18 November 2024

So the election happened…

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[Photo: Evolution … Devolution]

By Elizabeth Anker
Source:  By My Solitary Hearth

Editor's Note
I love the writing of Elizabeth Anker. She writes with a pull-no-punches honesty that keeps heart and a connection to the Earth. That is the case as she puts our fall into fascism in its appropriate place – as part of our broader system failures. And here is where the hard truth bites. It is ourselves to blame for the disaster.

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25 October 2023

Heads Up! Cat 5 Hurricane Struck Acapulco

[Photo: Damage from Hurricane Andrew, Homestead, Florida 1992. (From the FEMA photo library via wikipedia).]

By Rowan Wolf

Last night a storm off the coast of Acapulco, Mexico went from a tropical storm (Otis) to a Category 5 hurricane with winds of 165mph plus. This has almost certainly caused massive damage to a population of over 1 million people. There have been no reports out of Acapulco since the height of the storm which almost certainly has taken out most infrastructure including WiFi services. Some news forecasters are calling for sending ships with aid to the region immediately as this category of storm leaves catastrophic damage and loss of life. Bill Karrins referenced Hurricane Andrew (1992) as an example of the damage a Cat 5 hurricane creates.

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14 October 2023

Ignorant and Egoistic Leaders Are Destroying Mankind and the Living Earth

[Graphic: War & Climate by Osama Hajjaj Jordan ]

By Mahboob Khawaja, PhD

Editor's Note
I concur with Dr. Khawaja that humanity does not have time to continue on the destructive path we are on. While hatred and war have never been good for the Earth or Humanity, we have reached the end of our home’s ability to absorb our mistakes. We have pushed it to the edge of its natural resilience, So we need to grow up quickly and demand good leadership of our leaders, and frankly, demand the best of ourselves as well. This means not just making good choices, but making hard choices – especially in highly consumptive societies. 

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5 October 2023

The Truth May Hurt, But We Still Have To Face It

[Graphic: Book Banning, Bob Englehart, PoliticalCartoons.com.]

By Robert C. Koehler
Source:  CommonWonders

Editor's Note
If the attempts to silence “problematic” people and truth were really based in concern about (white, christian, assumedly “binary” and heterosexual) children, then we might have a point from which to begin a civil discussion. However, the selectivity of concern about the psychic sensitivity of certain children, while engaging in the callus disregard of other children, speaks volumes about what is truly happening. Namely, the (literal) carving out of a narrative that normalizes, rejoices and weaponizes the intersection of whiteness, christianity, heterosexuality, and binary gender system. And yes, I am deliberately NOT capitalizing christianity because what is being put forward is an affront to those in who profess to that religion outside of a White Nationalist ideology.

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17 May 2023

Senator Whitehouse: 275 of 315 Pages of GOP Debt Limit Bill Are Big Oil FavorsThis is so

By Sharon Zhang
Source:  Truthout

Editor's Note
This policy offering by the Republicans is so wrong that it is hard to know where to start. First, we are facing an existential crisis with global warming, but underneath that is another one that folks seem to have put on the shelf – peak fossil fuels. I know we are drilling like crazy, but most of the oil today is cruder than before we hit the bottom of the barrel, and this lower grade of crude is harder and more expensive to process. It is not a coincidence that fracking has become such a big deal, and natural gas is being pushed globally as a “clean” replacement. The reality is that we are literally burning through fossil fuels at a prodigious rate. According to ZME Science,

At the current rates of production, oil will run out in 53 years, natural gas in 54 years, and coal in 110 years, according to estimates from the 2015 World Energy Outlook study by the International Energy Agency. This forecast is predicated on the assumption that fossil fuels will constitute 59% of the total primary energy demand in 2040, even despite aggressive climate action policies.

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