Deep Concerns, Profound Illusions
In this initial blog post I would like to briefly explain this website’s rationale and to identify the topics I will address in the future. Based on the disturbing environmental events of recent years,...
View ArticleThe Perilous Deceit behind Emission Targets
In the months leading up to the UN climate change conference in Paris this December there will likely be increasing chatter about emission targets – the percentage decrease in greenhouse gas (GHG)...
View ArticleLiberate Thinkers to Salvage the Biosphere
Until recently I firmly believed that bottom-up action could resolve the ecological crisis. It was therefore a shock when I realized that this view had become untenable. It is now clear to me that...
View ArticleDissenting Progressives: Ditch Suzuki and Klein!
A few years ago I listened to an interview with an insightful California activist named Saba Malik. As the mother of young children she was profoundly troubled by the escalating ecological crisis. She...
View ArticleThe Economics of Food Waste
The Economics of Needs and Limits (ENL) is an analytical framework that is intended to guide a contractionary, post-capitalist economy. It is based on the ethical principle that all human beings,...
View ArticleThe Young have been FORSAKEN
As a young teen in the early 1960s I felt extreme anxiety as the Cold War raged between the United States and the Soviet Union. In addition to nightmares about the world being blown apart by nuclear...
View ArticleDavid Suzuki’s Ecocidal Role
This post is the second in a series of three that explores how the old have abandoned the young to a grim ecological fate, and how the young might respond in order to salvage both their future and that...
View ArticleThe Youth Ecological Revolt
This is the last in a series of three posts that explore the plight of the young with respect to the ecological crisis. In my first post I characterized the crisis as overshoot, which refers to the...
View ArticleThe Essence of Life
What is life? This question that has been posed numerous times since Charles Darwin admitted his puzzlement in The Origin of Species (1859). Amazingly, the intervening years have brought scientists no...
View ArticleThe Youth Ecological Revolt: A Summary
In late 2015 I posted three articles about the youth ecological revolt. This is a proposed movement to pressure the old and the powerful to act decisively on the ecological crisis. The three articles...
View ArticleBook Review: Climate Change, Capitalism, and Corporations
Climate Change, Capitalism, and Corporations: Processes of Creative Self-Destruction. Christopher Wright and Daniel Nyberg (2015). Christopher Wright and Daniel Nyberg are business-oriented academics...
View ArticleThe “Decoupling” Travesty
The economic growth fanatics have reached a new low in rationality and integrity. Recently the International Energy Agency (IEA) announced that, despite 3% global economic growth, CO2 emissions from...
View Article“The Truth Doesn’t Matter”
Celia Farber is an independent American journalist who has written some ground-breaking articles on HIV/AIDS. After she was attacked in scurrilous fashion for her incisive reporting, she said in...
View ArticleMy Strategy for Ecological Survival
The most remarkable fact about the ecological crisis is that, even at this perilously late hour, no-one has devised a strategy to seriously address it. On second thought, the situation is far worse...
View ArticleBook in Progress
Over the next year or so I will post few, if any, updates to this website while I write my third book on the ecological crisis. Continue reading → The post Book in Progress appeared first on No More...
View ArticleThe Point Of No Return
When a team is behind in a basketball game, time becomes a serious factor several minutes before the final buzzer. What typically happens is that the team's normal style of play gives way to an...
View ArticleGeoengineering: the Facts
In this post I outline the key facts about geoengineering. The arguments for and against this approach to the environmental emergencies will be discussed next time. Continue reading → The post...
View ArticleGeoengineering: the Arguments
In my last post I addressed the key facts about geoengineering. Here I examine the arguments for and against this contentious approach. Because emissions mitigation is often cited as an alternative...
View ArticleThe True Nature of the Ecological Crisis
In my last seven posts, starting with Nature's Mortal Wound, I examined various aspects of the ecological crisis. My main aim was to dispel the myths and misconceptions that frequently muddle our...
View ArticleA Rational Response to the Ecological Crisis
As previously stated, the ecological crisis is the result of humankind's uncontrolled economic expansion since the Industrial Revolution. This led to overshoot in the 1950s as numerous environmental...
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