We are caught in a monkey trap and there is no way out. All the rest is spin. Brace for impact. A really thought-provoking article from Deep Green Resistance world. Starts as follows:
“Don’t talk to me about sustainability. You want to question my lifestyle, my impact, my ecological footprint? There is a monster standing over us, with a footprint so large it can trample a whole planet underfoot, without noticing or caring. This monster is Industrial Civilization. I refuse to sustain the monster. If the Earth is to live, the monster must die. This is a declaration of war.”
“What is it we are trying to sustain? A living planet, or industrial civilization? Because we can’t have both.”
“Somewhere along the way the environmental movement – based on a desire to protect the Earth, was largely eaten by the sustainability movement – based on a desire to maintain our comfortable lifestyles. When did this happen, and why? And how is it possible that no-one noticed? This is a fundamental shift in values, to go from compassion for all living beings and the land, to a selfish wish to feel good about our inherently destructive way of life.”
“The sustainability movement says that our capacity to endure is the responsibility of individuals, who must make lifestyle choices within the existing structures of civilization. To achieve a truly sustainable culture by this means is impossible. Industrial infrastructure is incompatible with a living planet. If life on Earth is to survive, the global political and economic structures need to be dismantled.”
Article continues here: Sustainability is destroying the Earth.
Professor Tim Garrett’s work on “Industrial Civilisation is a Heat Machine” is a must read, check out his website above.
Simon Michaux slaying some green myths!
I'm an anti-imperialist, environmental activist and blue ocean sailor, who is passionate about the earth and all it's inhabitants without favour. Brace for imminent impact as we bare witness to the non-linear unraveling of the biosphere and habitability disappearing for most if not all complex life on the only habitable planet we know of. To quote President Niinistö in North Russia: ‘If We Lose the Arctic, We Lose the World’. Folks we have lost the Arctic.
Kevin Hester 
Catch 22
If the hydrogen myth ever takes off, it will make our predicament worse!
There is no magic bullet!
https://jalopnik.com/new-hydrogen-research-reminds-us-humanity-just-cant-win-1850303466?fbclid=IwAR3hxmv9dF_t66CNSwibCA3AwNtSYlqKCXYv1RQgEjtvk5x2m9ZFVChDydE
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“Cobalt Red”: Smartphones & Electric Cars Rely on Toxic Mineral Mined in Congo by Children
https://www.democracynow.org/2023/7/13/cobalt_red_kara?fbclid=IwAR1cggMVsu-ivZ3TynAmnxkSGAoP8_G8PQ30HoJ1eLvlHsEbuqaMzN9EcFU
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“Presuming there will be a living ecosystem to inhabit”
Presumption is the mother of all fuckups.
That old, we’ll survive without habitat, canard.
With the 10C that even Dr James E Hansen admits is baked in there won’t be an unburnt tree on this planet.
https://thehonestsorcerer.medium.com/stop-using-the-word-sustainability-for-god-s-sake-21ef629ef5e5
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The cold, bitter truth about windmill blades.
Spoiler alert, it’s not renewable nor compostable 🙂
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2020-02-05/wind-turbine-blades-can-t-be-recycled-so-they-re-piling-up-in-landfills
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“Renewable energy is essentially a fossil fuel extender”, Laser guided by Art’, there’s no avoiding “Jevon’s Paradox.
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Jevons Paradox:
https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fenrg.2018.00026/full
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What an absolutely laser guided article, incredibly ‘on point’, however inconvenient the measured conclusions may be.
This paragraph resonated with my philosophy of interdependence between All Species.
“So, about 99% of the atoms in our bodies come from air and water, often processed by other lifeforms before entering our mouths. That’s a very neat trick!”
Spectacular observation.
Guess what team, without those microbes, single cell organisms and everyone above in the web of life, we cease to exist, we’re all codependents.
It isn’t rocket science, it’s biology.
It’s refreshing not to be alone in pointing out what is ultimately the “Bleedingly Obvious”.
https://www.resilience.org/stories/2024-02-21/inexhaustible-flows/?fbclid=IwAR0ScZ_yRvSBvHknRug4UJUp4V_xxaSYtenfMZuvWtBw18CEDMIMh7H_E8A
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Here’s another on the sustainability of our species using modern tech. Think it will work?
Considering intentional stratospheric dehydration for climate benefits
https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.adk0593
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Grasping at the tech straws is what I’m thinking. Is this a ‘hail mary’ kind of attempt?
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I find this pitiful. Do these kids understand what is happening? This little girl Some do maybe, somewhat, but they can’t really grasp the implications facing us all…but they are young enough to have not become as frightened about what Greta Thunberg & her cohorts have mentally grasped.
Hopium. When the only thing that is ‘changing’ is how much more destruction our species is causing, how much of an increase in GHGs are being spewed into the atmosphere daily from the day before. It isn’t going down. The older kids, when they hit their teens…how many are going to choose ‘no kids’ due to the knowledge they absorb?
Wouldn’t blame them a bit for that choice because it’s one I made in the early 70s…
Forecast 2050: ‘Weather Kids’ Sound The Alarm
https://weather.com/news/climate/video/forecast-2050-weather-kids-sound-the-alarm
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The Rising Chorus of Renewable Energy Skeptics
The green techno-dream is so vastly destructive, they say, ‘We have to come up with a different plan.’
https://thetyee.ca/Analysis/2023/04/07/Rising-Chorus-Renewable-Energy-Skeptics/
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More about no sustainability:
Many parts of the world soon uninhabitable if we don’t act on climate crisis faster | DW News
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Here is what’s happening in Mexico. El Presidente is definitely in the denial stage…
Major cities in Mexico running out of water as extreme heat continues: 6 minutes
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Tim Garrett’s latest via Rachel Donald
The Thermodynamics of Degrowth | Tim Garrett (youtube.com)
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Art’s latest analysis of the non-renewables sector:
https://www.artberman.com/blog/its-too-late-for-renewables/
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Episode 5 – Dr Mike Joy
Veteran environmentalist separates fact from fiction on the climate change issue and offers his own solutions
Episode 5 – Dr Mike Joy – Bryan Bruce Investigates (substack.com)
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Energy Usage, Part 2: The Growth of Renewables and the Stubborn Persistence of Fossil Fuels:
Energy Usage, Part 2: The Growth of Renewables and the Stubborn Persistence of Fossil Fuels
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How the world gave up on 1.5 degrees A decade after the Paris
Agreement, Andreas Malm and Wim Carton trace how we’ve kept on with business as usual.
https://grist.org/economics/how-the-world-gave-up-on-1-5-degrees-overshoot/
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Climate Scientists Can’t Explain These ‘Hotspots’ Appearing Around the World
The global average temperature is rising, but some regions are experiencing extreme heatwaves way beyond what models predicted—and scientists don’t know why.
https://gizmodo.com/climate-scientists-cant-explain-these-hotspots-appearing-around-the-world-2000530655
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There’s a lot we don’t know that is going to catch up to us eventually is what I’m thinking…
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What an insane experiment!
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Here’s another that is a bit strange to the scientists:
Why has it been even hotter than expected recently? Research points to diminishing cloud cover
Global temperatures in the last two years have been higher than scientists anticipated. That may be because cloud cover has decreased, a study suggests.
https://www.nbcnews.com/science/climate-change/why-hot-high-temperatures-cloud-cover-decreased-rcna182937
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The first 6 minutes tells of this country’s direction quite tellingly, and is just awful…but I can’t find any argument against what he says.
It continues to become ever-more obvious that the comedy movie Idiocracy was actually a documentary.
The End of Organized Humanity Noam Chomsky
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VY9PZvK6CZs
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And this blue jewel, the ‘waterworld’ of this solar system, is being turned into a desert hellhole:
Drylands now make up 40% of land on Earth, excluding Antarctica, study says
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2024/dec/09/drylands-now-make-up-40-of-land-on-earth-excluding-antarctica-study-says
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The End of Organized Humanity Noam Choms
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Brilliant dude, thx
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Everyone wants to find a magic bullet to make the unsustainable, sustainable.
The pitiful aspect for me is that many of the large NGO’s are still vomiting up that nonsense.
They also ignore Jevon’s paradox.
https://www.planetcritical.com/p/techno-optimism-wont-save-the-day/comments
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An excellent read on this uncomfortable truth.
How “Green” Wind and Solar Could Trash the Planet
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Bill knocks it out of the park with his latest analysis of current fantasies.
What energy transition? – Rees, William E.
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Lyle slays the myth of a silver bullet in energy production.
Industrial civilisation is a heat and CO2 production machine, no matter how it’s powered.
Wind Power: The Most Environmentally Destructive Form of Energy?
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The devil is always in the detail.
(6) The “Baseload” Solar Beatdown
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More uncomfortable home truths from Gail on the nonsense of electrifying us out of our predicament.
Worrying indications in recently updated world energy dataOur Finite World
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More of the problem is never the solution. Galina eruditely explains how climate change and ‘environmentalism’ more generally, is being weaponised for a hypergrowth of capitalist/colonialist exploitation under the doomed and deluded green banner of making the unsustainable, sustainable.
“…shaped by geopolitical ambitions, market propaganda, and the insatiable hunger for capital accumulation. “Every so-called efficiency,” she warned, “creates new demand.” Whether it’s the explosion of AI data centres requiring uranium-powered nuclear plants, or the lithium boom destroying Indigenous lands in Nevada and Argentina, new technologies are not reducing extractive pressure, they’re intensifying it.”
Reclaiming Energy, Reimagining Power:Building Energy Futures from Below – Radical Ecological Democracy
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Another excellent critique of the insanity of this culture.
Today’s Contemplation: Collapse Cometh CCIX
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Another “Home run” from George, bravely facing Casandra’s reality rather than Pandora’s delusions!
Replacement Economics: The Scam That Saved Capitalism
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George on point, as always:
(2) Comments – Technophilia: The Mental Illness Behind Civilisational Collapse
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Steve and our team at Peak Oil slaughtering the sacred cow delusion of the miss-named ‘Renewables’, as Nate Hagans says they are Rebuildable and to do that you need liquid hydrocarbons, most notably diesel.
Today’s Contemplation: Collapse Cometh CCXIV–
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Simon literally belts the fantasy out of the park.
🔴 KEY INTEL: Economic COLLAPSE Being PLANNED RIGHT NOW! (they want your wealth) | Simon Michaux
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From Medium:
Hold the Sixth Extinction — For NowA new study finds biodiversity loss is slowing, but not enough to celebrate yet.
https://medium.com/the-environment/hold-the-sixth-extinction-for-now-ab29aab8c9fc
Amid the doom and gloom we’ve been hearing about the biodiversity crisis, a study came out last week with good news: the loss of species seems to be slowing down globally.
According to the study results, extinction rates over the past 500 years peaked around 100 years ago for all assessed animal and plant species and have generally declined since then.
Don’t get me (or the study authors) wrong: the biodiversity crisis is serious and needs to be addressed immediately and assertively with effective conservation actions to prevent the extinction of more species. While just over 900 species have gone extinct since 1500, nearly 50,000 species are currently believed to be threatened with extinction.
But it does seem that conservation actions taken over the past few decades — from the U.S. Clean Water Act of 1972 and the Endangered Species Act of 1973 to CITES, the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora, and other international conservation interventions — may be paying off, slowing the rate at which threatened species are going extinct.
The study by Kristen Saban and John Wiens of the University of Arizona appeared… Paywall. I have not looked up the study at UofA.
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But with ‘it’s all a leftie liberal Socialist hoax’ DJT in charge, who has already cancelled the Clean Water Act of 1972 and the Endangered Species Act of 1973 AND a host of other environmental and climate regulations, this ‘hiccup’ of hopium news ain’t gonna last. I mean, hell, he wants to re-open all the coal mines and start burning more coal!! WTF??
This fucking moron has ordered the US to start testing nuclear weapons again. Since he thinks it’s so safe, he should open up a test range in Floridiotland upwind of his castle Mar-a-Lago. Maybe the fallout will cure his psychopath and fix his growing Dementia?? One can only hope!
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