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It is a really simple idea - things that can't go on the way they have been, usually don't. Sooner or later things that have no future just stop. We all know intellectually that we can't all live and consume like middle class Americans, that our kids are going to have a harder time because of our way of life, that Empires end and ecological disasters cause things to come to hard stops. We know it, but we don't KNOW it. This blog is about coming to KNOW, and figuring out where we go from here. I'm a science writer, teacher, environmental activist and small farmer who is trying to put her lifestyle where her mouth is, and live in a way with a future. When not writing books, serving on the board of the Association for the Study of Peak Oil and Gas, I run my farm with my husband, where we raise dairy goats, herbs, pastured poultry, heirloom vegetable plants, children and havoc.
Category: Climate Change
I suspect that Parenti is right that many of us will cease to object to these government services as they become more necessary - the only question being whether anyone will fully grasp the underlying philosophical issues that lead some to undermine the infrastructure that would enable a humane and just response.
Posted by Sharon Astyk at 8:01 AM • 8 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: peak oil
It is possible to make major changes in the use of fossil fuels on the peak oil issue in ways it is not possible to make those changes due to the politically charged nature of climate change.
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Category: Climate Change
It won't be news to most of my readership, but it is worth noting that the one thing that seems to be certain about climate change is that the 2007 IPCC report understated things. Sigh. Sharon...
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Category: Climate Change
The reason the tattoo goes on the ass is pretty clear - because while being able to tell your grandson you were a denier is a useful generational lesson, it is even more useful to be able to weed out sexual partners that way.
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Category: Climate Change
Kurt Cobb has a very funny essay that argues that plants and animals have joined with the climate denialists to bring about the better for them "World Without Us": The reversal of strategy began when domestic cats and dogs watched...
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Category: Climate Change
As part of their ongoing series on population, National Geographic has a fascinating, and typically visually brilliant article about how the Bangladeshi population is using strategies of adaptation to deal with climate change. This isn't the kind of adaptation most...
Posted by Sharon Astyk at 9:40 AM • 6 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Climate Change
It is, of course, increasingly unlikely that we will do this as a society in an organized and voluntary way. It is, of course, increasingly (in fact, the two likelihoods run precisely in parallel) likely that we will have no choice but to change our lives radically - involuntarily and painfully.
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Category: humor
6pm (Apocalypticism): While reading Winnie the Pooh to Asher and Isaiah, i explain that only Eeyore truly grasps the apocalyptic danger faced in the 100 Acre Woods by Christopher Robin going away to school. All the animals in the book actually died horribly and painfully in a terrible flaming Poohsticks accident. "Even Piglet?, Asher asks, shocked and frightened. "Especially Piglet," I say. "Piglet suffered the most of all."
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Category: Collapse
In every crisis there is the early victim, the person who responded to the invasion of Rome with a "What are those guys on horseback....arrrrrrrrr!" and the person who saw the story through from childhood to old age. In every crisis there are people insulated from most of the disaster, who are literally unable to imagine what the world looks like to those in the thick of it.
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Category: food crisis
We don't need to go beyond mainstream reports to know that the implication of climate change for food is potentially disastrous. If you aren't worried about the world food picture in the coming decades, frankly, you are taking drugs or dumb as a rock - there's absolutely no need to exaggerate.
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