The Fukushima Accident—Three Months In

Three months after Japan’s devastating earthquake and tsunami, the extent of the country’s nuclear crisis is becoming clearer. In a new Q&A, James Acton and Mark Hibbs detail the latest information available about the Fukushima Daiichi plant at the center of Japan’s nuclear emergency and analyze how the crisis will impact the use of nuclear […]

What Peak? Greenhouse emissions keep increasing

Recently released emission data from IEA. Reproduced from “Skeptical Science“. Back in the early 2000s, when I was starting to study peak oil, I used to think that oil depletion was our main problem. Climate change seemed to me a threat for the remote future and, probably, automatically solved by the depletion of fossil fuels. […]

Ox-scam slam

There has been no shortage of media coverage of various scenarios accusing governments and even capitalism itself as culprits in exacerbating the global shortages of food, rising costs and periodic famine. But a new report from Oxfam, the London-based social justice NGO, might be the harshest critique yet. Dame Barbara Stocking, Oxfam’s CEO, claimed last […]

Evacuation zone, permanent, expanded as radiation expands

Japan has doubled its estimate of the amount of radiation spewed out by the Fukushima nuclear plant in the week after the crisis began. It comes after confirmation that plutonium has been found outside the facility for the first time. Even before these revelations Japanese authorities were urging residents living just outside the Fukushima no-go […]

Tom Friedman: The Earth Is Full

You really do have to wonder whether a few years from now we’ll look back at the first decade of the 21st century — when food prices spiked, energy prices soared, world population surged, tornados plowed through cities, floods and droughts set records, populations were displaced and governments were threatened by the confluence of it […]

Japan doubles Fukushima radiation leak estimate

Japan has more than doubled its estimate of radiation that escaped from the tsunami-hit Fukushima nuclear plant in the first week after the disaster. Japan’s nuclear safety agency also said meltdowns took place in three reactors more quickly than earlier believed. The assessment comes as an expert panel begins an inquiry into the crisis. The […]

Why is the UN arbitrarily inflating population predictions?

You will be glad to learn that we all have official permission from the UN people-counters to panic about about “overpopulation” — yet again. The U.N. Population Division apparently decided that its earlier predictions about world population growth were too restrained. So it upped the ante in its 2010 report, revising almost all of its […]

Is Anyone Paying Attention?

Dire events continue at Japan’s Fukushima Dai-ichi nuke plant. Politically Incorrect I have been following closely the events unfolding at Japan’s Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear plant and, despite the impression you may have, the situation is dire. Three reactors in at least partial meltdown, severe damage at the spent fuel pond of a fourth, at least […]

3 nuclear reactors melted down after quake, Japan confirms

Japan’s Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant experienced full meltdowns at three reactors in the wake of an earthquake and tsunami in March, the country’s Nuclear Emergency Response Headquarters said Monday. The nuclear group’s new evaluation, released Monday, goes further than previous statements in describing the extent of the damage caused by an earthquake and tsunami […]

Michael Klare: How to wreck the planet 101

Here’s the good news about energy: thanks to rising oil prices and deteriorating economic conditions worldwide, the International Energy Agency (IEA) reports that global oil demand will not grow this year as much as once assumed, which may provide some temporary price relief at the gas pump.  In its May Oil Market Report, the IEA […]

Taking Care of the Topsoil

Following my inclusion in the Top 10 list of ethanol enemies, I sought to Set the Ethanol Record Straight on my actual views on ethanol. I set out three broad tenets that shape my views. They are: Tenet One: We must transition from fossil fuels with a sense of urgency. Tenet Two: We need to […]

How to cope with 10 billion people

A United Nations report released a few weeks ago says the world’s population is expected to exceed 7 billion in October, just 12 years after reaching 6 billion, but another prediction is more pessimistic; instead of stabilizing at the projected 9 billion in 2050, the world’s population may hit 10.1 billion by the end of […]

Fukushima: French research institute finds high radioactivity

A French independent radioactivity watchdog has found radiation in Fukushima Prefecture 60 times higher than the annual reference level for ordinary people recommended by an international commission. Bruno Chareyron, director of the research institute CRIIRAD, briefed reporters in Tokyo on Wednesday on the results of its survey of the air in Fukushima Prefecture. The measurements […]

Chris Martenson Interviews Arnie Gundersen : The Dangers of Fukushima Are Worse and Longer-lived Than We Think

“I have said it’s worse than Chernobyl and I’ll stand by that. There was an enormous amount of radiation given out in the first two to three weeks of the event. And add the wind and blowing in-land. It could very well have brought the nation of Japan to its knees. I mean, there is […]

Water, Water Everywhere

As the global population continues to swell, supplies of clean drinking water have grown increasingly scarce. Although 70 percent of the Earth is covered in water, only 3 percent of this is fresh water. Much of this fresh water is locked in ice caps, inaccessible or unusable, leaving only 0.3 percent available for human consumption. […]

Radiated Water at Fukushima Plant May Breach Storage Trenches in Five Days

Radioactive water accumulating in Tokyo Electric Power Co.’s crippled Fukushima Dai-Ichi nuclear plant is set to start overflowing from storage trenches in five days, data provided by the company show. To prevent leakage into the ocean, the utility has poured concrete and gravel to seal off storage trenches closest to the sea containing water from […]

Climate Change Doesn’t Matter Anymore

My provocative title represents the increasing awareness that we don’t need to believe in climate change to do the right thing when it comes to energy. Of course, climate change is a real threat to us and our environment. But there are many highly valid reasons to become more energy efficient, conserve energy through behavior […]

Down and dirty: Is peak soil more pressing than peak oil?

Filmed as part of the 2011 Ideas Festival, Brisbane. Visiting the US ‘Dust Bowl’ in 1929, future President Roosevelt observed: “a nation that destroys its soils destroys itself”. Vegetarianism and veganism are on the rise as ethical dietary choices. However, the undiscussed consequence of this trend is the increase of large-scale cereal agriculture and its […]

Overshoot, We Are Here

If we don’t blow ourselves off the face of the earth in the struggle for diminishing scarce resources, humanity will survive. We are a powerfully resourceful and inventive animal. However, if we don’t address the issues below then in the long run it will be same old, same old. We will repeat what all animals […]

Facing The New Dark Age: A Grassroots Approach

Despite four decades of detailed warnings, industrial civilization has failed to turn aside from self-destructive policies of exponential growth and dependence on nonrenewable resources. At this point, stark limits of time and resources as well as a failure of political will make attempts to prevent the fall of industrial society an exercise in futility. Individuals, […]

TEPCO now admits that three Fukushima reactors have melted, large holes present in containment vessels

The Tokyo Electric Power Company’s (TEPCO) house of cards is toppling, as it has now been revealed that three reactors at the crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power facility all melted shortly after the devastating earthquake and tsunami hit them on March 11 (http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2011-…). TEPCO also now admits that holes likely exist in the reactors’ containment […]

Permaculture, Peak Oil, Climate Change and the Soul of the World

Anima Mundi official trailer 2011 – Permaculture, Peak Oil, Climate Change and the Soul of the World. Will you survive the transition of human industrial civilization happening now due to peak oil and climate change? Can you see the forest for the trees, the earth for the dream, the universe for the seed? Anima Mundi […]

Ten Thousand Holes in Fuku Dai-ichi

I read the news today (…) and it seems that there are a growing number of holes at the Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear facility. Although nobody has actually seen them, much less counted them all, holes from 3cm to perhaps 7cm in diameter are believed to exist in the primary containment vessels for at least two […]

Japan: Three meltdowns and now cracks in containment vessel

The operator of the troubled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant says data analyses suggest damage to its reactors may have caused cracks and openings in the reactor containment vessels equivalent to a 10-centimeter hole. Reactors 1 through 3 at the plant suffered nuclear fuel meltdowns after the March 11th earthquake and tsunami. This is likely to […]

TEPCO Confirms Partial Meltdown of No.2 and No.3 Reactors

The operator of the crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant says findings show that fuel meltdowns may have occurred at the No.2 and No.3 reactors within days of the March 11th earthquake. But it says both reactors are now stable at relatively low temperatures. Tokyo Electric Power Company said earlier this month that fuel rods at […]

20 terabecquerels of radioactive materials flowed out to Pacific

Tokyo Electric Power Co. said Saturday that 250 tons of water tainted with about 20 terabecquerels of radioactive substances leaked into the Pacific Ocean from a pit near the seawater intake for the No. 3 reactor at the troubled Fukushima No. 1 plant earlier this month. While the figure is far lower than the 4,700 […]

Fukushima Update: A Very Bad Situation

Well, it now turns out that many of my worst fears about Fukushima have been confirmed with the news that TEPCO has finally admitted that Reactor #1 has experienced a meltdown event that may have breached the primary containment vessel. Further, truly alarming levels of radiation are now being reported in and around Tokyo. The […]

Contamination: The totalitarian strategy of the GMO crop industry

Certainly, many of us know people who say (wrongly) that nowadays everything causes cancer. This view becomes a justification for making no effort to avoid carcinogens, especially in food. It is a case of learned helplessness that becomes a major public relations weapon for creating and maintaining docile populations. Make people feel powerless. Then, even […]

The Fukushima meltdown was always worse than thought

SP at TOD ANZ has a look at the failure of the nuclear power zealots at “Brave New Climate” to provide accurate or unbiased commentary when looking at the Fukushima disaster – Fukushima was always worse than thought. While a prominent Australian based pro nuclear site went in hard and fast (prematurely) extolling the safety […]

Fukushima Reactors a Raging Nuclear Inferno

Professor Christopher Busby, who sits on the European Committee on Radiation Risks, told RT yesterday that the reactors at Fukushima are a raging nuclear inferno and he believes at least one of the reactors is now outside its containment structure and emitting vast amounts of radiation into the atmosphere. The Japanese newspaper Asahi reports today […]

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