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Category Archives: Civilisation
Merry Christmas Mr Trump
Posted in Anthropocene, Civilisation, Collapse, Insanity, Mass Extinctions, Politics, Populism
Tagged Disarmament, Dissaster, Donald Trump, Nuclear Weapons
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From Noah to Nordhaus via Inhofe
US Senator James Inhofe (R-OK) is a climate change sceptic primarily because he believes God has promised not to flood the Earth again; and the rainbow in the sky tells him it must be true. Such ideologically-driven wilful blindness is … Continue reading
Posted in Civilisation, Climate Science, Cognitive Dissonance, Denial, Environment, Fossil Fuels, Mass Extinctions, Palaeoclimatology, Psychology
Tagged Antarctica, Archaeology, Ark, Comet, glaciers, Gobekli Tepe, Graham Hancock, History, James Inhofe, James Painter, Noah, Sphinx, Stephan Lewandowsky, William Nordhaus, Younger Dryas
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Are we all Britain haters now?
Here in the UK, the Daily Mail has got itself a lot of publicity for printing an article last Saturday entitled “Man Who Hated Britain”. The article was about the late father of Ed Milliband, who is the current leader … Continue reading
Posted in Capitalism, Civilisation, Climate Science, Denial, Environment, Growthmania, Politics, Religion
Tagged Daily Mail, Ed Milliband, Karl Marx, Ralph Milliband, Writing on the wall
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Music for 21 December 2012
Following on from yesterday’s post of an R.E.M. classic (It’s The End Of The World As We Know It), here is more of my choice of music inspired by the fact that the World is NOT going to end today… … Continue reading
Is it the end of the World as we know it?
No it is not; but thanks to R.E.M. for the inspiration! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z0GFRcFm-aY
Posted in Civil Disorder, Civilisation, Environment
Tagged Civil Disorder, Humour, music, REM
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Is there intelligent life on Earth?
I have signed-up as part of Bill McKibbin’s 350.org Social Media Team and, as such, have received my first mission objective – to share with you some important facts (numbers) that Bill thinks we should all be aware of… But … Continue reading
What on Earth are people protesting about?
It seems to me that an awful lot of people are protesting about the wrong things: People protesting about solutions In the course of yesterday’s post, ‘Ignorance is the enemy of humanity’, I linked to an item on Climate Denial … Continue reading
From Titanic to Avatar and back again
100 years ago today, the RMS Titanic struck an ice berg and, in the early hours of 15 April 1912, lost its battle with the Archimedes Principle and Gravity; and sank nearly 4km to the bottom of the North Atlantic. … Continue reading
Posted in Civilisation, Climate Science, Environment, Fossil Fuels, Politics
Tagged James Cameron
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Collapse or Ecocide – which will it be?
Collapse = An end to modern human civilisation as we have known it. Ecocide = Unintended ecological suicide (mass extinction of all complex life on Earth). Do we have a third option – Survival? I have recently started reading Jared … Continue reading
Posted in Civil Disorder, Civilisation, Climate Science, Collapse, Energy Crisis, Environment, Growthmania, Limits to Growth, Mass Extinctions, Modernity, Optimum Population, Photography, Sustainable development
Tagged Belshazzar's Feast, Civil Disorder, Jared Diamond, Quo Vadis, Writing on the wall
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Living on the edge of an Environmental breakdown!
I have just finished reading Derek Wall’s No Nonsense Guide to Green Politics, which was a very enlightening skip through the history of Green politics as well as some of its more esoteric recent developments. Amongst the most interesting facets … Continue reading
Anthropocene Reality 