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Update: 20th Nov 2024
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Human Cognition is Obsolete. Part 1

William Rees is an ultra-distinguished ecological scientist, and an original researcher on human impacts on biosphere life. Eric Lee has cleaned up, and published a formatted transcript with slides, taken from Prof. Rees recent webinar presentation titled - "Will Modern Civilization be the Death of Us? Have Humans Become Obsolete?". It is presented here, because of the disinterest of mainstream media and conventional political narrative.

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Update: 20th Nov 2024
H.narrator
The Dying Planet Index
When it goes, we lose all our selves
The idea of a renewable-energy powered future that allows for economic growth is a ... delusion — a death sentence for Earth’s ecosystems and posterity’s well-being. It reflects a fundamental misunderstanding of reality. ...
The real problem lies in the way we think — that’s the true dark matter operating beneath the surface, shaping how we perceive and engage with the world.

Eric Lee works hard to understand, organize and quote from people who actually have a clue as to what is going on.


Update: 26th Oct 2024
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Earth In Crisis : Elites and politicians are dangerous drivers
Human wastes are exploding in reality

I present the text of the "Climate Emergency Forum" this week, the video is published on YouTube, State of the Climate 2024 - Earth in Crisis.  Discussion centered around the publication in the BioScience journal, available online -  "The 2024 state of the climate report: Perilous times on planet Earth".  This was published on 08th October 2024, by an author list of Climate Scientists in prestigious institutional paid positions, who are not known to be given to alarmist predictions without strong evidence. A number of factors suggest the earth's climate system warming resistance is collapsing. Terrestrial carbon sinks are not working as well as before. Well known climate tipping point processes are getting bigger. And of course human civilization continues to pump out more greenhouse gases every year.

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Update: 26th Aug 2024
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Natural Born Killers: the Curse of Nation-States

Ugo Bardi offers a flash of insight into reasons for differences in strategy of Nation-State majorities, versus the ideology of  elites in charge of Empires.

... Nation-States persecute minorities, while Empires try to protect the rights of its minority groups, something that an independent power can often do. A nation-state, instead, is a natural born killer of minorities. Simply, it has no mechanisms to protect them from the whims of the majority.

... In Western democracies, you can vote for any candidate as long as he/she obeys the orders of the US elites. Once people lose their trust in democracy, the American Empire cannot last for long.


Update: 16th Aug 2024
MWM
Fossil fuel exports mean Australia’s carbon footprint is getting bigger
Not at all green. Image: Photo by Chris LeBoutillier on Unsplash

The Climate Analytics (CA) report published this week confirms that Australia has one of the world’s highest total per capita emissions for all greenhouse gases, double that of China and nine times bigger than India. . . .

According to the CA report, Close to 80% of Australia’s total fossil fuel CO2 footprint in 2022 was due to exported carbon. Australia is the third largest fossil fuel exporter in the world, after Russia and the US. In terms of total greenhouse gas footprint, Australia ranks second, however, due to our love of emission-intensive coal.


Update: 7th Aug 2024
Counterpunch
Pesticides: Existential Danger
The central women represents USA congress being bought by wealthy man.

When EPA made DDT illegal, in 1972, pesticide merchants used DDT in the making of new compounds. They dubbed the DDT parts of these new chemicals “inert” in order to mislead the government and the user, telling them those inert chemicals were harmless. Indeed, all pesticides include toxic and untested ingredients branded inert. - Evaggelos Vallianatos -   https://www.counterpunch.org/2024/08/05/pesticides-existential-danger/

Evaggelos Vallianatos worked as an Analyst inside the USA EPA, and is author of the book "Poison Spring: The Secret History of Pollution and the EPA". Yes, global poisoning is still going on. No, you cannot buy the E-Book version from outside the USA.  A printed version can be ordered from Abbey's books.


Update: 29th Jul 2024
Pearls & Irritations
The Albanese government has created a climate vacuum, and we will pay the price
Australias duopoly party governments are paid members of the Climate Grim Reaper Inc, for our national Coal and Gas Exports.

Since coming to power, the Albanese Labor government has been working hard not to talk about climate warming impacts, not to lead the nation in a public conversation about how to face the greatest threat to our future, and it shows in recent public opinion research.

...The government does not want to talk about future climate risks because it is conspiring with the fossil fuel industry to make the problem worse.


Update: 28th Jul 2024
tsakraklides.com
Climate Science is dead. What now?
Climate in Somalia. Heat and drought in the global south.

This is no longer the same planet Earth we once knew, that loved us.

It doesn’t matter if climate scientists cannot accurately say if this is code red, or code purple. They should be labeling it as code “extinction” or “collapse”, and communicating it accordingly.


Update: 27th Jul 2024
World Energy Data
Fossil Fuel emissions still rising
According to World Energy Data, fossil fuels were subsidized at a rate of $13 million per minute in 2022, totaling $7 trillion.

According to conventional econometrics, GDP per capita has never been better.

The global middle class are living in Maximum Human Supremacy.

Meanwhile, our biosphere has never been more at risk.

Our denial is in the comforting lies of statistics - The Unbearable Anthropocentrism of Our World in Data




Update: 26th Jul 2024
ABC
China's renewables surge is leaving nuclear power behind in the dust, and soon to overtake coal.
High voltage power lines across the Yangtze River

...While Australia debates the merits of going nuclear and frustration grows over the slower-than-needed rollout of solar and wind power, China is going all in on renewables.

New figures show the pace of its clean energy transition is roughly the equivalent of installing five large-scale nuclear power plants worth of renewables every week.

The China Energy Council estimated renewables generation would overtake coal by the end of this year.


Update: 11th Jun 2024
Counterpunch
Fossil Fuel Industry uses a punitive legal weapon

Who set up these ISDS tribunals?

  •  ... of the 12 largest ISDS awards to date, 11 involve cases brought by fossil fuel and mining investors.
  •  Called “litigation terrorism,” because they “instill fear of environmental regulations, climate regulations because you know that it’s going to be costly” for governments.
  •  A global governance regime that prioritizes corporate rights over those of governments, people, and the planet.
  •  Multinational corporations from the U.S. launched the highest number of ISDS cases worldwide

Another way that a wealthy few maintain a fossil fueled stranglehold over this planet.


Update: 3rd May 2024
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Doctor's Diagnosis for the Earth
Wildlife reduced to less than 1% of biomass. Human domesticants take up most of net primary production.

….[modern] humanity is a cancer, and that’s neither hyperbole, metaphor nor analogy…

Eric Lee published in Medium.com this review of the book "Homo Ecophagus" authored by doctor Warren M. Hern

Unfortunately there still remains a lot of fossil fuels, especially oil,  to feed this global civilization cancer until it kills its host.
For this global cancer to die it needs to be starved, or selectively poisoned.

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Update: 20th Apr 2024
Truth Out
No more below 1.5 °C

For those who care to know officially,
average global warming of below 1.5 °C
looks to be a thing of the past.

Our ecosphere system responds to human escalation.

The race to biosphere extinction continues.



Update: 28th Mar 2024
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Fundamental Failure of Environmentalism
Sea Surface Temperatures, March 27 2024. https://climatereanalyzer.org/clim/sst_daily/
David Suzuki stated in a 2017 blog post,  that "Environmentalism has failed.", and summarized major reasons for why.  Environmentalism is known to have been failing for a very long time, and you can search online for numerous opinions on this, including admissions of defeat.  This is asked particularly in the USA, where the political duopoly system excludes alternatives. Today, in 2023, their is still in every fossil-fuel powered national government an emphasis of economy over environment. State governments are officially styled as the principle law makers and regulation enforcers. But the political parties running them, regardless of election methods, and means of sustaining power, are subject to the powerful influence of the most pervasive and successful monetary-economic forces, namely the fossil fuel extraction and energy industries that make this Techno-Industrial Civilization - TIC,  possible. TIC is also failing, because our environment and resources are failing. Failing environmentalism appears to be built-in attribute of our TIC, and by extension our species.  .. to page

Update: 15th Feb 2024
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How to enjoy the end of the world - Chapter 5: Ecological Overshoot
On average, land Net Primary Production - NPP, has fallen (top), and is largely appropriated by humans (bottom) PNAS Article

In his You-tube explanatory series "How to enjoy the end of the world" ( HTETEOTW ) Dr. Sidney Smith continues to describe the bare-bones of what he thinks everyone ought to know, in order to understand, accept,  and maybe start preparing for some of the big changes that are happening now.

"... Nothing lives that doesn't also die, an outcome guaranteed by the fundamental laws of nature that govern both energy and complexity. Civilizations, including our own, are no exception. ... " - B. Sidney Smith

His Ph.D is in Mathematics, and a summary of his outlook includes this essay in 2012, entitled "All the bunnies in the meadow die". Some of this essay material is re-used in this latest video on Ecological Overshoot. The basic definitions are very clear.

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Update: 6th Feb 2024
Michael West Media
Climate Betrayal: how backroom deals with Japan locked Australia in for decades of gas
More money and gas pipes, than makes sense, even if you believe in CO2 burial.

The International Energy Agency forcefully states that the pathway to net zero by 2050 is a very narrow one and requires that no new oil and gas fields get approved.

And yet, despite the Australian public voting for Labor’s pledge to aggressively reduce emissions, on the day after he was sworn in as Australia’s 31st Prime Minister, Albanese was at Kantei in Tokyo making a contrary pledge of “better energy security” for Japan.

Recent Freedom of Information (FOI) releases, and close examination of a mosaic of evidence, have shed new light on who’s been convincing the Government to back away from turning off the gas tap.

The Barossa project is key to the future profits of Santos. The project involves piping gas from the Barossa field north of Darwin for onshore processing. Its output is intended for export to Asia.

In terms of carbon emissions, Barossa is the dirtiest of projects. Some experts have described it as a carbon emission project with LNG as a by-product. To deal with this, the company intends to bury the unwanted CO2 output in the now commercially depleted Bayu-Udan gas field in Timor-Leste waters.


Update: 6th Feb 2024
Science Direct
Growing oil energy cannibalism steals our net energy supply
Average oil liquids net-energy production from 1950 to 2050, compared to the gross energy. From:- Peak oil and the low-carbon energy transition: a net-energy perspective

Energy cannibalism, or energy self-use, is the necessity to spend energy in order to extract additional energy from the environment. This publication estimates that by 2020 the production of oil liquids, including Diesel fuel, costs 15.5% of the energy from this high energy quality resource. This fraction is growing at an exponential rate. By 2050, the net-energy fraction will be around half. Unconventional oil liquids are reported as continuously replacing higher quality conventional ones. A review of energy analysis literature and history highlights industry predictions about future supply, and evaluates several models to conservatively predict long term decline of net energy. Global heating by emissions is accelerated by the rise in gross production of oil liquids, peaking maybe in 2035, if no other dynamic factors intervene. There are a lot of caveats and assumptions listed.

For biosphere and climate integrity, and survival of other species, we cannot run out of low cost, net energy fast enough. For economies, declining net energy is the fast disappearance of the temporary carrying capacity of fossil fuels to power all the requirements of sustaining our industrial civilization, and must end our enormous population overshoot of over-consuming humans.




Update: 6th Feb 2024
Honest Sorcerer
Renewable energy cannot maintain non-renewable supplies
Plumes of diesel smoke everywhere. Photo by Dominik Vanyi on Unsplash

The "Honest Sorcerer", B on substack, presents irrefutable logic that this age of mining must reach an end, as mining ability requires energy and mineral supply, and this declines with depletion. The fully dependent renewable energy transition cannot prevent a global energy and minerals supply crunch.  The end of mining brings our all-consuming, destructive industrial civilization, to its natural biosphere-breaking end.


Update: 30th Nov 2023
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Homo Sapiens Are Working Overtime to Join ‘The Great Silence’
Extinction by overshoot. What a way to go.

Big overshoot of our extinction cliff edge. Our planet's cooling system has broken. . . . Lest we forget, humanity’s conundrum is an overshoot of nearly every safe environmental boundary that allowed humans to survive and thrive in the last 10,000 years. . . . The absurdity of our response, or lack thereof, is becoming ever more apparent as conditions continue to deteriorate around us. . . . We have already lost more than half, two thirds even, of all life on the planet.

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Update: 30th Nov 2023
Wiley
Collapse Now : Recalibration of limits to growth - An update of the World3 model
Collapse of industrial output in "Business as Usual" scenario is around about now

Now calibrated with current datasets, an updated Limits to Growth model shows collapse in global industrial output is already happening just about now. Collapse is from resources depletion, particularly oil. Human population reduction will follow later. Persistent pollution is indexed to accumulated industrial CO2 emissions, which will continue grow to badly plague us later. 


Screenings of "The First Wave" film from April

Film showings of this epic coal port blockade have started, around Australia. Find one or arrange one for your community.

Civilisation is unravelling

Rupert Read, Ecological Philosopher, projects courage from his strong convictions in a short graphic film below. 

A longer presentation on why - this you-tube link. Salter Lecture 2023 -

"The horrible wonderful truth about Climate. Why facing that truth changes everything".

Short long run answer is yes. Link to youtube video
Blowing up in plain sight

Gas Emissions Craters (GEC) are exploding in Siberia as the permafrost melts  - like a teenager coming down with Acne. Major carbon sinks move towards failure around our planet. The Amazon Rainforests is now considered a carbon source. Our overheated oceans may become so choked with heat and carbon dioxide they stop obliging to absorb more of our insults. Such are dangers being faced by all life on this planet, as human industrial civilisation has refused to stop growing. It is all becoming the stuff of biblical "Revelations". One would think our pentacostal prime minister should to Glasgow to lap it up, but no, Australia and the fossil fuel world isn't ready for this. 

. . . unless there are immediate rapid and large-scale reductions in greenhouse gas emissions that limit warming to close to 1.5° C or even 2° C, the problem will extend “beyond reach” and beyond any chance for some level of control.
NSW native forest still being logged
Video NSW Nature Council - link

NSW nature conservation council needs your support to continue to pressure the NSW government to finally stop the logging destruction of our remaining native forest areas. It can be done. The industry is uneconomic. 91% of timber is from plantations, and it needs to be 100%. We need native forest ecosystems to stop declining and grow in size and health, to enable the survival of the creatures that live in them, including koalas.

Notes on Carbon Dioxide in Global Warming, Acidified Oceans, and Weathered Rocks

I know it is a bitter pill to swallow, but the only real way to slow global warming in any noticeable way is to stop anthropogenic CO2 emissions FOREVER. There are no post-facto technological ‘capture’ or ‘remediation’ techniques that exist now or “could be developed” that would actually work as “silver bullets” of salvation; they would only ‘work’ as money making scams with which to gull those despairing of the ‘loss of easy living.’

- "Notes on Carbon Dioxide in Global Warming, Acidified Oceans, and Weathered Rocks" - Manuel Garcie Jr.

Safe Climate Delusions of Australian People

Climate Council Public Petition to sign: To play its fair part in the rapid, sustained reductions required globally, Australia should aim to reduce its emissions by 75% below 2005 levels by 2030, and to net zero by 2035.

Tipping points of our biophysical systems

Nafeez Ahmed publishes "How to Save the World in 15 Years. PART TWO." The IPCC is politically climate conservative. Climate tipping points are irreversible and evidencing now. Not just the climate. The latest data also suggests that more than half – six out of nine – planetary boundaries appear to have now been crossed by human civilisation.

Climate Change 2021: The Physical Science Basis

New is latest IPCC report "Climate Change 2021: The Physical Science Basis" The hard work of many, it has fully documented and projected climate past and potential futures, with lots of corroborating detail, numbers and graphs, and improved datasets. Climate science is more certain, errorbars a little smaller. The website "Real Climate" scored a flurry of new posts from notable climate scientists. Future scenario pathways, our warming future, will depend on choices of today's governments and their money and power brokers. Just how much denial will they be allowed to get away with?  Chances of scraping under 1.5 C° of warming in the next thirty years depends on keeping with the best "low-emissions scenarios". Nations need to work more on their NDC's, the "Nationally Determined Contributions". Global cooperation needs to come from a willing positive force from home, not a negative arm-twisted condescension imposed externally.

Net zero 2050 A dangerous illusion

Analysis reveals that “Net Zero 2050” strategies will lock in many decades of unnecessary fossil fuels use well past 2050, with an unsustainable, business-as-usual economic pathway, dangerous “offset” trade-offs, and unacceptable risks of unstoppable climate warming. - Breakthrough - National Centre for Climate Restoration

Mining of Minerals and Limits to Growth

Simon Michaux, expert on minerals processing, reports on our real system limits for mining of minerals, particularly those required for IT and green technologies. A detailed PDF of same report is available from here.

The Apocalypse is Now

Robert Hunziker declares we have started the rolling climate apocalypse.  Cities, infrastructure and people of fossil fuel civilization are not designed to withstand extreme heat and rapid flooding events. Evolved ecosystems are dying from the advanced human onslaught. 

Earth Emergency

SBS shows on-demand online documentary. Arresting videos of global warming multiple feedbacks, which threaten to push climate collapse out of control. 

Survey - Your local issues

ParraCAN has its first online survey here.

Fight for Planet A
Does A mean Australia?
The kids are more engaging and honest than our politicians
Fifty years of dirty fossil fools
Climate Emergency

Coal Mining runs Australia, and will ruin it.
Video Link - Dirty Power : Big Coal’s network of influence over the Coalition Government

The Coal Industry has Manipulated and Controlled Australia through the Liberal National Party and Murdoch NewsFork for decades, and looks forwards to ruining it while it profits.

Richard Di Natale - Press Club Speech 1 May 2019
Video Link to Greens Memories: Good presentation. Too bad the press and mining barons are into wealth politics.
Climacide has ended the cycle of ice ages
Video Link : Last time the global warmed

Even aiming to stay within the global warming range of 1.5 to 2 degrees C, the earth systems are pushed on a path that takes us to the kind of climate of 3 million years ago, Pliocene or even 50 million years ago, the Miocene. The Holocene, which nutured our civilizations, is over forever.

Right now, to avoid the extreme, conditions of the Miocene, not compatible with human civilization at all, and insure that only Pliocene conditions are reached, a rapid, global exponential decarbonization is required

Climacide is the usual cause of termination of Apex Species
Video Link : Saving the life supports of our planet

David Suzuki points out, that a recent climate science paper says there remains only a 5 percent chance of staying below 2 degrees this Century, and we have actually more chance of reaching 6 degrees of warming (10%), than staying below 2 C. So we'ed better get on with it, as a global apex species, because even 2 degrees is not favourable to the long term survival biosphere apex species such as ourselves. Australia is especially singled out for its rigged corporate games in government..

A Six Million Year Plan for Earth
Video Link : Civilisation is too big and too wrong

Everything politicians think they know is most certainly wrong for the real world. Global governments fixation on mutual traded, competitive, exponential, fossil fueled growth. This is the worst possible, long term option ever. There is no wriggle out of contract consequences - Making a Hell of Earth. So what is the cause of this collective insanity? Rapid extinction is nature's unthinking plan for a species that collectively destroys its foundational environment.

Growth still the climate killer

The Global Carbon Project, which collects and analyses our global carbon behaviour, shows that nearly everybody is misbehaving.
Growth in global carbon emissions in 2018 looks to be around 2%, which is exactly tied to the rate of economic growth (by GDP)
Growth in Gas was the worst at 3.0%, and almost certainly involves a growth in total methane leakage. It is not provable that the rise in global carbon emissions with GDP has produced a similar rise in global well-being.

New record high of carbon dioxide emissions of 37 billion tonnes for 2018, says we are going to fail very badly.

Humanity are still trying to collectively have infinite growth on this finite planet. Here in Australia, our Prime Madman Scott Morrison, keeps defiantly shouting his "Strong Economy" slogan, in the tones of "Resistance is useless", while Australia burns hotter. After Albert Einstein, we could say that only one thing is infinite, and that is human collective stupidity.

Absent any serious form of global self-control, human global demolition will be future choked by several possible natural "Limits to Growth".  Given our massed social and technical ingenuity, we might even manage to have several at once. We might escape the global decline in essential heavy fuel oil supply to power our global big machines, or spend all our energies against the inexorable rise in new climate disasters. This is probably already out of our control, as we struggle to keep creating new limits by growing our ongoing demolition of biodiversity and natural sustainability.

Climate Emergency Declaration

If enough people demand it, governments could declare a climate emergency tomorrow, and we could all get on with the job of fixing it.

   - CEDAMIA


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