Not necessarily related to the video, but I would posit that a significant reason for the Malthusianism and antinatalism on the contemporary western left is this underlying hatred of responsibility and personal obligation: they don’t want to be given the “burden” of raising children (and then moralize this […]
It’s like if a murderer wants his sentence lightened during trail by saying “But I used a sterilized knife and a condom during the act, I cared about the victim.” Unlike the former no one’s holding these mass murderers on trail.
The Lever’s David Sirota describes a disturbing trend of Big Oil’s influence in politics.
Todd Lewish will be discussing with James Kunstler his work on the Long Emergency; Tech Skepticism and the future we all can expect to live through.
By Peter Zeihan My fourth book, The End of the World Is Just the Beginning: Mapping the Collapse of Globalization is scheduled for release on June 14. In coming weeks we will be sharing graphics and excerpts, along with info on how to preorder. Much of the angst in geopolitics […]
By Peter Zeihan My fourth book, The End of the World Is Just the Beginning: Mapping the Collapse of Globalization is scheduled for release on June 14. In coming weeks we will be sharing graphics and excerpts, along with info on how to preorder. Is climate change important? Absolutely. But […]
Human rights lawyer Steven Donziger details his almost 1000-day detention after taking on Big Oil.
Krystal and Saagar talk live with Marshall and Kyle about the future of energy policy given geopolitical instability and rising gas prices as politicians incentives stray from the American public
By Sharon Kelly, Desmog In a pilot project last year, ExxonMobil used up to 18 million cubic feet of gas per month to mine bitcoin in North Dakota. Flaring — or the burning of stranded natural gas directly at an oil well — is one of the drilling […]
Krystal and Saagar are joined by author and energy expert Meredith Angwin to better understand the benefits of nuclear power and why the talking points against it fall flat
Krystal and Saagar are joined by journalist for THE LEVER and elsewhere Adam Lowenstein to better understand how BlackRock will profit off climate change as part of the larger ESG scam
Ryan Grim and Robby Soave discuss President Biden’s 2023 budget proposal.
“Do you think a solar storm could cause a power outage?” “Well in my opinion, the sun goes up and then it goes down”
The American Prospect’s Lee Harris makes the case that climate change is a working-class problem.
by Don Fitz The September 2021 Scientific American included a description by the editors of the deplorable state of disaster relief in the US. They traced the root cause of problems with relief programs as their “focus on restoring private property,” which results in little attention to those […]
The Intercept’s Mara Hvistendahl details her interview with EcoHealth Alliance president Peter Daszak
Ryan Grim, Robby Soave, and Kim Iversen react to UC Berkeley slashing enrollment over California environmental laws.
Max Alvarez and Pamela Denise Long discuss a shocking new report showing over 170 million Americans suffer cognitive deficiencies as a result of lead poisoning.
Ryan Grim, Kim Iversen, and Robby Soave discuss the United Nations’ latest assessment of the dangers of the climate emergency.
Krystal and Saagar introduce a Breaking Points collaboration with Marshall Kosloff that will feature long form interviews with Marshall and leading thinkers across the political spectrum starting with Michael Shellenberger on the west’s green energy delusions as war breaks out in Ukraine
By Shrishtee Bajpai, Juan Manuel Crespo, Ashish Kothari Open Democracy From the border regions of South Asia to the Amazon rainforest, people are seeking new ways to organise societies that respect humans and nature. It is becoming increasingly obvious that we need to think about the problems of […]
Ryan Grim makes the case for lowering the price of gas by reducing demand, rather than increasing supply. WATCH HERE
Saagar makes the comprehensive case for large investments in nuclear power after President Biden ignored it during his state of the union speech
The Daily Poster’s Andrew Perez discusses corporate influence on our country’s climate crisis response.
In other words, there is the temporal self (personality) aspect of us that is always going to be changing and impermanent as it flows through the ever changing circumstances of life (negative and positive; duality)… AND there is the eternal observer within us that is ALWAYS present and […]
Would love to see the court apply the same logic to the DEA
Lisa Sachs on the environmental challenges of clean technology. On the shore of the Congo River in Kinshasa sits the Fleuve Congo Hotel, a five-star hotel with a weekly pool party in a country where most people subsist on less than $2 a day. The hotel hosts an ongoing […]
By Jack Phillips, Epoch Times Possibly hundreds of Porsches, Volkswagens, Bentleys, and Lamborghinis are marooned on a burning ship in the Atlantic Ocean after the crew abandoned the vessel earlier this week. According to the real-time data website FleetMon, which tracks ships, the Felicity Ace car carrier vessel’s […]
Ryan Grim discusses the role the private sector could play in mitigating the climate crisis, if forced to by the SEC.
#Russia has maintained a threatening posture against Ukraine, including maintaining approximately 100,000 troops near the Ukrainian border. The United States and the United Kingdom have taken the lead in crafting a set of financial sanctions they are threatening to levy against Russia in the case of any aggression. […]
The Average Chinese worker has seen their wages increase 500% in the last 15 years, they have laid 15,000miles of high-speed rail in the last 10 years. Now the Chinese have more high-speed rail than the rest of the world combined. China has seen the quickest and greatest […]
Webinar at 7 pm CT USA, Wed, Feb 2, 2022, 2021 If you are joining from Great Britain, 1:00 am, Thur, Feb 3, 2022 If you are joining from Australia, 12:00 pm noon, Thur, Feb 3, 2022 Many manufacturing and agricultural practices, especially animal confinement, degrade water quality. […]
My guest today is Tim Flannery. Tim Flannery is a monologist and paleontologist. He was the chief commissioner of the Australian Climate Commission and Chairman of the Copenhagen Climate Council. He was named Australian Humanist of the year in 2005 and Australian of the Year in 2007.
By Alleen Brown The Intercept On a color-coded map, land belonging to Native tribes that opposed the Line 3 pipeline were marked in red — areas of “threat” to the bottom line. As part of its efforts to build and operate pipelines, the oil transport company Enbridge used […]
A classic from Murray Bookchin. Note A splendid text with many interesting considerations and anticipations. From: Post-Scarcity Anarchism, 1971. In almost every period since the Renaissance, the development of revolutionary thought has been heavily influenced by a branch of science, often in conjunction with a school […]
Krystal and Saagar are joined by Daily Poster journalist David Sirota for the weekly collaboration to talk about how BlackRock is greenwashing polluters and the failure of Democratic Party leadership.
Journalists Jordan Chariton and Charlie LeDuff lay out their new reporting on the Rico charges that were blocked in the Flint water crisis scandal.
By Michael Shellenberger Don’t believe the hype: the future is bright. The success of Environmental Progress in winning hearts and changing minds proves it. Now watch what happens next. Not that long ago ago it appeared that most of the trends relating to the issues that Environmental Progress […]
By Michael Shellenberger Progressives say they care more about working people and climate change than Republicans and moderate Democrats. Why, then, do they advocate policies that make energy expensive and dirty? Progressive Democrats including Sen. Bernie Sanders and Rep. Pramila Jayapal, the head of the House progressive caucus, […]
By Michael Shellenberger And why did they rise from 1900 to 2000 before declining? Over the last 30 years, the United Nations, climate scientists, and governments around the world have claimed that climate change is making natural disasters including hurricanes, floods, and heatwaves more frequent. “Climate change has […]
Ryan Grim, Robby Soave, and Kim Iversen react to Tim Green, NASA’s retiring top scientist, claims that we can terraform Mars and maybe Venus.
Krystal and Saagar look at the major traffic jam on I-95 in Virginia after a winter storm that caused drivers to be stuck for over 30 hours with little assistance from government officials
Ryan Grim and Robby Soave discuss the massive overnight traffic stop on I-95, as well as Covid case data collection.
Climate scientist Peter Kalmus discusses climate change skepticism and the influence of the fossil fuel industry on climate policy.
Interview by KK Ottesen, Washington Post Student and climate activist Greta Thunberg, 18, burst improbably onto the world stage in late 2018 when what began as a one-person school strike outside the Swedish parliament ended up galvanizing a global climate movement to demand immediate action to prevent environmental […]
Anarchist News From The Art Newspaper, by Keith Miller, 13 September 2021 new book surveys the architecture of anarchist settlements From geodesic domes in South Colorado to the Calais Jungle in Europe, this provocative work studies 60 structures that were built according to values of autonomy, voluntary association, […]
Released from prison just last week, now under house arrest for the remainder of his sentence, Steven Donziger speaks out about the injustices against incarcerated people and the solidarity among incarcerated people he witnessed firsthand. He reveals how truly broken the prison-industrial complex is, but he also offers […]
By Joel Mathis, The Week Extreme weather doesn’t really bother me. I’ve lived in Kansas most of my life, have witnessed tornadoes and flooding, love nothing more than a good gullywasher rain storm. You respect the danger of such events, but you also get used to them. It’s […]
By Brigid Kennedy The Week An “unprecedented” storm system attacked the central United States Wednesday night into Thursday morning “with high winds that kicked up dust storms, fueled wildfires,” “knocked down power lines,” and left “more than 510,000 customers without power,” The Washington Post reports. Over 36 million people […]
By Sarah Kaplan Washington Post The ice shelf was cracking up. Surveys showed warm ocean water eroding its underbelly. Satellite imagery revealed long, parallel fissures in the frozen expanse, like scratches from some clawed monster. One fracture grew so big, so fast, scientists took to calling it “the […]
Nemesis: The Last Days of the American Republic by Chalmers Johnson
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