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- Why fusion power is Forever Away
- Climate Change dominates news coverage at expense of other existential planetary boundaries
- Excerpt from “The Geopolitics of Resource Wars”
Author Archives: energyskeptic
John Hemington: My Views on the Human Condition – A Summary
Email Forwarded from Charles A. Hall, Sep 7, 2010 A number of my correspondents have expressed the opinion that my pessimistic views of our economic, political and social future are, shall we say, a bit on the extreme side. For … Continue reading
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Michael J. Benton, paleontologist: Runaway Greenhouse
Benton, M.J. Presidential Address 2007: The end-Permian mass extinction events on land in Russia. Proceedings of the Geologists’ Association Volume 119, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 119-136 Conclusion: If the runaway greenhouse model is correct and explains perhaps the biggest crisis … Continue reading
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Stephen Meyer: The Extinction Crisis is Over. We Lost.
Stephen M. Meyer. Apr/May 2004. End of the Wild. The extinction crisis is over. We lost. Boston Review. Stephen M. Meyer is a professor of political science at MIT and the director of the MIT Project on Environmental Politics and … Continue reading
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James Lovelock: We Can’t Save the Planet, it’s Too Late
30 Mar 2010. Lovelock: ‘We can’t save the planet’. Professor James Lovelock, the scientist who developed Gaia theory, has said it is too late to try and save the planet. BBC Radio. Below is a summary, the full audio interview … Continue reading
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Greg Craven: What’s the Worst that Could Happen?
Greg Craven. 15 Dec 2010. What’s the Worst That Could Happen? A Veteran of the Climate Change Culture Wars Explains Why America Isn’t Listening and What To Do About It. American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting. Nothing we’ve done has worked. … Continue reading
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Martin Rees, cosmologist: Will the Human Race Survive the 21st Century?
In his book “Our final century: Will the Human Race Survive the Twenty-first Century?: Martin Rees gives us at 50/50 chance of making it to 2100. He thinks we’ve been lucky to survive even the past 50 years. Some of … Continue reading
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Prince Charles warns of ‘sixth extinction event’
Louise Gray. 8 Sep 2011. Prince Charles warns of ‘sixth extinction event’. Mankind faces extinction, the Prince of Wales has warned, unless humans transform our lifestyles to stop mass consumption, run away climate change and destruction of wildlife. The Telegraph. … Continue reading
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Acid Oceans: how sea life is affected
April 30, 2014 Ocean acidity is dissolving shells of tiny snails off U.S. West Coast Biologists have found the first evidence that acidity of continental shelf waters off the U.S. West Coast is dissolving the shells of tiny free-swimming marine … Continue reading
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John Gribbin, Astrophysicist. If we destroy ourselves, a grave injustice to the universe
Below are a few paragraphs from Hirshfeld’s excellent book review of: John Gribbin. 2011. Alone in the Universe: Why Our Planet Is Unique. Humans are a miracle of blood, bone, and brain, a volatile mixture of compassion and brutality … Continue reading
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Birth Control won’t stop population growth
Russell Hopfenberg, at the Duke University School of Medicine, has written that global food supply is the variable which best accounts for human carrying capacity, and that human population will continue to grow as long as food supply increases. He … Continue reading
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