The New Beginning: depletion of natural resources

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Wednesday, August 25, 2021

Oligarchs Battling One Another

#KateRaworth features in WWF's film 'Our Planet: Too Big To Fail.'

If you're still wondering why XR & co. focus on fossil fuels, it's all about facilitating a transition to #NaturalCapital to benefit the bankers.

Watch the film at https://t.co/SGozOsyn3w https://t.co/6ZhB1tYLhm
— Stop WWF's New Deal For Nature 🦉 (@nodealfornature) August 24, 2021

Wednesday, May 19, 2021

Regenerative Agriculture and Water Retention

“Every drop of moisture is even more precious than it used to be. You want to do everything you can to make sure your ground is capable of absorbing water.” https://t.co/j5UvwfzTf7
— Civil Eats (@CivilEats) May 18, 2021

As the west faces a drought emergency, some ranchers are restoring grasslands to build water reserves. https://t.co/j5UvwfzTf7 pic.twitter.com/ZIGeoGvqRk
— Civil Eats (@CivilEats) May 18, 2021

Tuesday, May 18, 2021

Who Controls the IEA?

In a huge shift, @IEA today published an ambitious scenario that would limit warming to 1.5°C. The scenario clearly shows there's no room for new oil and gas production @fbirol #FixTheWEO #climatechange #COP26 https://t.co/mWHgxek0Mb
— Tim Jackson (@ProfTimJackson) May 18, 2021

Tuesday, May 11, 2021

What Future?

Drilled wells provide nearly half of the water American farmers use to irrigate their crops. Many are now at risk of going dry. https://t.co/N7ucxoFn5s
— Modern Farmer (@ModFarm) May 11, 2021

China has enormous demand for beef and now two of its biggest suppliers are seeing declining production and exports.

"So that's just going to further escalate the price of global beef into 2021." https://t.co/uPTMV6BbS3
— Jay Bart (@SimmonsBart) May 11, 2021

"...there is a growing contingent of #organic farmers making their systems work without tillage, or with tillage implemented in a rare, responsible way."

Check out this article from our very own Sam Malriat!#regenerativeagriculture #organicagriculture https://t.co/xfhz3qubUi
— Rodale Institute (@RodaleInstitute) May 11, 2021

Tuesday, April 13, 2021

Resource Depletion as a Cause of Collapse

How Resource Depletion Leads to Collapse. The Story of a Lost Kingdom https://t.co/BG1iYK3LWM pic.twitter.com/K6AWuXoAqr
— Resilience.org (@buildresilience) April 13, 2021

Wednesday, December 23, 2020

An Eco-Marxist Critique of the Critique of Degrowth

Interesting eco-Marxist 'critique of the critique'. Good to see more left questioning of common property regimes, which are not a panacea, as I argue in #ASmallFarmFuture (& indeed as Elinor Ostrom herself argued!)https://t.co/BXou381kXT @g_kallis
— Chris Smaje (@csmaje) December 19, 2020

Saturday, December 05, 2020

An Unsustainable American West

"It is inevitable, now, that large amounts of water will have to leave agriculture in order to sustain cities and suburbs in the far-drier future; the question is simply whether it can be done in a way that keeps agriculture on the landscape." https://t.co/wtx2aPXXci
— Liz Crampton (@liz_crampton) December 4, 2020

Thursday, October 22, 2020

What Peak Lithium? What Energy Considerations?

https://t.co/zNfu1j8nvu lithium is the oil of the 21st century , these new EVs will crush ICE cars much quicker than expected https://t.co/zNfu1j8nvu
— ctindale (@ctindale) October 21, 2020

Monday, April 16, 2018

Informed Commentary Required

Breitbart: World View: Japan Finds ‘Semi-Infinite Supply’ of Rare Earth Minerals in Its Territorial Waters

So what is required for the efficient mining/extracting of these minerals from the ocean? How much energy would be needed?

Friday, April 10, 2015

A Chastisement Justly Deserved

Drought: California taking sweeping steps to conserve water

The Silver Lining in the California Drought
Worst Drought in 1,000 Years Predicted for American West
Parched California Will Get no Relief from Drought

John Derbyshire: Arithmetic on the West Coast
California
Our response to California's drought shows America at work to enrich the 1%
Don't mention the immigration
Victor Davis Hanson, The Scorching of California: How Green extremists made a bad drought worse

From last year: California mega-droug could last more than a century

Aunty Entity is coming! Water wars!

Thursday, May 01, 2014

John Michael Greer's Latest Book

Post by New Society Publishers.

Sunday, February 16, 2014

Can suburbia be saved in California?

Given that we will have a severe drought this year, what sort of impact will water restrictions have on those people who have gardens and rely upon them for a substantial amount of their food? The question of whether suburbia can be salvaged in a post-peak oil age has been answered by various people - have those who claim it can be looked at the question of water? Without taking Divine Providence into account, What is the carrying capacity of California if these drought conditions are the norm for several decades or more? Are there too many people living in the Bay Area for it to be sustainable?

Would state/federal assistance and subsidies be given to all farmers and gardeners equally? Or would Industrial Ag be the main beneficiary, because the national welfare is at steak. (California produces much of the food that the rest of the country eats, after all.) What would be the response of state and local governments if more people had to resort to gardening in order to survive? (Though it is probably more likely that the on-going exodus from California would increase in size first.)