From the publisher’s description: “One thousand years from now, a small religious community lives in what were once the fens of eastern England. They are perhaps the world’s last human survivors. Now they find themselves stalked by a force that…
What should we think when climate science finally publishes a model result based on old understandings, but which threatens the geopolitical narrative on global warming? Did powerful influence suppress what “big science” would study, or was it a cover-up by…
From a 1988 ‘debate’ in the EARTH FIRST! JOURNAL… INTRODUCTION by DOUG MEYER What does this quarter-century old debate from US environmental history tell us? Very simply, honest environmentalism would have played only one role: that of counter-cultural force to…
“And if what I fear indeed happens? If the next twenty years sees us pump ever more gas into the sky, and if it sees us take irrevocable steps into the genetically engineered future, what solace then? The only ones…
Klein, Naomi (2014-09-16). This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs. The Climate Simon & Schuster. Kindle Edition. “[B]ottom line[:] our economic system and our planetary system are now at war. Or, more accurately, our economy is at war with many forms…
Could a water-vapor runaway greenhouse effect happen here on Earth? The physics says no, the orbit is too far from the sun, but the physics can’t model clouds either. Score: physics 0, James Hansen 0. Here we are, three years…
“In order to maintain our way of living, we must tell lies to each other, and especially to ourselves.” — Derrick Jensen, Endgame: Volume 1: The Problem of Civilization Formed in the mid 1980s in order to dispel the…
Bonfire of the Vanities by Doug Meyer Quotations from “Inferno” by Charles Bowden “It is not simply that I do not have clean hands. It is worse: I refuse to wash them…” In case you hadn’t noticed, the…