Tag Archives: environment
The End of Eden
James Lovelock talks to The Washington Post about our prospects. “It’s going too fast,” he says softly. “We will burn.” Why is that? “Our global furnace is out of control. By 2020, 2025, you will be able to sail a … more…
Tanzanian quake exposes huge gaping fissure in news coverage
Massive tectonic forces have shifted the IRIS seismic monitor again. It’s now here, and that’s at least the second shift in the four years since I first blogged it. Must be a fault line around there somewhere. I did have … more…
The Oil We Eat
Lengthy but worthwhile history of global food production, and how it explains almost everything else in the human world. Scientists have a name for the total amount of plant mass created by Earth in a given year, the total budget … more…
Kevin Kelly — The Big Here
…your home is a cell in an organism called a planet. All these levels interconnect. What do you know about the dynamics of this larger system around you? (more) There follows a thirty-point quiz, which examines your knowledge of your … more…
Quaking
While speculation is rife that tonight’s full moon may trigger another massive earthquake in California, there has been another tremor this weekend in Manchester. As if we didn’t have enough weird portents to deal with…
Wolverhampton earthquake again; falconry, homeless blogging
Chris C. of The Seventh Circle has followed up on my complaint about the non-appearance of a big red circle over the UK at the IRIS Seismic Monitor site. The circle is there now, but since it’s a few days … more…
Bush’s Forest Fire Plan: Log It All
Bush’s Forest Fire Plan: Log It All A long-ish article by Jeffrey St. Clair on the history of forestry maintenance in the Western US, which underlines the total cynicism of the WMPC‘s recently announced “solution” to the forest fire “problem”… … more…
Bush eases US logging restrictions
Bush eases US logging restrictions “its a fine balance between people expressing themselves and preventing US citizens from enacting common sense” Latest bit of ‘corporate criminal, who me?’ from the WMPC: in an effort to control the forest fires that … more…
IRIS Seismic Monitor
I’m pretty certain that this was blogged here and there quite a while ago, because that was how I first came across it, at least eighteen months ago, but picking up on speculation about something weird happening in the deep … more…