There is no slowing down this juggernaut. We’re already off the cliff and they still have their pedal to the metal.
“The Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) simply blows out of the water anything else that’s been attempted in human history.”
“As currently planned, it will involve some 7,000 separate infrastructure or extractive industry projects scattered across 70-odd nations, with a total price-tag of $8 trillion. It’ll span half the planet — from Asia to Africa, Europe and the South Pacific. It’ll affect every facet of human endeavor, in one way or another.”
It will be business as usual on steroids. Covered previously on this blog below;
Buckle Up and Cut the Crap, we’re on the ‘Belt Road’ to Armageddon.
Chris the Natural Progressive and I discuss the Belt and Road Initiative and the role it will play in the ongoing collapse of the biosphere in the video below. I don’t believe much of this project will get very far before collapse unfolds. My main point being that capitalism and the dominant culture will carry on pedal to the metal, full steam ahead. In the August episode of Nature Bats Last we interviewed Arthur Keller about the coming collapse here; “Collapse the Only Realistic Scenario”>
Chris and I discussed the issue of Hospice. I’ve previously written about Hospice here;
More information about the rapid stratospheric warming and destabilisation I mentioned is embedded here;
The Roger Hallam from Extinction Rebellion interview we mentioned is embedded here
Think for a moment about what life is like for the people of The Bahamas, the trauma for those who survived, the ecological chaos of the pollutants in the flood waters poisoning wells, aquifers, rivers and the adjacent oceans and all the flooded flat lands. The other animals affected.
Their fate, is all our fate, seize the moment.
This is a fantastic new documentary showing the importance of the Arctic region, how wealthy it is, in terms of natural resources and why it always has and will continue to be fought over.
The “Polar Silk Road” seems to be a precursor the Chinese “Belt and Road Initiative”.
The warmongering and resource exploitation adds heat, aerosols to lower the albedo and additional CO2 into the region accelerating the irreversible melt.
As always, we’re doubling down on our predicament, the “Super Organism” of Industrial Civilization hand in hand with Capitalism, is grinding the living planet into dust.
I’m editing this video from Danny Haipong and Pepe Escobar into this blog on the fifth of November 2024.
Guy’s latest collaboration with Niall goes into detail about how coal consumption is growing, not slowing down, quite the opposite, it’s soaring, just like the global mean temperature!
There are some incredible images of the destroyed nuclear plants at Fukushima Daiichi showing the exposed spent fuel pools which are 20metres above ground making them incredibly vulnerable to earthquakes.
It’s pedal to the metal, full speed ahead!
Much of that energy is used to make plastic trinkets that end up in the landfills within days and weeks after being carted around the world!
But wait, there’s more, editing this video into the blog on March 16/2025.
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 
When will the people evacuate all the low-lying islands of the Caribbean? And the rest of the world? That time is coming. Really freaking soon if the latest science is anywhere near accurate. But of course it’s always been conservative, even the so-called ‘alarmists’ were too flipping conservative!!! Isn’t that a hoot?
Evac the coastlines worldwide, move out of the mountain/forests that are burning down, away from the expanding desert zones…where does SoCal, Arizona, Nevada move to? What are the Mormons going to do when Utah becomes an even worse desert (and they started fracking the Uinta Basin and TAR SANDS mining the freaking idiots!).
When am I going to get burned out of the Selkirks in one of the raging conflagrations we are seeing all over the Western US?? Homeless and go where?
We’ve lost the Arctic. The Jet Stream is ‘deformed’ to such a degree that…oh. Yeah. Well. More important is what’s on TV and what is the latest stupid shit being said by neoliberals like corporate war whore Biden and dementia-angry Trump and the rest of the US politicians that really need to SHUT UP AND LISTEN. Oh, and how many Facebook likes do I have today ’cause that is REALLY important?
Oh, I forgot. I never signed up for Zuckerberg’s information vacuum sites! My bad.
ThinkProgress and Joe Romm just shut down, but it looks like the ClimateProgress part is still up and running. He’s saying 14 months…article here:
https://thinkprogress.org/we-dont-have-12-years-to-save-the-climate-we-have-14-months-71401316dbc4/
Pretty scary shit. Or should I say it continues to become even scarier shit than the first climate book I read in… 1971? I was 17 years old. I forget the title. That one along with Rachel Carson’s Silent Spring my stepmom handed me even earlier to read pretty much boggled my mind! Then the the Limits of Growth came out and the ‘Genesis Strategy’ climate book in ’76 or so…and I was homeless at the time and still reading!
And I never had kids though I did raise three of somebody else’s.
Do something fun every day, Kevin and everybody else. This ride is getting a bit sticky, isn’t it, and it ain’t a-gonna get any better. Rather the opposite but that is something people reading this site are all aware of. I’m at ‘High Fire Danger’ according to the signs at the local fire station. And it rained last night and today but with no lightning. It has been in the 90sF. Really happy there weren’t any of the crazy bolts that blew through a couple weeks ago.
That storm’s numbers bumped up with a recount of the satellite video. I had 3,500 lightning strikes in 2 hours. It was insane.
Hospice. So today I adopted a roughly 7 year old black/white/gray curly-tailed Husky female with white eyebrows who has cataracts and can’t see so well. Needed a permanent home. She will hopefully spend the rest of her days here on these 8 acres. It’s the little things we do…we sure can’t affect change of the large ones at this point.
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Still enjoy checking in on your blog from time to time. Keep up the good work mate 🙂
Not much of a comment but more of a link to an article from a brilliant writer named Phil Rockstroh.
Cheers,
Erik
https://dissidentvoice.org/2019/09/a-careless-bully-at-the-kfc-at-the-end-of-empire/
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Yep curiousekrik, I agree with your assessment of his writing. He’s been published at http://www.counterpunch.org for a while now, too, which is where I started reading him. His latest posted there today is the same article, and I’m sure you’d agree that he absolutely nails this country. What can be done about it is feeling pretty moot at this point, though.
And this one I read yesterday on truthdig if you haven’t read it:
The U.S. Military Is Destroying the Environment
https://www.truthdig.com/articles/the-u-s-military-is-destroying-the-environment/#
How unpatriotic it is!
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Dystopia is now
https://china-environment-news.com/2021/10/15/how-chinese-infrastructure-projects-let-nature-be-nature/?fbclid=IwAR2G3rOuRdfoqiSwPvRok_uuWXn_KBQ2TJvpkw17amO4g6kM9UR4tT9XV9o
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Let nature be nature? Really? Just the freaking noise produced by our technology damages nature…so nature gets to be down below the technology thereby reducing living beings into just pretty pictures out the window that we have no connection to even more.
Wow.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mp_rUmLthXg
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More brilliance from Pepe Escobar
Pepe Escobar: Trump Admits MASSIVE Defeat to Putin & China, BRICS War Begins NOW
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I’m completely conflicted on my position on China.
I worked in Electrical Engineering for decades so by default I have enormous respect for China in my professional field, when I was a child/adolescent they were still having famines in China and today everyone is fed.
No one was more surprised than myself and my friend and colleague Professor Paul Ehrlich that they achieved that.
My conflict is that I’m professionally impressed with the “Belt and Road Initiative”, but I know it will put the climate and overshoot crisis on steroids.
Catch 22, everywhere I look.
Wang Wen: China is Building a New World Order
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It’s an amazing juggernaut!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0zfUSoWC4Eg
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Pedal to the metal, full speed ahead.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x2KfUMD4lQc
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To confirm my conclusions. The Imperialists have a new target. Supply chains and energy will dominate our lives until the implosion.
The dynamics around the straits of Malaca are paralleled in the Straits of Hermus.
Mind bendingly fascinating times!
Thailand’s $28 Billion Mega Canal | Watch
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Pepe’s latest trip to China reflects the enormity of the Belt and Road Initiative.
Pepe Escobar: Israel BLOWS UP Trump’s Peace Deal, China NUKES US Economy | Mark Sleboda
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Pepe Escobar sure nails the idiocy, doesn’t he?
Our own version of Belt & Road continues on the West Coast of Washington State. It’s the same story in a different way, and it’s PROGRESS with a capital P because that’s what matters the most. That and a lot of profit and power!!
And to top off ours is that all our infrastructure is on tidal flats 100 miles east of the Cascadia Faultline that WILL be send a 40 meter tsunami within 20 minutes of the 9.0+ megathrust quake that will go miles inland. It’s going to make Japan’s Tohuku Quake of 2011 look tame by comparison.
And the politicians and business leaders and fossil fuel barons KNOW THIS. because their scientists are telling them so. Just like the China scientists know what is going to come from all the infrastructure they’re building.
And nobody cares. It’s always about money and power. So they will build even more shit on sea level. It’s insanity.
https://popularresistance.org/tacoma-organizations-protest-lng-plant/
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The Cascadia Fault is due to break at least as strongly as the Tohuku Quake in Japan of 2011. And since the fault is actually connected up here to the San Andreas all that way down in California (recently discovery), that one could break also from the force.
The amount of damage and destruction is….unimaginable even after seeing the videos of 2011 because the US West Coast is a hundred years behind Nippon in the building codes.
I will feel the quake here on the other side of the state is what I read. There’s a book out I read a few years ago. Full Rip 9.0. It details it all pretty well. When it happens, not if, it will change the face of the US West Coast as thoroughly as the Belt & Road is doing in Asia..
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The super organism of industrial civilization is insatiable.
When the World is Already Gone – by Elisabeth Robson
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A masterpiece on the implications of the Belt and Road initiative and its attendant ecological carnage!
A Massive, Chinese-Backed Port in Peru Could Push the Amazon Rainforest Over the Edge – Inside Climate News
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