Archive for the 'Environment' Category
Canada: Apocalyptic Oil Sand Operations
February 25th, 2008As bad as this seems, it’s just a preview of things to come. I could be wrong, but my guess is that asymmetric operations against the energy companies—inside G8 states—will begin if the insane decision is made to go with nuclear power to provide the heat necessary to recover the oil from these deposits. There […]
China: Coalmine Fire Put Out After Half a Century
February 8th, 2008The is the most incredible thing I’ve read since the one about the massive plastic trash tip in the Pacific Ocean. Via: Times Online: After a three-year effort and untold quantities of water, Chinese firefighters have extinguished a fire that had been burning underground in a coalmine for more than 50 years. The blaze had […]
A Garbage Tip that Stretches from Hawaii to Japan
February 6th, 2008Via: Independent: A “plastic soup” of waste floating in the Pacific Ocean is growing at an alarming rate and now covers an area twice the size of the continental United States, scientists have said. The vast expanse of debris – in effect the world’s largest rubbish dump – is held in place by swirling underwater […]
NYPD Tests Vectrix Electric Scooters
December 27th, 2007NYPD Intelligence Division Officer: “We Are in the Business of Scaring People,” but in a clean, green manner. Via: Business Week: Police have found a way to help save the planet and perhaps sneak up on bad guys at the same time: an electric, ultra-quiet scooter. The New York Police Department will begin road testing […]
UN: World Food Stocks Dwindling Rapidly
December 18th, 2007If you look at the ongoing crises involved with food production, you see not just a perfect storm, but multiple perfect storms. — Cryptogon November 28, 2007 Via: International Herald Tribune: In an “unforeseen and unprecedented” shift, the world food supply is dwindling rapidly and food prices are soaring to historic levels, the top food […]
Tax Babies to Save the Planet
December 11th, 2007Carbon credits for voluntary sterilization? Why not hand out $100 WalMart gift certificates to those who volunteer to sterilize themselves? It could be like those gun exchanges in U.S. ghettos. The baby daddies show up, wait in line, step inside the Homeland’s sterilization van, * snip snip * and then it’s off to get a […]
We May Well Have to ‘Geo-Engineer’ the Climate
December 4th, 2007Only lunatics believe in chemtrails! Via: Globe and Mail: Geoengineering would involve, for example, putting sulphate aerosols into the atmosphere…
Kleiner Perkins: Al Gore and Colin Powell, Together at Last to Save the Planet
December 3rd, 2007“You won’t have the clean technology without a total, fascist lockdown. I’ve said it from the beginning, and I’m saying it now. The technology to build the techno green utopia has been around for easily thirty years. Sorry folks, that’s not how it went, and that’s not how it’s going to go. The primacy of […]
Pandora’s Pantry
December 3rd, 2007Via: Celsias: Monsanto’s key selling point for Roundup Ready seeds has been to tell farmers that one or two good dousings with Roundup will solve all their weed problems. The corporation placed print ads telling farmers that Roundup was “the only weed control you’ll ever need,†even while, in the words of University of California […]
Forget the Green Technology – The Hot Money Is in Guns
December 1st, 2007Naomi Klein gets close, but misses the mark. For those of us who understand clean, green fascism, it’s not a question of clean energy technology OR armaments and surveillance; it’s both. You won’t have viable clean technology without a total, fascist lockdown. I’ve said it from the beginning, and I’m saying it now. The technology […]
