Source – waldenlabs.com – “…When people project an imminent food crisis based on population growth or Peak Oil, they take for granted the agricultural methods we practice today. Thus, while the transitional period may involve temporary food shortages and real hardship, permaculture methods can easily feed the peak world population of perhaps 10 or 11…
Source -desultoryheroics.com – “…We have to create culture, don’t watch TV, don’t read magazines, don’t even listen to NPR. Create your own roadshow. The nexus of space and time where you are now is the most immediate sector of your universe”: Terence McKenna’s Disillusioned Perspective on Mass-Consumerist Culture – By Jordan Bates Since Terence McKenna’s passing…
Source – resilience.org – “…Sitting at home sewing facemasks; it seems like a paltry response to a spreading sickness that’s taking tens of thousands of lives, but it’s better than sitting on our hands and saying “Woe is me.” The same goes for climate change: figuring out how to eat lower on the food chain,…
Source – gnhre.org – “…The post-Cold War period is increasingly characterised by a specific political ecology closely linked to the geography and political economy of natural resources” The political ecology of war: natural resources and armed conflicts – By Philippe Le Billon Abstract: Throughout the 1990s, many armed groups have relied on revenues from natural…
Source – globalresearch.ca – “…Most market-based solutions necessitate putting a monetary value on nature, which plays into the paradigm of commercialisation: the value of the natural world is reduced to its potential for generating financial returns. Such solutions adhere to the logic of a neoliberal economic model that continues to dominate mainstream policy discourse even…
Source – commondreams.org – “…This rapidly accelerating environmental and social crisis is a direct and predictable consequence of global rules that facilitate a concentration of economic and political power in corporations—rules that provide minimum accountability for the consequences of how they use that power to monopolize markets, evade taxes, and operate in whatever place offers…
Source – globalresearch.ca – “…The Gates Foundation talks about health but facilitates the roll-out of a toxic form of agriculture whose agrochemicals cause immense damage. It talks of alleviating poverty and malnutrition and tackling food insecurity but it bolsters an inherently unjust global food regime which is responsible for perpetuating food insecurity, population displacement, land…
Source – theconversation.com – “…Inequalities in power, wealth and access to resources – not mere numbers – are key drivers of environmental degradation. The consumption of the world’s wealthiest 10 percent produces up to 50 percent of the planet’s consumption-based CO2 emissions, while the poorest half of humanity contributes only 10 percent. With a mere…
Source – naturalblaze.com – “…Chevron’s extraordinary campaign against Donziger has resulted in him being disbarred, having his personal bank accounts frozen, lien against his personal residence, and outrageous fines against him. Chevron, on the other hand, with market capital in the hundreds of billions of dollars, has already beaten the $9.5 billion in fines, and…
Source – stuartbramhall.wordpress.com – “…The current traffic hierarchy, with the car on top and with public transport, bikers and pedestrians at the bottom, manifests itself in the fact that these means of conveyance are given different amounts of space and resources. With the car on top of the traffic hierarchy we get a society built…
Source – earthtimes.org – “…Greer quotes research which suggests that nature supplies 75% of the value of a product, with humans only supplying 25% – thus three out of every four dollars of wealth is reliant on nature, not man’s ingenuity or technology. The third or tertiary economy, is money and financial services; here we…
Source – mintpressnews.com – “…The Guardian reported that just 100 companies are responsible for 71% of global greenhouse gas emissions. These include Exxon Mobil, Saudi Aramco, Shell, Chinese and Russian coal, Chevron, BP, CNPC, ConocoPhillips, Gazprom, Lukoil, Total, Petrobas and many others. One hundred incredibly rich yet morally bankrupt companies. That’s it” SM: …Which speaks…
Source – journal-neo.org – “…Stamped by our western Judeo-Christian guilt culture, we truly believe from the bottom of our hearts that paying a climate tax will free us from environmental responsibilities and put us back into our comfort zones. We then comfortably and guiltlessly continue driving our huge gas guzzling, CO2-emitting SUVs. That’s why the…
Source – strategic-culture.org – “…You Know Something Isn’t Right When…The first clue as to the ugly problem can be found in the simple fact that leading central bankers had already issued a call for the same new green banking system which Greta and the countless masses also demanded long before Extinction Rebellion, Fridays for the…
Source – caitlinjohnstone.com – “…There is no single, unified entity that is a larger polluter than America’s dishonestly labeled “Department of Defense”. Its yearly carbon output alone dwarfs that of entire first-world nations like Sweden and Portugal; if the US military were its own country it would rank 47th among emitters of greenhouse gasses, meaning…
Source – greenpeace.org – “…After 200 years of robust science and 40 years of global conferences based on that science, we’ve seen zero progress in reducing or even stabilizing human carbon emissions. The history shows us that our challenge with global heating is not the science, but the deceits of industry, failures of governments, cowardliness…
Source – localfutures.org – “…As environmentalism has gone mainstream during that half-century, it has forgotten its early focus and shifted toward green capitalism…The concept of possessing fewer objects and smaller homes has surrendered to the worship of eco-gadgets…The saying “Live simply so that others can simply live” now draws empty stares. Long forgotten are the…
Source – nakedcapitalism.com – “…The rate of deforestation in the Ecuadorian Amazon is reaching approximately 0.7% annually, while in Brazil it is only around 0.2%. So, the idea that only Bolsonaro is destroying the Amazon is obviously a hasty and simplistic one. Clearly, the problem with the depredation of the Amazon and, in general, of…
Source – theintercept.com – “…Two Brazilian firms owned by a top donor to President Donald Trump and Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell are significantly responsible for the ongoing destruction of the Amazon rainforest…The Bolsonaro administration has been quite explicit that it is not interested in doing so, putting top agribusiness officials in key posts, while…
Source – collective-evolution.com – “…The Olympics in Fukushima just defies imagination. And some of the areas where the athletes are going to be running, the dust and dirt there has been measured, and it’s highly radioactive. So, this is Abe, the Prime Minister of Japan, who set this up to – as a sort of…
Source – globalresearch.ca – “…. The hypothetical deforestation “tipping point” for the rainforest is 20%, a number that grants appealing apocalyptic forecasts and shocking media headlines but does not fit with the hard facts and common sense…The number of fires in the Legal Amazon (including the Cerrado) has also been falling since the record years…
Source – greenpeace.org – “…The idea that we should keep businesses growing by creating waste is no longer valid – and never was. We can employ more people by building quality products and repairing them. To reverse the trend of wasteful production, biodiversity collapse, carbon emissions that cause global heating, and general ecological overshoot, humanity…
Source – xrblog.org – ‘…The bottom line is that, while the oceans are shielding us from the worst of the heating caused by human activities, they can’t continue to do this forever. In addition, as they absorb more and more heat, so the life they contain is coming under increasing pressure. If we continue with…
Source – paulcraigroberts.org – “…President Lula de Silva and his successor Dilma Rousseff attempted to run Brazil in the interests of a broader segment of the population than the robber-baron capitalists….The more responsible policies of Lula and Rousseff enraged the Brazilian robber barons and their backers in Washington. Using the capitalist controlled press, Brazil’s gangster…
Source – oftwominds.com – “…Earthrise informs us that the only sustainable path is DeGrowth: squandering far fewer resources on consumerist waste, a path that will spell the end of the current Landfill Economy of profit-driven eternal growth, and the entire financialization structure built on the Landfill Model that enriches the few at the expense of…
Source – stuartbramhall.wordpress.com – ‘…Every year, the world heals a little more from the ravages of industrial capitalism. The amount of real forest and wetlands have increased as some areas rewild, while heavily inhabited areas become healthy ecosystems thanks to gardening, permaculture, and the elimination of cars. Greenhouse gas levels in the atmosphere are actually…
Source – peakprosperity.com – “…The UN now predicts a million more species will go extinct within the next few decades. But in today’s bizarro world, there’s a perverted incentive to sacrifice biological capital for financial capital. The scarcer the tuna become, the higher the price the fisherman will get for his catch at market. As…
Source – earthfirstjournal.org – “…Some 1 million species of plants and animals face extinction, new research from the United Nations has found….Thomas Lovejoy, a biologist at George Mason University and the “godfather of biodiversity” – “in shaping the world to our will, humans have paradoxically weakened the very foundation on which our own existence rests”…
Source – globalresearch.ca – ‘…The Rockefellers’ impact on the energy industry sees no bounds, as the family’s objectives permeate throughout federal and state energy policy, as well as international social engineering globalist compacts such as Agenda 21. With the immeasurable influence that accompanies mass wealth and power, the Rockefeller empire has proven an effective puppeteer…
Source – greenpeace.org – “…Rees emphasizes that capitalist economics reinforces our short-term, selfish instincts by presuming endless growth on a finite planet. Many ecological economists have pointed out that such growth is a biophysical and thermodynamic impossibility…The youth movements, exemplified now by Extinction Rebellion, Greta Thunberg, and others, offer the potential for a deep change…
Source – zerohedge.com – “…A 2018 study of Norway has punctured these theories by showing that IQs are dropping not just across societies but within families. In other words, the issue is not that educated Norwegians are increasingly outnumbered by lower-IQ immigrants or the children of less-educated citizens. Even children born to high-IQ parents are…
Source – stuartbramhall.wordpress.com – “…In the early 70s, Swedish Prime Minister Olof Palme launched the first campaign to have the UN declare ecocide as a crime against humanity. He did so in reaction to America’s total decimation of Vietnam’s jungle habitat via Agent Orange and indiscriminate bombing…Palme was assassinated in 1986” Why Earth Destruction is…
Source – geoengineeringwatch.org – “…Erratic and unprecedented weather is radically increasing all over the world. Though there are countless forms of human activity affecting the equation, the global climate engineering assault is by far the single greatest and most destructive factor. The geoengineers are manufacturing winter weather scenarios on a scale that can scarcely be…
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