Dismantle Civilisation

More great insights from Sharon Astyk. Ponzi schemes are illegal, but what is our economic system, or how we are treating the ecology, other than a giant Ponzi scheme, where today is being paid for by tomorrow. Crazy.
This point I’ve written about a number of times - but somehow I’d never quite fully grasped the … Read more »

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A film about gas flaring in Nigeria.
Shell explains how they tackle gas flaring in a recent article titled “The elusive goal to stop flares“. Shell has been saying that the problem with stopping flaring in Nigeria is that the Nigerian government has failed to fund the huge investments required to collect the gas. Now … Read more »

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Says an article on New Scientist.
The future may not smell too rosy – it may lie in sewage. As cities and industries suck up ever more of the world’s scarce water resources, agriculture is destined to rely increasingly on recycling the contents of urban sewers, according to a new international study of “wastewater agriculture”.
The good … Read more »

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Paranoid? We don’t think so. Conspiracy? Well, no, its just a system that engineers us all to think the same, put money before truly good things like health, community, fun, joy and love, and rewards the people who subscribe to this worldview the most with positions of power, privilege and wealth.
As Mike Adams, on Natural […] Read more »

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A Mother Jones article, by Josh Harkinson, gives a simple explanation of the different methods of oil production. As conventional oil gets harder to find and extract, the oil addicts have even worse methods that could be used to acquire oil products - but to do so would be madness in the face of climate […] Read more »

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Ecologist article by Peter Bunyard, deconstructs the myth of nuclear power as an energy source that necessarily results in low greenhouse gas emissions. Haven’t we been here before?
And, if we are going to be serious about substituting nuclear power for fossil fuel powered electricity generation in the world, so as to make a difference, we would […] Read more »

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How U.S. farming policy leads to ‘dead zones,’ huge marine areas where nothing can grow, by Kent Garber.
Each spring, the cycle of death begins anew. Nitrogen and phosphorus, leached from fertilizer, pass from farmland into streams, from streams into rivers—the Mississippi, the Potomac, the Susquehanna—and then, finally, into some of the country’s great bodies of […] Read more »

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A terrifying article from Alternet.
Meanwhile, overfishing has created some 150 “dead zones” — oxygen-free patches of ocean that can sustain no life — around the world: Some of these patches, Grescoe tells us forebodingly, “are now as large as Ireland.” In search of seafloor-dwelling species such as the trendy monkfish — long ignored, then popularized […] Read more »

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A recent brief article in the Ecologist lists a few of the toxins that we are exposed to, that make money for the companies manufacturing them.
It usually takes a major public health crisis to remove profitable toxins completely from marketplace. In the mean time most of us continue to be exposed to a variety of […] Read more »

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PVC (polyvinyl chloride) plastic, commonly referred to as vinyl, is one of the most hazardous consumer products ever created. PVC is dangerous to human health and the environment throughout its entire life cycle, at the factory, in our homes, and in the trash. Our bodies are contaminated with poisonous chemicals released during the […] Read more »

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