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World’s Premier Marine Ecosystem at Risk

Robert Hunziker — Mon, 31 Oct 2022 06:15:23 +0000

The Southern Ocean is 10% of the world’s oceans. Yet, it is arguably the most significant ecosystem of the planet for marine sea life as well as regulation of CO2 and ocean heat, serving as a buffer to climate change and thereby benefiting the entire globe. It is the final frontier of life support for Earth.

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Kiss the Amazon Goodbye?

Robert Hunziker — Mon, 12 Sep 2022 09:42:18 +0000

As devastating as Trump was for the environment, President Jair Bolsonaro has one-upped Trump. He’s single-handedly destroying the world’s largest rainforest. It may be the single most important ecosystem for the survival of Homo sapiens.

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Is There Enough Metal to Replace Oil?

Robert Hunziker — Thu, 25 Aug 2022 01:32:30 +0000

The short answer: No, not even close!

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Will Egypt Drain the World’s Second Largest Wetlands?

Robert Hunziker — Sat, 16 Jul 2022 22:34:35 +0000

Sudd is Africa’s largest freshwater wetland at roughly 3,500 square miles in an otherwise dry region of South Sudan. It’s under threat by a megaproject named Jonglei Canal that has the potential to devastate this ecological gem.

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Chomsky & the United Nations Warn of Collapse

The CNCL Team — Sat, 09 Jul 2022 22:34:51 +0000

It’s entirely possible that doomsayers of the world, though widely ridiculed, could be on target about the prospects for global societal collapse. But, of course, when? According to a recent Noam Chomsky interview, it’s an ongoing grind that will end with a thud.

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Buckle Up! The Arctic’s Sizzling

Robert Hunziker — Sat, 18 Jun 2022 04:37:58 +0000

The Arctic is turning into a dream come true for doomsayers. It’s heating way too fast! Nostradamus is dancing in the street.

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India – Birds Drop Out of the Sky, People Die

Robert Hunziker — Thu, 26 May 2022 02:24:27 +0000

Death by humid heat in India equates to the tolling of bells, slowly, repeatedly, as black pennants flutter along the distant horizon. Another one has died and another, and one more, and another and another, as the monotonous tolling becomes an atrocious irritation.

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The Biomass Peril

Robert Hunziker — Mon, 23 May 2022 22:51:54 +0000

By all appearances, woody biomass is an unstoppable behemoth initiated by the EU, which is now scrambling, as it tries to undo a monster of its own creation.

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Japan’s Toxic Dumping Faces Growing Protests

Robert Hunziker — Sun, 01 May 2022 00:07:04 +0000

The Japanese government’s decision one year ago to dump radioactive water from Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant storage tanks into the Pacific Ocean, starting in the spring of 2023, is facing increasing pressure to back off, especially in light of the facts that not only is it illegal but also morally reprehensible as well as a despicable disregard for the lifeblood of the ocean.

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The Collapse of Industrial Farming

Robert Hunziker — Thu, 28 Apr 2022 06:13:30 +0000

The most upending event of the past 10,000 years is the advent of engineered food as fermentation farms displace factory farms. “We are on the Cusp of the Fastest, Deepest, Most Consequential Disruption of Agriculture in History.”

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Scientists Hit the Streets

Robert Hunziker — Tue, 12 Apr 2022 06:59:20 +0000

A revolutionary slogan by climate scientists “1.5C is Dead - Climate Revolution Now!” emblazoned the streets of the world on April 6th spawned by the Sixth Assessment Report, Mitigation of Climate Change, Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) released April 4th.

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The Truth About IPCC Reports

Robert Hunziker — Sat, 09 Apr 2022 20:05:30 +0000

At the center of the issue, the IPCC does not expose the full extent of existential risk, which happens to be such an unthinkable event so hard to accept that nobody believes it will ever really truly happen.

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