Updated Mining Footprints and Raw Material Needs for Clean Energy (thebreakthrough.org)
permian may be rolling over the crest of the seneca curve (twitter.com)
Life as a Surplus Elite in the 2020s • PRESENT PUNK (presentpunk.com)
Europe 2100: A Frozen Wasteland? (thehonestsorcerer.substack.com)
WTF Happened In 1971? (wtfhappenedin1971.com)
(kinda) A great website to share if you have no idea how to explain the downfall of the US economy....
The Crisis Report - 70 (richardcrim.substack.com)
What did they expect? (consciousnessofsheep.co.uk)
The Anthropic Biodiversity Principle | Do the Math (dothemath.ucsd.edu)
The Ant and the Grasshopper: Seasonality and the Invention of Agriculture (academic.oup.com)
Abstract The Neolithic revolution saw the independent development of agriculture among at least seven unconnected hunter-gatherer populations. I propose that the rapid spread of agricultural techniques resulted from increased climatic seasonality causing hunter-gatherers to adopt a sedentary lifestyle and store food for the...
Future global green value chains: estimating the renewables pull and understanding its impact on industrial relocation (2023) (zenodo.org)
On the path to climate neutrality, global production and trade of basic materials might change due to the heterogeneous availability of renewable electricity. Here we estimate the “renewables pull”, i.e. the energy-cost savings associated with such relocation, for varying depths of relocation for three key tradable...
World | Free Full-Text | The Human Ecology of Overshoot: Why a Major Population Correction Is Inevitable (www.mdpi.com)
Homo sapiens has evolved to reproduce exponentially, expand geographically, and consume all available resources. For most of humanity’s evolutionary history, such expansionist tendencies have been countered by negative feedback. However, the scientific revolution and the use of fossil fuels reduced many forms of negative...
The direct drivers of recent global anthropogenic biodiversity loss (2022) (www.science.org)
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The vulnerability of aging states: A survival analysis across premodern societies (www.pnas.org)
Significance...
Can Wind and Solar Solve Climate Change? (foreignpolicy.com)
“The fact that renewable energy is failing to decarbonize the electricity sector may surprise many readers accustomed to breathless reports of the rapid growth of renewable energy around the world. What Christophers means by this, though, is that while renewable energy is growing rapidly in many places, these increases are not...
#276: The Worthington Factor (surplusenergyeconomics.wordpress.com)
A letter to my kids - text and video (web.archive.org)
youtu.be/yJvczRkQHK0?si=sKeNgDa3ked5kafS
Selective deforestation and exposure of African wildlife to bat-borne viruses - Communications Biology (www.nature.com)
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The Crisis Report - 69 (richardcrim.substack.com)
I Saw the Future of Europe… In India (thehonestsorcerer.substack.com)
Recent reductions in aerosol emissions have increased Earth’s energy imbalance - Communications Earth & Environment (www.nature.com)
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Pervasive environmental chemicals impair oligodendrocyte development (www.nature.com)
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The Crisis Report - 68 (richardcrim.substack.com)
Earth’s record hot streak might be a sign of a new climate era (www.washingtonpost.com)
Potential Perturbation of the Ionosphere by Megaconstellations and Corresponding Artificial Re-entry Plasma Dust (2023) (arxiv.org)
500,000 to 1 million satellites are expected in the next decades, primarily to build internet constellations called megaconstellations. These megaconstellations are disposable and will constantly re-enter and be replaced, hence creating a layer of conductive particulate. Here it will be shown that the mass of the conductive...
Capitalism’s New Age of Plagues (climateandcapitalism.com)
4 part article...
