Climate Brief: Economic collapse is bearing down on us
Prices are going to rise, probably exponentially, over the next few decades. The reason for that's simple: everything, more or less, has been artificially cheap. The costs...
A Morning Muse: Whatever happened to “liberal” Internationalism?
Now firstly it is important to define Internationalism since commonly it is divided into three different major categories. 1] Hegemonic Internationalism example: Globalization [Colonization]. Main...
Businesses must see a “benefit” in fighting climate change.
I was listening to an Apple representative explain this: Apple and partners launch first-ever $200 million Restore Fund to accelerate natural solutions to climate change...
Trump refused manatees endangered species protection; hundreds now dead; Red tide looming.
The Florida Piney Point phosphate plant in Manatee county has been releasing 202 million gallons of wastewater into Tampa Bay since the risk of collapse of...
I am a proud member of the Devil's Army
Replying to Representative Adam Kinzinger’s family, what a sad letter diatribe to send to one of your own. I am a democratic socialist. I am...
Ecologists warn of a lethal, ghastly future, and they insist we stop sugarcoating it.
"In all things of nature, there is something of the marvelous." ~ Aristotle It is a fact that the biggest threat to our species is...
Suffragist Eunice Foote was first to describe the greenhouse gas effect- a man got the credit.
Eunice Foote was born in NY state in 1819. She had gone to university at the Troy Female Seminary (N/K/A Emma Willard School), where she was encouraged to...
Trump’s trashing of the climate is more severe than previously thought, says Biden climate team.
A senior Biden climate team transition official alerted E&E News that the damage Trump and his fossil fuel grifters (that have held power over the agencies...
AntiCapitalist MeetUp: Pascal went to the races, then gets mugged because he kept his carbon credits
The neoliberals’ “free market” is not going to sequester enough carbon to save the environment. Even Warren Buffett isn’t willing to take a bet on...
A symbol for the mistreatment of the Navajo Nation has been toppled; earthlings rejoice.
Blessings to all the activists, particularly Tó Nizhóní Án, whose 40-year grassroots efforts help heal our damaged planet and potentially protect us from a cataclysmic future for...
The only coral reefs predicted to survive climate change are now threatened by an enormous oil spill
Yemen’s Houthi rebels in Yemen finally gave the United Nations access to a disintegrating oil tanker that threatens the northern Red Sea and Gulf of Aqaba's...
“One of the many Marx toys, have you all of them?” part 4
This post in the Anticapitalist Chat supports a group reading of Karl Marx’s Capital Vol 1. #GoodMorningMarx #WeeklyMarx This covers chapters 15 and 16. Chapter 15...
Australian DNA study finds two new species of Greater Glider, and they're adorable.
The Greater Glider, one of many marsupials that evolved in Australia, is three species and not one as had been previously thought. The findings from...
“One of the many Marx toys, have you all of them? part 3
This story supports a group reading of Karl Marx’s Capital Vol 1. #GoodMorningMarx #WeeklyMarx This covers chapters 14, 15, 16. Chapter 14 will provide further...
I will never trust republicans of any “type”.
I try to keep out of American politics as I have been an expat for over half my life [passed that milestone last month] and...
'Extinction denial' is the new thing for anti-science conspiracy theorists, warn Biologists.
"'Tis the time's plague when madmen lead the blind." William Shakespeare The evil of science deniers recently has been beyond the pale. Not content with killing...
Trump's Evangelicals and How to Woo Them
There’s a major story in the Sunday New York Times about Trump’s hold on evangelical Christians: ‘Christianity Will Have Power’ The headline is a quote...
Physicists find deforestation has 90% chance of causing irreparable catastrophic societal collapse.
Human consumption and climate change have sent humanity on a steep, dangerous, and deadly spiral spin toward a “catastrophic collapse” warn researchers. The dire warning is published...
Louie Gohmert thinks he may have gotten COVID from wearing a mask
By now you’ve heard the superschadenfreudeisticexpialidocious news that GOP Rep. Louie Gohmert has contracted COVID-19. A positive coronavirus diagnosis would be chastening for most people —...
Our climate destiny is grim after 25 top climate scientists rule out best case scenarios.
I keep vigil. I wish I knew how to get people to care, but we seem determined to kill ourselves and ignore all of the code...
Forests to go the way of coral reefs, unable to keep pace in a warming world.
“We have to be aware that climate change and biodiversity loss are stress factors for ecosystems, for humans, for animals, and for the microbiome. Our...
AntiCapitalist MeetUp: government deficit is a myth in the eyes of Modern Monetary Theory
Modern Monetary Theory (MMT) can (but not will) save the US economy. What with the White House Council of Economic Advisors now reduced to one...
Oceans water column is heating faster than predicted, screwing any efforts to slash CO2 and methane.
The oceans are really what tells you how fast the Earth is warming. Using the oceans, we see a continued, uninterrupted, and accelerating warming rate...
Oceans water column is heating faster than predicted, screwing any efforts to slash CO2.
The oceans are really what tells you how fast the Earth is warming. Using the oceans, we see a continued, uninterrupted, and accelerating warming rate...
We have upset the natural cycles. Oceans are the warmest on record; whole ecosystem collapse by 2030
Parts of the Atlantic, Pacific, and Indian Oceans all hit the record books for warmth last month, according to the U.S. National Centers for Environmental...
Humanity's footprint on the earth has lightened, nature rebounds but also takes turn for the worse.
We are getting a pretty good look at what a rapid transition to green energy would look like if we ever act to slow down...
Our obliteration of the natural world’s habitats create ideal conditions for pathogens to emerge.
Not since the plague, also known as the Black Death, arrived in Europe in the early 1300s has the human population been more vulnerable to...
Polar ice cap melt has increased six times faster than expected and tracks the worst-case scenario.
“I find it hard to exaggerate the peril, this is the new extinction and we are half way through it. We are in terrible, terrible...
Reef-Building corals show 'disaster traits' and make preparations for extinction.
A City University of New York presser reveals with a new study, published on March 3, 2020, in the journal Scientific Reports that stony corals,...
Reef-Building corals show 'disaster traits' and 'preparing' for extinction.
A City University of New York presser reveals with a new study, published on March 3, 2020, in the journal Scientific Reports that stony corals,...
J. Rubin Wants to Demolish the GOP [Edit w Message About Dumping on Rubin]
I used to dislike Rubin a lot when she was supporting Mitt Romney in 2012 and generally blasting Democrats and sniping at Barack Obama his...
The platypus, one of the world's Gondwana 'dinosaur' lineages, face extirpation from climate change.
The raging bushfires and intense drought that has plagued the Australian continent for several months have taken a heavy toll on wildlife, particularly in the...
Adani gets it's filthy hands on QLD's Galilee Basin; Insurers feast on climate refugee misery.
The moment of crisis has come. Sir David Attenborough Adani is a global company based in Ahmedabad, India. Adani and its CEO, Jeyakumar Janakaraj, have...
Half a billion animals incinerated in Australia
“The anger is real. The anger is justified. Because this disaster was all foreseen and predicted. For decades the link between a hotter, drier climate,...
For millions of years, the permanent wet remnants of Gondwana forest have never burned, until now.
"Friends. Shit is getting well-serious. I am at my place at the very top of the Bellinger Valley. Smoke has completely saturated everything for days...
A new fast-moving lethal disease has spread from the Florida Reef to the corals of the Caribbean
“All the diseases I’ve studied in the past could be considered like the flu. They come every year, seasonally, and sometimes there are worse outbreaks....
The greatest orgy in the world, with its blizzard of the particles of life, disrupted by warming.
Disruption is not a good thing for the web of life. It often leads to extinction. One of the Earths most spectacular events occurs just...
Weekly Recap: The Amazon Is Burning 🔥 🌎
photo: PDA’s Capitol Hill Climate Canvassers (left House, right Senate) In solidarity, Mike Hersh for Alan, Shayna, Deb, Kimberly, Bryan, Mike F., Dr. Bill, Dan,...
Once the hurricane passes, a 'deadly hidden weather hazard has the potential to affect millions'
Off the northwestern coast of Africa is a volcanic archipelago that is called Cape Verde (the islands are an independent nation). It is here where Cape...
Loss of reflective Sea Ice will advance global warming to a catastrophic 2C within 25 years.
“Because the Arctic’s role in regulating the global climate is a critical link in the chain of climate protection it should be the focus of...
Greenland melt makes the NY Times front page (I know), and mesmerizing tweets from the ground zero.
More images and videos out of Greenland. A lot of damage has been done to the ice and snow. xInto the Ice @LarsOstenfeld @lundbeckfonden https://t.co/rOLfmiunnG—...
Record high temperatures in Alaska have sent salmon into cardiac arrest.
Humans have been eating salmon in Alaska for 11,000 years. The cold-water fish is a protein powerhouse and Alaskan wild salmon is beyond delicious. In...
Wildfires sweep across the Arctic circle; seventy percent of soil carbon could be lost by 2100.
It’s time to tell the full truth. It’s time to pursue hospice, with as much honesty, integrity, and compassion as we can muster. It’s time...
Climate Emergency Requires Specific Solutions
In solidarity, Mike Hersh for Alan, Mike F, Janis, Dan, Shayna, Dr. Bill, Kimberly, Deb, and Bryan—your PDA National Team Demand Specific Climate Solutions Now!Sign...
Exxon conducted cutting-edge climate research decades ago and predicted the CO2 milestone of 2019.
If you do not pay attention, then how can you prepare yourself for what is to come? This critical moment in time is, our last...
🌏 Earth Day Actions! 🌎
photo: PDA Florida Rallies For “Windmills Not Weapons” With gratitude in my heart and the future in mind, Russell Greene for Alan, Deb, Mike F.,...
The GOP's “Age” Old Problem Has Gotten Worse.
Well, it’s not like they can say that they weren’t warned. The “autopsy report” following the 2012 election was both blunt, and honest. It said that...
Support Tomorrow’s Climate Strike Mobilization
Photo: Alexandria Villaseñor, a 13 year old climate justice activist and aCo-Founder/Co-Director U.S. Youth Climate Strike (youthclimatestrikeus.org) With gratitude in my heart and the future...
Bernie Crushed His Town Hall. Dems Combat Trump’s Emergency
In solidarity, Mike Fox for Alan, Dr. Bill, Dan, Janis, Deborah, Kimberly, Bryan, Mike H. and Shayna — your PDA National Team Battling Trump Via...
YUGE Medicare For All News
photo: National Nurses United Leading On Medicare For All By, Mike Hersh for Dr. Bill, Donna, Alan, Mike F., Janis, Deb, Dan, Kim, Bryan, and Shayna—your...
