Population Expert Welcomes Declining Fertility Rates

Declining fertility rates throughout the world should be welcomed, said Sarah Harper, an expert on population change at the University of Oxford. Her comments came in a report by The Guardian. She maintained the focus on boosting population was outdated and possibly bad for women. Women now have an average 2.4 children in their lifetime, […]

The Flight from Nature

A couple of weeks ago one of my readers pointed me to an op-ed piece on climate change by Canadian journalist David Moscrop, titled “It’s time for climate change defeatists to get out of the way.” If you’ve watched the slow-motion train wreck of climate change activism for more than a year or two, you […]

Will peak oil save Earth’s climate?

This year, international delegates gathered in Katowice, Poland for the thirty-second international climate meeting in 40 years. As they dithered over whether they should “welcome” or “note” the 1.5°C pathways report they had commissioned, our world was on pace to set another all-time record of 10.88 billion tonnes of annual carbon emissions. Carbon-dioxide in our […]

Too Many People Heating Up the Planet

The Trump Administration released the Fourth National Climate Assessment on Friday November 23, which concluded: “time is running out” to correct a coming climate catastrophe. Make no mistake about it, the only reason they released it at all is because publication was mandated by law. The conclusions in Climate Assessment #4 are, to say the least, […]

At UN, Gore Demands “Ubiquitous” Population Control for Climate

KATOWICE, Poland — Amid freezing temperatures and heavy snowfall, former U.S. Vice President Al Gore arrived at the United Nations COP24 “climate change” summit to preach about a looming “dark age” and a “hell on earth” if humanity refuses to accept his solutions to alleged man-made global warming. “It is real!” Gore (shown) pleaded Wednesday. […]

Carbon Civilisation and the Energy Descent Future

Just as the bird’s nest, the badger’s lodge and the bees’ hive require investments of energy for their construction and maintenance, so too with human settlements. Taken to the extremes of scale and intricacy, settlements in the form of cities constitute humanity’s most energy-intensive creations. In fact, cities might be viewed as meta-creations that enable […]

The Sound of a Second Shoe Dropping

“To avoid the worst of the predicted outcomes, global carbon emissions must be cut by half by 2030, to zero by 2050.“ Montage by author of images from Bartek Sadowski, Bloomberg Polish coal mining supplies 80% of the power to the UN climate summit.    A comment on one of my Facebook posts helped me […]

Over Half of the World’s Tropical Forests Have been Destroyed

UN Biodiversity Conference in progress in Sharm el Sheikh, Egypt. The conference ends November 29. Credit: International Institute for Sustainable Development (IISD) SHARM EL SHEIKH, Egypt, Nov 28 2018 (IPS) – Biodiversity conservationists have revealed that at least 10 more percent of land than what is currently being used to grow green crops will be […]

Analysis: Fossil-fuel Emissions in 2018 Increasing at Fastest Rate for Seven Years

Hopes that global CO2 emissions might be nearing a peak have been dashed by preliminary data showing that output from fossil fuels and industry will grow by around 2.7% in 2018, the largest increase in seven years. The new data, from researchers at the Global Carbon Project (GCP), is being published in Earth System Science Data Discussions and Environmental Research Letters to […]

“Collapse Of Civilisation Is On The Horizon” World Leaders Warned

– “Time is running out” – Sir David Attenborough “Continuation of civilisation is in your hands,” Attenborough warns world leaders – Mass extinction is “on the horizon” – Failure to ‘join the dots’ between environmental risks and significant economic challenges (Editors note: The world faces some very serious ecological challenges due to the pollution, destruction […]

How to save the world from ‘perfect storm’

Global warming is just one example of a problem that does not recognise national boundaries. Pandemics, migration, extremism, nuclear proliferation are some of the other problems that would be unresponsive to nationalist solutions. Someone has to rise to the occasion. The subcontinent is, according to previous US Presidents Bill Clinton and Barack Obama, “the most […]

Cities with no water

Water scarcity is a condition that surfaces when water resources are insufficient to fulfil people’s usage demands. For any region or country, water scarcity occurs if the availability of water is less than 1,000 m3/person/year. This is among the most serious problems that the world is currently facing. The reasons for this scarcity are surprisingly […]

A Hidden Radioactive Heat Source Seems To Be Melting Antarctica from Below

When it comes to measuring ice loss at the poles, and predicting what might happen next, scientists need as much accurate data as they can get – and a new study suggests there’s a big source of geothermal heat underneath East Antarctica that we haven’t yet factored into our calculations. Ice in this area appears […]

Welcome To Planet Earth by Caitlin Johnstone

Welcome to Planet Earth, where books written by dead men tell the living how to live. Where children who do not know how to live teach their children how to live. Where children pray for miracles using minds that are made of miracles with clasped hands that are made of miracles. Where children wander in […]

Drawdown: the Most Comprehensive Plan ever Proposed to Reverse Global Warming

Drawdown was a major collaborative effort involving 70 research fellows from 40 countries. It’s not so much a cohesive plan as a list of partial solutions: 80 that are tested and in use at least somewhere in the world, and another 20 that are speculative. The book has a few essays but is primarily composed […]

Researchers Discover Second Earth: Pack your bags

Researchers have confirmed the existence of a SECOND Earth located in the Proxima Centauri System. The planet is believed to have oceans just like Earth and may hay host alien life. In the past, thousands of exoplanets have been discovered in the universe, but none of them is like Proxima B. Proxima b, as has […]

How our food system is eating away at nature, and our future

As you eat your next meal, ask yourself if you really know what you’re eating – not just the ingredients or where they came from, but what has gone into them. How much land was needed? How much water was used? How much energy was required? We need to ask ourselves these questions, because how […]

Could A Limit On Kids Stop The World’s Population Crisis?

Listen as a KZN man shares his view on overpopulation in South Africa: <a href=”https://iono.fm/e/625867″>Content hosted by iono.fm</a> Worldometers reports that there are over 7.6-billion people out there in the world, while SA Government has reported that 56.52-million of those people reside in South Africa. These are scary statistics when you really think about it. […]

Where do you fit into the 7 billion people on Earth?

Have you ever found yourself wondering how many people there are on Earth? Or perhaps you are curious as to what your birth date may signify in the grand scheme of things. Or are you a teacher in search of a new learning tool to share with your students? Well, thankfully there is a great […]

‘Remarkable’ decline in fertility rates

There has been a remarkable global decline in the number of children women are having, say researchers. Their report found fertility rate falls meant nearly half of countries were now facing a “baby bust” – meaning there are insufficient children to maintain their population size. The researchers said the findings were a “huge surprise”. And […]

A Very Grim Forecast

Diane Burko Diane Burko: Grinnell Mt. Gould #1, #2, #3, #4, 2009; based on USGS photos of Grinnell Glacier at Glacier National Park, Montana, between 1938 and 2006. Burko’s work is on view in ‘Endangered: From Glaciers to Reefs,’ at the National Academy of Sciences, Washington, D.C., until January 31, 2019. The accompanying book is […]

Transition US Honors Movement Leaders

As part of “Unleashing the Collective Genius: Celebrating 10 Years of Transition in the US!” the first national online summit hosted by Transition US on October 27, 2018, members of the Transition US Collaborative Design Council presented seven awards to 10 individuals and organizations who have made significant contributions to community resilience-building efforts here in […]

Major Math Error Puts Widely-Cited Global Warming Study On Ice

An widely-circulated study which concluded that global warming is far worse than previously thought has been called into question by a math error, reports the Daily Caller‘s Michael Bastasch. Princeton scientist Laure Resplandy and researchers at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography concluded in October that the Earth’s oceans have retained 60% more heat than previously thought over […]

Tree Teachings: How Fossil Fuels and Climate Change Are Altering the Global Forest

Aerial survey showing dead and dying trees in California, August 2016. Climate change is killing off trees in several ways. Photo by Pacific Southwest Region 5 / CC BY 2.0. The world’s most ancient trees are failing. And their demise is telling us something about the dramatic impact of climate change on the natural world, […]

Responding to Collapse, Part 2: Climate Change

Discuss this article at the Environment Table inside the Diner       These squash just climbed up and helped themselves to a seat. The title for this series of posts started out as “Preparing for collapse”, but in my last post I immediately went into a rant about how I see a hard, fast, […]

Japan announces new plan to drain radioactive Fukushima water DIRECTLY into the Pacific Ocean

(Natural News) Government authorities in Japan have announced new plans to start dumping highly radioactive wastewater from the failed Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power facility directly into the Pacific Ocean. Though the amount of radiation in the water far exceeds legally-permitted levels, according to the plant’s operator and documents reviewed by the U.K.’s Telegraph, there’s apparently […]

Total Planetary Collapse: The truth is that we are literally running out of everything

The clock is ticking for humanity, and it is not just because our financial system is heading for the biggest implosion that any of us have ever seen.  The truth is that we are literally running out of everything.  We will not have enough oil to meet our energy needs long before we get to […]

Why Permaculture Puts Food First

“Had we heeded Malthus’s warning and kept the human population to less than one billion, we would not now be facing a torrid future.“ There are seven popular food crops in this picture  When I teach permaculture, and now having done more than 50 full design courses, I try to de-emphasize gardening. I do that […]

This plastic world

Over the last 20 years, we have been led to believe that drinking bottled water is saving us from disease. This belief needs to be shattered now. Plastic bottles are amongst the many sources of microplastic particles entering our bodies. A new study has confirmed microplastics in human excretion. The reports raise alarms over how […]

The Seneca Rebound: why Growth is Faster after Collapse. Explaining the European World Dominance

  Lisbon: the monument to the European sailors who explored the world, starting with the 15th century. What made Europeans so successful in this in this task? My interpretation is that it was the result of periodic “Seneca Collapses” of the European population which made it possible to accumulate resources that would then be available […]

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