The Bees’ Needs

The sky darkens above the ruins of a cluster of ponderosa pine that burned 20 years ago. Two women stand amid grass and wildflowers, in a field studded with the charred stumps and downed trunks of dead trees. In the dry hills of Montana’s Helena National Forest, the landscape can take decades to recover after […]

Why Do These Tank Cars Carrying Oil Keep Blowing Up?

Early on the morning of July 6, 2013, a runaway freight train derailed in Lac-Mégantic, Quebec, setting off a series of massive explosions and inundating the town in flaming oil. The inferno destroyed the downtown area; 47 people died. The 72-car train had been carrying nearly 2 million gallons of crude oil from North Dakota’s […]

When will we run out of space? Human Population Growth

So how many people is too many people. To get a feel for human population growth, we introduce it quickly with an example from fish tank – the guppies. This video is far from a complete video on human population growth. It should serve as an introduction though and allow us to create other videos […]

World Population Crisis

“Individually we may be brilliant, collectively we’re dumb as a rock”

Japan Begins Purposely Dumping 100s Of Tons Of Radioactive Water From Fukushima Into The Pacific

How do you get rid of hundreds of tons of highly radioactive water?  You dump it into the Pacific Ocean of course!  In Japan, the  Tokyo Electric Power Co. has made the “painful decision” to begin purposely dumping massive amounts of radioactive water currently being stored at the destroyed Fukushima nuclear facility directly into the […]

Paul Ehrlich Suggests Cannibalism to Control “Overpopulation”

Paul Ehrlich a radically pro-abortion population control professor of “Ethics” from Stanford has claimed overpopulation could lead to humanity having to eat the bodies of the dead. ‘We will soon be asking is it perfectly okay to eat the bodies of your dead because we’re all so hungry?,‘ he told HuffPost live host Josh Zepps. Paul […]

The Myth of Price

Our society’s prevailing economic zeitgeist assumes that everything has a price, and that both costs and prices can be objectively calculated, or at least agreed upon by parties involved in the transaction.  There are some big problems with this proposition. Externalized costs are involuntary transactions — those on the receiving end of the externalities have not […]

Sustainable Land Use

I would like to thank Azniv Petrosyan for suggesting the use of remote imaging to assess land use, in particular to assess bio-diversity in wilderness areas.  Other than that I do not see how her paper “A Model for Incorporated Measurement of Sustainable Development Comprising Remote Sensing Data and Using the Concept of Biodiversity” can […]

China’s Thirst for Coal is Drying Up

As the ‘airpocalypse‘ news out of China continues to grow, what we predicted more than a year ago is now increasingly obvious – China’s seemingly endless coal demand is a myth, and the Chinese coal boom is over. What we often hear about a never-ending demand for coal in China has turned out to be […]

The Biggest Mideast Crisis You Probably Don’t Know Enough About

The Middle East’s seemingly endless conflicts are diverting attention and resources from a graver long-term threat that looms over the whole region: the growing scarcity of water. And the situation will get worse before it gets better — if it ever does get better. Years of war, careless water supply management, unchecked population growth, ill-advised […]

Fukushima Seawater Radiation Rises To New All Time High

The mainstream media may have long forgotten about the Fukushima tragedy (as it certainly goes against the far more popular and palatable meme of a Japan “recovery” courtesy of Abenomics) but that does not mean it is fixed or even contained. Quite the contrary. As a rare update from Japan’s Jiji news agency reminds us, […]

‘Crude Awakening’ examines effects of BP oil spill cleanup

While lots of attention has been focused recently on a “60 Minutes” report on BP’s claims of fraud in the settlement over the 2010 Deepwater Horizon oil spill, a report on HBO’s “Vice,” airing over this week, sharply criticizes the company’s use of chemical dispersant in its cleanup efforts. “Crude Awakening,” which premiered Friday (May […]

Source of Fukushima’s Nagging Radioactive Leak Finally Discovered

The source of the radioactive leak at the earthquake-stricken Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant was finally identified by the facility’s operator TEPCO to be in the primary containment vessel of reactor 3, authorities reported. It was in January when the crew of the plant first noticed that water was leaking through to the drain on […]

On Overpopulation and Ecosystem Collapse

Earth’s biosphere is collapsing and dying as human industrial growth overwhelms ecosystems and abruptly changes climate. Equity, education, condoms, and lower taxes and other incentives to stabilize and then reduce human population are a huge part of the solution. THE FALL Earth in overshoot; human growth is killing her; the end of being.   The […]

The Myth Of Over-Population

The world is overpopulated. The street are clogged, traffic is in a snarl, and people are living – both figuratively and literally – right on top of each other. There’s hardly enough room to swing a cat these days, right? Wrong. The world is not overcrowded at all. There are vast swaths of unpopulated land […]

Rate of honey bee losses in the US ‘economically unsustainable’

Losses of managed honey bee colonies in the US totalled 23.2% last winter, according to a report by the US Department of agriculture. The report, produced with industry group the Bee Informed Partnership, showed that the death rate for October 2013 to April of this year was better than the 30.5% losses for 2012 to […]

Changing the Discussion: It’s All About People

“It’s always amazing when a United Nations report that has global ramifications comes out with little fanfare.”  So starts an article in Forbes talking about the most recent UNSCEAR report on the consequences of the Fukushima accident in Japan.  Three years after the accident, UNSCEAR, the United Nations body mandated to assess and report levels […]

Population Issues

Population – its all about the people… Population density The map above show the global population density. The darker or more concentrated the red colour the more people who live in one square mile.While India and China’s economies are in full bloom, in terms of population density both places are seeing red. As it stands, […]

A future of thirst: Water crisis lies on the horizon

The next time your throat is as dry as a bone and the Sun is beating down, take a glass of clean, cool water. Savour it. Sip by sip. Vital and appreciated as that water is, it will be even more precious to those who will follow you. By the end of this century, billions […]

The greatest threat to our water is fracking for natural gas

I recently wrote to David Black, newspaper owner/manager, in response to his support for the oil/gas pipelines and refinement industry.  After watching the ‘Gasland 2′ documentary on Youtube, even he had to admit the toxicification of our aquifers by fracking for natural gas is, quote, “Alarming”. I recommend taking the time to view ‘Gasland 2′ […]

Oil Crude Train Derail in Colorado

Crews from Union Pacific Railroad worked to clear a six-car oil train derailment that leaked some crude into a ditch Friday in northern Colorado. State and local emergency officials determined that one car of the 100-car train was leaking after the 8 a.m. derailment near LaSalle, about 45 miles north of Denver. The cause of […]

This planet comes with limits

When I was in my 20s, a girlfriend surprised me by saying that we didn’t have to worry about overpopulation because technology would make sure we always had what everyone needed. Of course, economists have been saying this for decades. And of course, billions of people today don’t have what they need. Because such people […]

Heinberg: The Anthropocene: It’s Not All About Us

We need to recognize we share the planet with millions of other life forms Time to celebrate! Woo-hoo! It’s official: we humans have started a new geological epoch – the Anthropocene. Who’d have thought that just one species among millions might be capable of such an amazing accomplishment? Let’s wait to stock up on party […]

Only 12% of the world’s population breathe clean air

A report released Wednesday by the World Health Organization (WHO) revealed that air quality deteriorates gradually in the world and more than half of the world population living in cities with pollution levels 2.5 times higher recommended by the agency. The report made an analysis of air quality in 600 cities of 91 thousand countries, […]

Of Fossil Fuels and Human Destiny

There have been hundreds of books and essays written on the evolution of Homo sapiens and I assume you are familiar with that history. In this short essay I am going to point out a few things that are usually left out of that story, the part that deals with the very nature of the […]

BP Oil Is Becoming ‘Part Of The Geological Record’ Of The Sea Floor

Life is returning to the Macondo well blowout site that resulted in the largest accidental marine oil spill in history, according to a research crew who journeyed to the well site last month. Researchers from the University of Georgia, Florida State University, and University of North Carolina spent March 30 through April 22 in the […]

How Fracking Is Exposing People to Radioactive Waste

There isn’t a lot of good news about fracking lately. Another train with volatile fracked crude oil from North Dakota’s Bakken Shale exploded in Lynchburg, Virginia igniting a ball of fire on the surface of the James River. Accidents involving these “bomb trains” are becoming commonplace. So are recent studies indicating serious health risks from […]

Colorado faces oil boom “death sentence” for soil, eyes microbe fix

Colorado’s intensifying oil and gas boom is taking a toll on soil — 200 gallons spilled per day seeping into once-fertile ground — that experts say could be ruinous. The state’s approach has been to try to compel companies to excavate and haul the worst muck to landfills. But with support from state regulators, oil […]

As the world’s population grows, are we borrowing from mankind’s future?

Environmental apostles are only too ready to tell us what is wrong with society. But they go mum over the subject of people — specifically, too many people. Doug Struck Author Alan Weisman. One need not drill very far into any given assault on the environment to find an explanation in the world’s hurtling population. […]

The Bacteria That Can Mitigate Fracked Natural Gas Before It Pollutes the Atmosphere

By the ton, methane from fracking has about 20 times the global warming effect of carbon dioxide. Researchers at a college in the United Kingdom believe they have found a tiny way to mitigate the greenhouse gas before it spreads into the atmosphere. Methylocella silvestris, a single bacterial strain found in soil and other environments around the […]

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