U.S. Droughts Will Be the Worst in 1,000 Years

Several independent studies in recent years have predicted that the American Southwest and central Great Plains will experience extensive droughts in the second half of this century, and that advancing climate change will exacerbate those droughts. But a new analysis released today says the drying will be even more extreme than previously predicted—the worst in […]

Brazil faces water disaster; scientists warned it was coming

Brazil’s largest city is facing a water shortage this year unlike it has seen in decades — a potential disaster scientists have warned about as far back as the 1980s. The metropolitan area of Sao Paulo, the world’s 12th-largest metro population at more than 20 million, is served by two main natural water systems — […]

Overshoot

  The many comments appearing all over the Web for the death of William Catton , the author of “Oversoot”, show how deep the impact of this book was on many of us.  “Overshoot” was part of that wave of books and studies of the 1960s and 1970s which tried to come to terms to […]

6000% Increase in Cancer Rates at Fukushima Site

As reports from individuals like Chieko Shiina, a supporter of the Fukushima Collaborateive Clinic talk about exploding rates of thyroid cancer in children, as well as an epidemic of leukemia, heart attacks, and other health problems, the Abe-led government and US continue to sweep the fall out of the Fukushima disaster under the rug. Cancer rates have exploded […]

Everything has its limit

  Peak oil is so last year. Now we can worry about peak everything: peak food, peak soil, peak fertilizer, even peak bees. Let’s start small. We depend on bees to pollinate plants that account for about one-third of the world’s food supply, but since 2006 bee colonies in the United States have been dying […]

“Missing oil” from 2010 BP spill found on gulf seafloor

Up to 10 million gallons (38 million liters) of crude oil from the 2010 Deepwater Horizon oil spill has settled at the bottom of the Gulf of Mexico, where it is threatening wildlife and marine ecosystems, according to a new study. The finding helps solve the mystery of where the “missing” oil from the spill […]

There are too many of us on this planet

Earlier this month, Pope Francis made news when he said that not only was climate change real, but it was mostly man-made. Then, last week, he said that couples do not need to breed “like rabbits” but rather should plan their families responsibly — albeit without the use of modern contraception. Though the pope did […]

Forget peak oil; we’ve reached peak everything

Peak oil is so last year. Now we can worry about peak everything: peak food, peak soil, peak fertilizer, even peak bees. Let’s start small. We depend on bees to pollinate plants that account for about one-third of the world’s food supply, but since 2006 bee colonies in the United States have been dying off […]

World’s renewable resources reach limit

Renewable resources representing 45 per cent of global calorie intake have reached peak production levels Peak oil has become a familiar term over the past decade, but the world will soon have to get used to peak rice, peak wheat and peak maize, according to new research from the Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research. ‘Peak […]

Fuke-Undo

“According to Takasi, bacteria exposed to radionuclides may become resistant to or even capable of chemically transforming and detoxifying radionuclides.” Wadoo, zim bam boddle-oo, Hoodle ah da wa da, Scatty wah ! Oh yeah !… Well, it ain’t necessarily so Well, it ain’t necessarily so Dey tells all you chillun De debble’s a villun, But […]

Population: Four Out of Five Scientists Agree

A new poll of American scientists suggests that a large majority of them (82 percent) regard population growth as a major challenge, almost as many as those who believe that climate change is mostly due to human activity (87 percent). The poll, which was conducted by the Pew Research Center, indicates that a clear majority […]

Millions Of Gallons Of Oil Settled At The Bottom Of The Gulf After BP Oil Spill

Millions of gallons of oil from the Deepwater Horizon oil spill didn’t get cleaned up, and instead settled in the sediment of the Gulf of Mexico’s floor, a new study has found. The study, published in the journal Environmental Science and Technology, found that 6 to 10 million gallons of oil from the spill are […]

Where Do the Transition Environmental Movement and The Social Justice Movement Intersect?

Resource depletion and climate change effects various demographic groups in vastly different ways. Recovery within historically disenfranchised communities from hurricanes and Superstorms Katrina, Irene, Lee and Sandy looked radically different than that of communities which typify the overall Transition Town demographic. Transitioners tend to be predominantly white, educated, post materialist, middleclass, small community people. How does that Transitioner demographic reality impact the reach […]

They Really Do Want To Reduce The Population

Most Americans have absolutely no idea, but a very dark philosophy is spreading like wildfire among the global elite.  This philosophy is an obsessive belief that humanity has become a cancer that is destroying the earth.  There are now large numbers of global leaders that are convinced that the exploding population of the world has become like a virus or a plague, […]

Oil from the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge: Uncompetitive and Insecure

How odd. On 16 January I posted a blog here about the dubious economics of the tar-sands industry and hence of the Keystone XL pipeline. The blog began with an analogy to the economic implausibility and national-security risks of oil* from the vast Coastal Plain of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge (called ANWR by those […]

Report highlights how natural gas “fracking” is causing earthquakes

North-central Texas is experiencing a surge in earthquakes like never before, and a recent study says the cause could be natural gas hydraulic fracturing, a process more popularly known as “fracking.” The liquid waste left over from pumping natural gas out of the ground is apparently greasing little-known fault lines in the region near Dallas-Fort […]

Conspiracy to reduce world’s population

Prince Philip’s principal collaborators in launching the World Wildlife Fund as a funding and worldwide operations arm of the International Union for the Conservation of Nature, were Sir Julian Huxley and Max Nicholson, both ardent advocates of eugenics and racial purification. In fact, Huxley was president of the Eugenics Society when he co-founded the WWF. […]

Economics of the Anthropocene

Post Carbon Fellow Joshua Farley was one of 45 leading scholars, authors and activists who convened at The Great Hall of Cooper Union, New York City, on October 25-26, 2014, for the public presentation: “Techno-Utopianism and the Fate of the Earth.” Speakers discussed the profound impacts—environmental, economic and social—of runaway technological expansionism and cyber immersion; […]

Human Population: Population Growth

World Population Growth, 1950–2050 Source: United Nations Population Division, World Population Prospects, The 2008 Revision. Teachers Guide: Discussion questions Question and Answer: Has the world’s population changed much over time? For the last 50 years, world population multiplied more rapidly than ever before, and more rapidly than it is projected to grow in the future. […]

Are limits to growth real?

In 2002, global warming denialist and anti-environmental gadfly Bjørn Lomborg consigned the 1972 book, The Limits to Growth, to “the dustbin of history.” However, 42 years of data now appear to vindicate the book’s premise, that the human enterprise must accept some limits on economic growth. Research published in 2014 by Dr. Graham Turner at […]

Population: Not Leveling Off

When it comes to the party that is planet Earth, we might need to plan for a few extra guests, according to scientists. A new statistical projection concludes that the world population is unlikely to level off during the 21st century, leaving the planet to deal with as many as 13 billion human inhabitants—4 billion […]

More Than Half of Africa’s Arable Land ‘Too Damaged’ for Food Production

A report published last month by the Montpellier Panel – an eminent group of agriculture, ecology and trade experts from Africa and Europe – says about 65 percent of Africa’s arable land is too damaged to sustain viable food production. The report, “No Ordinary Matter: conserving, restoring and enhancing Africa’s soil“, notes that Africa suffers […]

Renowned universities join to solve world’s water woes

The Arava desert, a salty wasteland dotted with tufts of scrub, gets only about an inch of rain each year. And yet cows lazily low at dairy farms that collectively produce nearly 8 million gallons of milk annually. Orange bell peppers flourish in a long swath of greenhouses that skirts the Jordanian border. Kibbutzim with […]

Our ‘energy slaves’ impact environment

When I explain to people that I have not purchased electricity for 10 years, they are envious. When I tell them I have not bought gasoline or oil or a smog check for four years, they are amazed. When I tell them they can do the same thing simply by shifting their priorities, they yawn. […]

A hard look at population control

In November, 13 women in India died after undergoing sterilization procedures at a state-run “population control camp.” No wonder. The doctor, R.K. Gupta, operated on 83 women on Nov. 8 in assembly-line fashion; government “guidelines” proscribe that 30 patients should be the maximum. To me, even more shocking than the deaths themselves was the fact […]

Towards a more sustainable world

In just 60 years, global population, consumption and pollution have all more than doubled. In another 60 years, in 2075, our 15-year-old grandchildren will be the same age as I am now. What do we want the world to look like in 2075? The first step to creating a more sustainable future is to create […]

Why water is not the new oil

“Water is the new oil.”Nowhere is this platitude more recited than here in Texas, where homegrown oil-and-gas money — and now even global capital — is flowing into the next resource boom: groundwater. T. Boone Pickens’ Mesa Water, which was the first to acquire groundwater rights from landowners for export to thirsty communities, is just […]

Fukushima radiation: US West Coast will likely see peak by end of 2015

At its peak, levels of radioactivity from cesium-137 will still fall far below levels that the US and Canadian governments deem unsafe for drinking water, according to a study published Monday in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. Scientists keeping tabs on the eastward voyage of radioactive byproducts from the 2011 Fukushima Daiichi […]

Practical Environmentalism In The Noisy World Of Energy

The world of energy (oil, pipelines, OPEC, fracking, gasoline prices, peak oil, tar sands and natural gas, to mention the most overly discussed) has entered a new phase, while reasserting its place in the world headlines. In the meantime, another very important American energy story—electricity for the present and future of America and its electrical […]

Fixing the Crowded Earth

When night falls on Kibera, it is like a door slamming shut. When the sun is up, things are hectic and loud, rough and fetid, but always safe and even welcoming: Bright colors abound and so do offers of nyama choma (roasted meat, usually goat) and bottles of Tusker, the local lager. Soon after the […]

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