"The document, a product of our joint investigation with ZDF Frontal21, gives exclusive insight into the million euro business of climate change deniers. It proves how disinformation is professionally scattered around society with the help of supposed experts, corrupt scientists, intentional spin and YouTube."—Katarina Huth and Jean Peters, "The Heartland Lobby." Correctiv. February 11, 2020. … Continue reading Disinformation: Heartland Institute & Climate Change
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Solein Because Soylent Was Already Taken | World Economic Forum
"...a new protein powder, Solein, made out of CO₂, water and electricity. It's a high-protein, flour-like ingredient that contains 50 percent protein content, 5–10 percent fat, and 20–25 percent carbs. It reportedly looks and tastes like wheat flour, and could become an ingredient in a wide variety of food products after its initial launch in … Continue reading Solein Because Soylent Was Already Taken | World Economic Forum
Existential Climate-Related Security Risk | Breakthrough
Climate change is "a path to the end of human civilization and modern society as we know it." —David Spratt and Ian Dunlop. "Existential Climate-Related Security Risk." Breakthrough. June 2019. Scenarios and social implications of climate change forecasting existential threat to humanity by 2050.
The Bureau of Linguistical Reality
"The Bureau of Linguistical Reality is a public participatory artwork by Heidi Quante and Alicia Escott focused on creating new language as an innovative way to better understand our rapidly changing world due to manmade climate change and other Anthropocenic events. The vision of the artwork is to provide new words to express what people … Continue reading The Bureau of Linguistical Reality
Imagined Possibilities & One Bad Storm
"Docility no longer emanates from priestly magic, it results from a mass of minor hypnoses: news, culture, town-planning, publicity, mechanisms of conditioning and suggestion in the service of any order, established or to come."—Raoul Vaneigem, "The Revolution of Everyday Life." Oakland, California: PM Press, 2012. I was reading an article in The Guardian on the problem … Continue reading Imagined Possibilities & One Bad Storm
The Anthropocene Project — Emergence Magazine
"This photo essay bears witness to a critical moment in geological history, showing the breadth of impact that our human systems and technologies have imposed onto natural landscapes."—The Anthropocene Project
The Great Filter: Civilization’s Lifetime
"Several of the scientists I spoke with proposed global warming as the solution to Fermi’s famous paradox, which asks, If the universe is so big, then why haven’t we encountered any other intelligent life in it? The answer, they suggested, is that the natural life span of a civilization may be only several thousand years, … Continue reading The Great Filter: Civilization’s Lifetime
After Atlas, Malthus Shrugged
"In 2014 I was visiting a university in Alaska, and happened to sit in on a lecture by the Norwegian policy expert Willy Ostreng about the new geopolitics of the Arctic. After talking about climate change in the Arctic and the increased accessibility to oil and gas, he embarked on a detailed elucidation of the … Continue reading After Atlas, Malthus Shrugged
Climate Change: Are We Fucked?
"Yes, of course, we’re fucked. (Though it’s important to specify the “we” in this formulation, because the global poor, the disenfranchised, the young, and the yet-to-be-born are certifiably far more fucked than such affluent, white, middle-aged Americans as Vollmann and myself.) But here’s the thing: with climate change as with so much else, all fuckedness … Continue reading Climate Change: Are We Fucked?
Hot Mess – A Show About Climate Change
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=LKhGg0jDZTc Check out their whole series.
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