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“Perfect Conditions” for Collapse

In the September episode of Nature Bats Last host Kevin Hester interviewed author Vanessa Blakeslee the show is embedded here; Many thanks to Patrick Farnsworth from “Last Born in the Wilderness” for allowing us to use his short interview with

Posted in Abrupt Climate Change, Collapse, Near Term Human Extinction--NTHE, Podcasts

The Climate and Extinction Crises on Black Bear News

Kevin Hester and Kevin Sandbloom from Black Bear News discuss the unraveling of the biosphere, the convergence of ecological collapse, the re-rise of fascism and the attendant risks as the planets ecology and social order both stumble toward collapse. “Because

Posted in Abrupt Climate Change, Collapse, Interviews, Near Term Human Extinction--NTHE

Buckle Up and Cut the Crap, we’re on the ‘Belt Road’ to Armageddon.

“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

Posted in Abrupt Climate Change, Catastrophe, Collapse, Energy Industry, Rapid Climate Change

Abrupt Climate Change and Extinction ‘Jenga’. The very last ‘game’ on Earth.

Since the dawn of Industrial Civilisation we have been involved in a giant game of Jenga and the pieces to the puzzle are our fellow earthlings. One by one we have been removing them from the intricate fabric of the

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Are Black Swan events in the Climate Crisis Imminent?

Tragically for the biosphere and the continuation of complex life on this planet the “Precautionary Principle’ has been cast to the winds as we plunge headlong, full speed ahead into the climate / extinction crisis, not only by failing to

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Connecting the dots on the unfolding 6th Great Extinction

Todays guest on  Nature Bats Last is evolutionary biologist Professor Guy McPherson former host of the show. This latest episode is embedded here, please bare with the brief opening audio hiccups! Professor McPherson and I discussed the tragic die off of

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Dr Andrew Glikson interview on Nature Bats Last.

Todays episode is embedded here: Dr Andrew Glikson is an Earth and Paleo-Climate scientist and Visiting Fellow at the School of Archaeology and Anthropology at the Australian National University and author of the recent book entitled “The Plutocene: Blueprints for

Posted in Abrupt Climate Change, Collapse, Habitat, Podcasts

At the Edge of Extinction only Insanity and Delusion Remains.

I live on a small island in the Hauraki Gulf of Aotearoa, New Zealand. The country was stolen from the indigenous Maori at the point of a blood soaked bayonet on a gun being held by British Imperialists. The permanent

Posted in Abrupt Climate Change, Collapse, George Monbiot, Near Term Human Extinction--NTHE

We Are So Fucked and Sooner Than Previously Thought!

In my recent interview with the amazing Professor Paul Ehrlich titled, Nature Bats Last on PRN.FM featuring Professor Paul Ehrlich we discussed climate scientists dishonesty/ reticence  in understating the severity of the climate crisis. I’ve toured Aotearoa New Zealand twice

Posted in Abrupt Climate Change, Collapse, Rapid Climate Change

Nature Bats Last on PRN.FM featuring Professor Paul Ehrlich

Todays guest on Nature Bats Last on PRN.FM was Professor Paul Ehrlich, author of over 30 books and numerous peer reviewed science papers. Kevin Hester and Professor Ehrlich discuss the unfolding collapse, the nuclear implications of climate change, the Trump

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Kevin Hester

Kevin Hester is currently living on Rakino Island, a small island in the Hauraki Gulf near Auckland, New Zealand, monitoring the unravelling of the biosphere and volunteering at the Rakino Island Nursery is currently developing a proposal to create a marine reserve near by. The Island has no grid tied electricity or reticulated water.  I catch my own water from the roof and generate my electricity from the ample solar radiation on the island.

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