What happens if the population forecasts are wrong?

The assumption that global population will peak around 9-10bn may be overly optimistic — and if it is, population will continue to rise, placing enormous strains on the environment In a mere half-century, the number of people on the planet has soared from 3 billion to 7 billion, placing us squarely in the midst of […]

Oil Gateway

Stop the Flows is the working title for subMedia.TV’s next project. Over the next five years we will document resistance movements that are working towards stopping the flows of hydro carbons, mineral extraction, natural resources and capital, through grassroots and underground organizing. We will publish our dispatches as we complete them with the goal of […]

Sick Gulf residents continue to blame BP

Just weeks after BP’s oil disaster in the Gulf of Mexico began on April 20, 2010, Fritzi Presley knew something was very wrong with her health. The 57-year-old singer/songwriter from Long Beach, Mississippi began to feel sick, and went to her doctor. “I began getting treatments for bronchitis, was put on several antibiotics and rescue […]

The Global Water Crisis

On September 16, 2011, water experts will gather in New York for a conference at the United Nations entitled the “International Water Forum”, the focus of which will be the alarming global water predicament. The mood at the U.N. will be somber. The water supply and sanitation situation around the world can only be described […]

Chevron confirms Gulf of Mexico oil leak

A leak from a shallow water crude oil pipeline in the Main Pass Area of the Gulf of Mexico has led Chevron to shut down its offshore Louisiana Main Pass pipeline network, the company said on Tuesday. Chevron has also shut its Cypress line, the company said. About 15,000 barrels per day (bpd) of crude […]

Water, oil and food – a crisis for Saudi Arabia and the world

A water crisis is unfolding in Saudi Arabia that could have profound implications for both the Saudi people and for the rest of the world. Last week, Reuters published a feature describing how Saudi Arabia’s water crisis is eating into its oil revenues. According to the article, “water use in the desert kingdom is already […]

Inside Japan’s nuclear ghost zone

Nothing stirs in the empty heart of Tomioka, a community of 16,000 now reduced to the eerie status of a ghost town after the nuclear disaster at Fukushima. The shops of the main street are deserted, motorbikes and cars are abandoned, weeds push through gaps in the concrete. Vending machines selling drinks and snacks – […]

New evidence cites more BP oil spill mistakes

A key federal report into what caused the worst offshore oil spill in U.S. history was being readied for release as early as Wednesday amid revelations that BP made critical mistakes on the well and failed to tell its partners and the U.S. government when it realized it. An investigation team of the U.S. Coast […]

Orlov: How I Survived Hurricane Irene

Quite a few well-meaning people have written to ask me how I survived the recent hurricane. Some have even suggested that I should give up living aboard and flee to higher ground. We spent the entire event at the dock, bobbing up and down slightly and leaning over a bit in the wind gusts. By […]

Kunstler: Seeing Stars

I don’t want to be party pooper, but is it possible that all the 9/11 remembrance hoopla was a kind of weekend refuge from reality for this psychologically spavined nation? Memorializing is easy; acting resolutely in the here-and-now is another matter. To me, the various  9/11 doings that radiated out over the media gave off […]

Prince Charles warns of ‘sixth extinction event’

Mankind faces extinction, the Prince of Wales has warned, unless humans transform our lifestyles to stop mass consumption, run away climate change and destruction of wildlife. In his first speech as the new President of the Worldwide Wildlife Fund (WWF) UK, Prince Charles suggested ‘surviving ourselves’ should be a priority. Referring to himself as “an […]

Center for Biological Diversity Launches Campaign Linking Human Overpopulation, Species Extinction

As the world population nears 7 billion people, the Center for Biological Diversity today launched a new national campaign highlighting the close connection between human overpopulation and the global species extinction crisis. As part of the “7 Billion and Counting” campaign, the Center is giving away 100,000 of its popular Endangered Species Condoms, launching a […]

Updates From Fukushima and the Gulf

Covering the Leaking Reactors At Fukushima With Tents Will Only INCREASE Global Exposure to Radiation When I first heard that Tepco will place large tents over its leaking Fukushima reactors, I reacted with derision, as did Tyler Durden: Artist’s impression of this latest Japanese venture: My reaction a couple of weeks later – after seeing […]

Oil Exploration Under Arctic Ice Could Cause Uncontrollable Natural Disaster

Any serious oil spill in the ice of the Arctic, the “new frontier” for oil exploration, is likely to be an uncontrollable environmental disaster despoiling vast areas of the world’s most untouched ecosystem, one of the world’s leading polar scientists has told The Independent. Oil from an undersea leak will not only be very hard […]

Ugo Bardi: Cassandra and the limits to growth

Sometimes I wonder how it was that Cassandra, the Trojan prophetess, had so much trouble in convincing her fellow Trojan citizen that it was not such a good idea to demolish the city walls to let in that big, wooden horse. Maybe she spoke in riddles and using obscure language, as fitting for a prophetess. […]

The Top 10 Myths About Natural Gas Drilling

Claim No. 1 “WE ARE THE SAUDI ARABIA OF NATURAL GAS.” SEN. JOHN KERRY, D-MASS., MAY 2010 Less than a decade ago, industry analysts and government officials fretted that the United States was in danger of running out of gas. No more. Over the past several years, vast caches of natural gas trapped in deeply […]

The Coming Global Water Crisis | Peak Water

Our planet is running out of usable, potable water. This could be a greater disaster than Peak Oil

The return of the BP disaster?

Fifteen months after BP’s crippled Macondo Well in the Gulf of Mexico caused the worst environmental disaster in US history, oil and oil sheen covering several square miles of water are surfacing not far from BP’s well. According to oil trackers with the organisation On Wings of Care who have been monitoring the oil since […]

What Is Your Energy Philosophy?

People seem to like to infer motives. (Perhaps it’s an inherent evolutionary trait, allowing anticipation of your prey’s or predator’s next move?) I find that a lot of people get me wrong about my position on energy and sustainability — often deliberately so, I suspect. So here’s a post to clarify my position, and allow […]

Radiation Above Chernobyl Evacuation Limits Found In Tokyo

Full Story: http://blog.alexanderhiggins.com/2011/08/21/ny-times-large-areas-japan-declar… In a deceitful article, the NY Times has announced that Japan is expected officially declare a large area of Japan surrounding Fukushima indefinitely uninhabitable, perhaps for decades. The Times article however misleads the reader on several points, including implying that harmful levels of radiation have only been found within the 12 mile […]

UN warns of mutant strain of bird flu virus

Food agency says new strain of H5N1 avian flu is spreading in Asia and may breach defences of existing vaccines. The UN Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) has warned of a possible resurgence of the deadly bird flu virus, saying that a mutant strain is spreading in Asia. A mutant strain of the H5N1 avian […]

BP’s Gulf Oil Well Is Leaking Again: “It’s A Dead Ringer For The [BP] Oil, As Good A Match As I’ve Seen”

The Press-Register reports today: Scientific analysis has confirmed that oil bubbling up above BP’s sealed Deepwater Horizon well in recent days is a chemical match for the hundreds of millions of gallons of oil that spewed into the Gulf last summer. The Press-Register collected samples of the oil about a mile from the well site […]

Fukushima radiation leaks ‘equal 168 Hiroshimas’

Government nuclear experts, however, said the World War II bomb blast and the accidental reactor meltdowns at Fukushima, which has seen ongoing radiation leaks but no deaths so far, were beyond comparison. The amount of caesium-137 released since the three reactors were crippled by the March 11 quake and tsunami has been estimated at 15,000 […]

DC Nuclear Plant Near Epicenter Shuts Down

A nuclear power plant located in Louisa County, the epicenter of the earthquake in Virginia, has shut down. The North Anna Power Station, operated by Dominion Power, has two reactors.  Both reactors tripped automatically at the time of the quake and shut down. The plant declared an “unusual event” in the wake of the 5.8 […]

Malthus, Famine, Disease and World Population

Thomas Robert Malthus (1766-1834) was an English Scholar influential in political economy and demography. He wrote six editions of An Essay on the Principle of Population from 1798-1826. In 18th century Europe society popularly believed society as improving and perfectible. Malthus, however, believed the dangers of population growth would preclude endless progress toward a utopian […]

Three paths to near-term human extinction

About a decade ago I realized we were putting the finishing touches on our own extinction party, with the party probably over by 2030. During the intervening period I’ve seen nothing to sway this belief, and much evidence to reinforce it. Yet the protests, ridicule, and hate mail reach a fervent pitch when I speak […]

China: ConocoPhillips finds 9 oil spill sources

A Chinese authority says the local unit of ConocoPhillips has found nine oil spill sources amid intensifying pressure on the company to clean up oil spills in the Bohai Bay. The North China Sea branch of the State Oceanic Administration says ConocoPhillips “admitted” Saturday that there were nine oil spill sources found on the northwest […]

Fukushima Japan – the China Syndrome Meltthrough in Progress?

Helpful Links: Fairewinds Associates/Arnie Gundersen: http://www.fairewinds.com/ http://ex-skf.blogspot.com/2011/04/fukushima-i-nuke-plant-japan-nuclear.html http://enenews.com/ Nuclear Regulatory Commission daily reports (what’s happening at nuclear plants near you): http://www.nrc.gov/reading-rm/doc-collections/event-status/event/2011/index.html Fukushima links: http://lucaswhitefieldhixson.com/lucaswebcamwatch.html http://www.youtube.com/user/fuku1live Weather (radiation flow) from Fukushima: http://www.stormsurfing.com/cgi/display_alt.cgi?a=glob_250 News and Updates: http://nukefree.org/ http://www.youtube.com/user/MsMilkytheclown?blend=1&ob=5 http://www.scoop.it/t/nuclear-news-what-the-physics http://www3.nhk.or.jp/daily/english/04_04.html http://www.llrc.org/ Miscellaneous: http://hisz.rsoe.hu/alertmap/index2.php http://aslwww.cr.usgs.gov/Seismic_Data/heli2_us.shtml http://www.weather.gov/view/states.php http://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/recenteqsww/Quakes/quakes_all.php#DISC… http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kfgYRIGjNkA http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=25884 http://news.lucaswhitefieldhixson.com/ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q98cMHsBsks http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/08/110815152027.htm SACE Bellefonte Nuclear Plant (Alabama, TVA) […]

Study Blames Humans for Half of Recent Arctic Ice Melt

A new study funded by the National Science Foundation is the first to attribute a specific proportion of the record Arctic ice melt to greenhouse gases and particulates from pollution. The study says about half the record ice loss is related to the increasing greenhouse gases, and that conditions will become more volatile from year […]

Update From Fukushima

Radiation Expert: Huge Quantities of Radiation Are Still Being Released from Fukushima … And Radiation Levels In Some Parts of Tokyo Are Higher than In the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone Huge Quantities of Radiation Are Still Being Released By Fukushima Radiation expert Dr. Chris Busby says that huge quantities of radiation – 1013 or 10 trillion […]

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