EU Farmers’ Protests, Food Security, and the Green New Deal Big Lie by Omission About Livelihoods
How the EU farmers’ protests illustrate the obstacles to climate change containment policies. And Green hopium has made matters worse.
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Cancer in the Corn Belt Sparks Actions to Fight Farm Fertilizer Nitrate Contamination
Long-standing concerns about fertilizer runoff leading to toxic nitrates in water supplies look to be getting more traction.
Read more...‘Rooftop Solar Is the Future, but It’s Also a Scam’
The solar panel business illustrate how corporations will always find the least acceptable solution to any problem, as they have with AI
Read more...Further Discussion of Boeing’s Slow Motion Liquidation: Rational Given Probable Airline Industry Shrinkage?
More on Boeing as a symbol of industrial decline, here due to broader environmental and coming energy cost pressures.
Read more...Electric Vehicles Use Half the Energy of Gas-Powered Vehicles
An analysis of electric vehicles’ explains why they are much more efficient. But this take seems to omit some key variables.
Read more...AI Boom Could Slow U.S. Clean Grid Ambitions
AI is projected to consume lots of power. And no one seems to care much that that’s going to increase climate change damage.
Read more...Our Coming Insecure Energy Future: The Network Conundrum
A key issue for the vaunted energy transition seems not to have gotten the attention it warrants. Reader input appreciated!
Read more...Will Climate Engineering Really Save Us? Do Me a Favour
Tech-utopian hero worship, here in the form of geo-engineering hopium, is one of the social scourges of our time.
Read more...The Law Firm Helping Big Oil Weaponize the First Amendment
Gibson Dunn is “playing both sides” of free speech, using it to defend Big Oil and silence the industry’s critics.
Read more...Doctors Raise Alarm on Dropping Global Fertility Rate, Environmental Pollutants Cited
A new paper on dropping fertility rates urges policies to increase them, ignoring resource constraints and environment degradation.
Read more...Fixing the Panama Canal
The impact of the reduction in Panama Canal capacity illustrates choices we will have to make. Some are more pro-survival than others
Read more...Monsanto’s ‘Cancer Index’, an Alleged Conspiracy, and New PCB-Related Complaints
Monsanto is targeted for cancer liability via an alleged collusion with GE over indemnification for PCBs, including the use of a cancer index
Read more...Smoke and Mirrors in Serbia?
Protests since December elections have the government and some observers claiming the West is attempting another color revolution, but behind the scenes Serbian elites and the West enjoy an increasingly intertwined and beneficial relationship
Read more...Unhappy New Year: How Austerity is Making a Comeback in Berlin and Brussels
How EU states are still trapped in their self-devised austerity hairshirt.
Read more...Permafrost, Methane and Climate Change
Yet another climate change accelerant not getting remotely the attention warranted: permafrost melt.
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