Changing course Fundamental change is required to avoid this ghastly future. Specifically, we and many others suggest: abolishing the goal of perpetual economic growth revealing the true cost of products and activities by forcing those who damage the environment to pay for its restoration, such as through carbon pricing rapidly eliminating fossil fuels regulating markets […]
From the Lab to the Field, Agriculture Seeks to Adapt to a Warming World
by Jim Robbins It may be coming to a bakery near you: Bread made from wheat that has had its photosynthetic mechanism refashioned to help it flourish on a warmer planet. Despite the fact a number of researchers — some funded by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation — are scrambling to create this new […]
What Extremely Muscular Horses Teach Us About Climate Change and the US Energy System
The first thing you should know about the history of energy in the United States is that, about 150 years ago, the horses got absolutely ripped. “In the mid-19th century, you have a massive expansion of the horse body. They become 50 percent more powerful,” Robert Suits, a historian at the University of Chicago, told […]
From Pornography to Agriculture: Challenging Hierarchy
by Robert Jensen We live in a world in which people and other living things are broken by routine exploitation and violence. Entire societies seem broken beyond repair. Life itself seems to be in danger of breaking forever. Acknowledging this is difficult not only because of the depth of the pain in a broken world […]
Carbon dioxide removal sucks
Carbon dioxide removal (CDR) systems put more greenhouse gases into the air than they take out. Carbon dioxide removal (CDR) systems – touted as techno-fixes for global warming – usually put more greenhouse gases into the air than they take out, a recent study has confirmed. Carbon capture and storage (CCS), which grabs carbon dioxide […]