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We grow food in dirt, devoid of life
“The difference between soil and dirt,” explains Rob Avis on countercurrents.org, is that “soil is alive. Dirt is dead. A single teaspoon of soil can contain billions of microscopic bacteria, fungi, protozoa and nematodes. A handful of the same soil will contain numerous earthworms, arthropods, and other visible crawling creatures. . . . These billions [...]
The planet isn’t goin’ anywhere. We are.
For your amusement, here is George Carlin, at his best, making fun of those who strive to save the planet, when it is their own species whose demise is inevitable. Well, that last bit isn’t so humorous.
Time to curb population growth running out
“Earth’s population is approaching seven billion at the same time that resource limits and environmental degradation are becoming more apparent every day,” says Gary Peters on The Oil Drum. “Rich nations have long assured poor nations that they, too, would one day be rich and that their rates of population growth would decline, but it [...]
Garbage Planet
Garbage. On average, each of us deposits over four pounds of garbage every day in waste baskets around the house. That’s about 30 pounds of garbage per person, per week. If we didn’t take the trash out, it would soon fill up our houses and apartments. If garbage trucks didn’t haul it away, it would [...]
Paradise LOST
It’s 2002, and JJ is pitching his concept of a TV show called “PARADISE LOST” to Lloyd, a big shot at ABC. JJ: So this NASA spaceship takes off to colonize Mars, but it flies through some sort of magnetic field and gets lost and crashes onto a planet a lot like Earth. LLOYD: Lost [...]
Slum nation
My dystopian posts on truthalyzer.com appear optimistic compared to James Howard Kunstler’s weekly Clusterfuck Nation, as this excerpt illustrates: “It’s sad to be a citizen of a nation that can’t do anything right. . . . We live in places so extreme in ugliness, squalor, and dysfunction that just going to the store leaves a [...]
Earth becoming a smoking, glowing, oily mess
“We . . . are turning our planet into a smoking, glowing, oily mess . . . plundering Mother Earth of her treasures . . . refusing to recognize the growing evidence that our reliance on oil, coal and nuclear threatens our health, our security, our economy, our nation and the world,” said Rep. Dennis [...]
Signs of collapse?
“The next stage that’s coming is political collapse which I believe will be triggered here when the nation realizes how bad the Deepwater Horizon leak really is and how it has been misled. . . . No more deepwater drilling and oil prices will spike for sure. — Or, it might come when Freddie and [...]
Gulf oil spill a reminder of our limits
“There is only one meaningful response to the horrific oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico and that is for America to stop messing around when it comes to designing its energy and environmental future. The only meaningful response to this man-made disaster is a man-made energy bill that would finally put in place an [...]
Earth Day(dreaming)
This 40th annual Earth Day — April 22, 2010 — follows last month’s 4th annual Earth Hour and 12th annual World Water Day. Forgive me, but this blitz of environmental days is leaving me dazed. It’s not that I don’t concur with Earth Day’s high-minded objective “to advance climate policy, energy efficiency, renewable energy and [...]
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