Thursday Morning Links
This and that for your Thursday reading. – Andrew Gregory reports on new research showing that tens of millions of adults may already be facing long-term loss of smell and/or…
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It’s Earth Overshoot Day, 2022
Another Earth Overshoot Day is upon us. Funny how they keep showing up earlier each year. This year’s pitch is one partnership for the planet. Uh, yeah, sure. Overshoot –…
Wednesday Afternoon Links
Miscellaneous material for your mid-week reading. – David Adams examines the evidence that COVID-19 remains infectious far longer than assumed by politicized public health messaging. And Ted Raymond reports that…
Noooo, Say It Ain’t So. Lovelock, Dead at 103.
James Lovelock is dead. The legendary climate scientist, best known for his Gaia Hypothesis, died on his 103rd birthday. Fittingly, Lovelock died at home surrounded by family. Lovelock, who was…
Liberal, Tory, Same Old Murderous Story.
The theme of this year’s UN climate summit, COP27, will be adaptation, a very diplomatic way of saying what to do now that you’ve shit your pants. Adaptation is the…
Tuesday Morning Links
This and that for your Tuesday reading. – John Donne Potter discusses how an increase in reinfections is exacerbating the risk of long COVID. And Mark Kekatos reports that numerous…
Monday Afternoon Links
Miscellaneous material to start your week. – Sasha Warren reports on new research showing that people suffering from long COVID may not be fully clearing the coronavirus from their systems…
Beyond Growth, a New Economic Paradigm
In today’s world of overpopulation, overdevelopment and ecological overshoot, chasing constant growth is wilful lunacy. Yet our leaders, like those of every developed country, are obsessed with growing GDP, Gross…
On Being Sold Down the River.
Normal is a word that’s lost most of its meaning. We imagine that it’s just a matter of time until Covid-19 is just a bad memory allowing a “return to…
Bannon Guilty
Donald Trump’s on-again/off-again Grigori Rasputin, Steve Bannon, has been convicted of contempt of Congress. Bannon was found guilty of both contempt counts. He’s heading for the Greybar Hotel as both…
Observations On Strokes and Dementia
What follows is deeply personal. This is my way of processing some of the experiences I have had from my Mother’s first stroke event to present. It is, in a…
UK Breaks 40C. Brits Warned More to Come.
It’s toasty in Great Britain. Heathrow hit 40.2 Celsius, a national heat record. Where there’s heat, there’s fire. The London fire brigade has a Major Incident in response to a…
Humanity Heading for "Collective Suicide"
The warnings just get ever more dire even as our leaders show an incredible capacity to ignore them. UN Secretary General, Antonio Guterres, says humanity is on the fast lane…
Saturday Afternoon Links
Assorted content for your Saturday reading. – Jennifer Lee reports on the newly-released documents confirming that Alberta’s lifting of COVID protections was purely a matter of political oneupmanship rather than…
Musical interlude
Kalax feat. Pyxis, Jay Diggs – Out of Time
Friday Morning Links
Assorted content to end your week. – Ricardo Duque Gabriel et al. examine how the costs of austerity extend beyond the human toll of diminished well-being to include the undermining…
Monbiot Wins Orwell Award for Journalism
Guardian enviro-scribe, George Monbiot, has been awarded the George Orwell award for journalism. The prize is awarded for commentary or reporting that comes closest to meeting the ambition of George…