people. They’re making our food out of people. Next thing they’ll be breeding us like cattle for food. You’ve gotta tell them. You’ve gotta tell them!” It was the dying cry of Charlton Heston in the creepy 1973 film Soylent Green… and it […]

Santa Barbara Oil Spill Worsens Dramatically

What was originally thought to be around 21,000 barrels is now over 105,000 barrels of oil spilled on to the pristine beaches of Santa Barbara County. On Wednesday, Gov. Jerry Brown declared a state of emergency for Santa Barbara County to free up resources to respond to the spill, which as the following horrible images […]

Fukushima reactor pressure venting system failure

The venting system designed to release pressure inside the containment vessel of the No. 2 reactor at the Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant likely failed during the 2011 disaster, the operator of the facility said May 20. The discovery was made by a robot deployed last October by Tokyo Electric Power Co. to a […]

mankind’s destruction of the planet from forests turned to wasteland to garbage filled seas and slaughtered species

Global warming isn’t the only thing to worry about. Overpopulation, pollution, poaching and mining are just a few of mankind’s other harms that are leaving the Earth scorched and ruined. However, the devastating effects of the digital age, demanding food production and melting glaciers are something most people don’t see every day. In order to […]

Farmers Eat Rats, Trade Tails for Rice as El Nino Drought Begins

Farmer Juanito Masangkay heads out to the fields at night with a flashlight and a bow and arrow to get food for his wife and seven children. By hunting rats. Masangkay and other Philippine farmers are some of the first to suffer the effects of this year’s El Nino, a weather event that alters climate […]

The Greatest Water Crisis In The History Of The United States

What are we going to do once all the water is gone?  Thanks to the worst drought in more than 1,000 years, the western third of the country is facing the greatest water crisis that the United States has ever seen.  Lake Mead is now the lowest that it has ever been since the Hoover […]

The Great Grief: How To Cope With Losing Our World

Climate scientists overwhelmingly say that we will face unprecedented warming in the coming decades. Those same scientists, just like you or I, struggle with the emotions that are evoked by these facts and dire projections. My children—who are now 12 and 16—may live in a world warmer than at any time in the previous 3 […]

Drilling Begins 3 Miles From BP Oil Spill

Just 3 miles from the catastrophic BP spill in the Gulf of Mexico, a Louisiana company is seeking to unlock the same oil and natural gas that turned into a deadly disaster. Drilling has begun in the closest work yet to the Macondo well, which blew wild on April 20, 2010, killing 11 people and […]

Peak Soil

Roman historian Marcus Cato was a politician, writer, and soldier. He wrote seven volumes on the history of the republic, led Roman armies, and lent his name to his great-grandson, the philosopher Cato the Younger. But, amid all this, Marcus Cato also found time to look at the ground beneath his feet. One of his […]

Population; the elephant in the green room

A monstrous and ever expanding elephant sits in the green crusaders’ room. Amidst all the liberal internationalist angst about greenhouse gases and pollution generally, the greatest and most obvious cause of both is ignored by mainstream politicians: the already great and rapidly rising population of the world. The world population is estimated to be over […]

Another Crude Train Derails in North Dakota

A BNSF crude oil train derailment in North Dakota early Wednesday involving 10 tanker cars remained under investigation Thursday. The incident near Heimdal, ND, in Wells County, about 100 miles northeast of Bismarck, occurred around 7:30 a.m. CDT. The fire and smoke led local authorities to evacuate residents in the area. No one was injured, […]

A Degrowth Response to an Ecomodernist Manifesto

Critique Summary Authors and Endorsers: Jeremy Caradonna, Iris Borowy, Tom Green, Peter A. Victor, Maurie Cohen, Andrew Gow, Anna Ignatyeva, Matthias Schmelzer, Philip Vergragt, Josefin Wangel, Jessica Dempsey, Robert Orzanna, Sylvia Lorek, Julian Axmann, Rob Duncan, Richard B. Norgaard, Halina S. Brown, Richard Heinberg Read the full document A Degrowth Response to an Ecomodernist Manifesto Office […]

California Crops raised with oil field water

Here in California’s thirsty farm belt, where pumpjacks nod amid neat rows of crops, it’s a proposition that seems to make sense: using treated oil field wastewater to irrigate crops. Oil giant Chevron recycles 21 million gallons of that water each day and sells it to farmers who use it on about 45,000 acres of […]

‘An Ecomodernist Manifesto’: Truth and confusion in the same breath

I really do want to applaud the Breakthrough Institute’s recently released paper called “An Ecomodernist Manifesto.” It speaks with candor about the possible catastrophic consequences of unchecked climate change. It recognizes the large footprint of humankind in the biosphere. It wants to address both, and it wants to do so in a way that offers a positive vision for […]

Radioactive leak detected at Japan’s Fukushima

A small quantity of radioactive water has leaked from a storage tank at Japan’s tsunami-crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant, Tokyo daily Asahi Shimbun reported Saturday. A worker at the facility, located in northeastern Japan, found a wet patch measuring 20 sq. centimeters (3 sq. inches) under a storage tank for radiation-contaminated water on Friday […]

What does a Dutch cereal farm have to teach us about overpopulation?

  Concerns about overpopulation have been a mainstay in poverty eradication discussions for decades. But according to the Brookings Institution, the problem isn’t only overhyped, it’s also missing the bigger issue. “Overpopulation is an appealing emotional concept for many. With refugees, poverty, malnutrition, and hunger broadcast onto televisions around the world every day, emotional pictures […]

Let’s prepare for a world of change

WITH global population set to pass 8 billion in just a few years there are some tough choices to be made, says May East I think HG Wells had it right when he said that we are in a race between education and catastrophe. For the environmental educator David Orr this race will be won […]

The Doomsayers Were Wrong about the BP Oil Spill

Mother Nature heals herself. Five years ago this week, a blowout of BP’s Deepwater Horizon oil rig 40 miles from the Gulf Coast tragically claimed eleven lives and spilled 3 million barrels of oil from the damaged wellhead into the Gulf. It’s hard to forget the video images of thick oil gushing, day after day, […]

Why We Need a Great Transition

We confront an existential risk without historic precedent: human environmental pressures have reached such a pace and intensity that they may cross tipping points, irreversibly altering the state of the Earth system. As the human enterprise becomes more encompassing and interdependent, the prospect of achieving human well-being within the dominant development paradigm grows dim. However, […]

The Biggest Problem Remains Over-Population

Today, Earth Day, behooves all of us to give serious consideration on alleviating the horrific problems that plague our world, and threaten to make it uninhabitable in a very short term. At the root of all the problems, including fouled water, polluted air and soil, melting glaciers, severe crowding – not to mention mass panic migrations […]

Sardine population isn’t crashing

Environmental groups such as Oceana complain that the sardine population is collapsing just as it did in the mid-1940s. They blame “overfishing” as the reason and maintain that the fishery should be shut down completely (“Starving sea lions spotlight overfishing,” Viewpoints, April 14). In truth, Pacific sardines are perhaps the best-managed fishery in the world. […]

Loss of fertile soils a food security risk

Massive amounts of fertile agricultural land are lost every year. Yet we depend on such topsoil as the basis for feeding the world. So, what needs to be done to assure healthy soils and thus food security? Worldwide deterioration of soil quality is a disaster in the making, warn experts like Jes Weigelt of the […]

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