Archive for the ‘environment’ Category
Oil water and permanence
Australia is facing terrible water shortages on a continuing basis, due to climate change. We’re running out of fossil fuel, so we probably won’t be able to continue to make fertilisers in the same way, or to make heavy use of transport and refrigeration to ship food around the country out of season. This is [...]
Nemo sibi nascitur
Christopher Alexander was interviewed recently on radio in Australia. He mentioned that several years ago he had been appointed part of the planning approvals process for Pasadena housing units.
His contribution was to insist that the developers show how their proposal would benefit the larger unit - the street, suburb, or the city of Pasadena. This [...]
China’s water crisis
From The Anthropik Network:
According to hydrologists, government officers and industrial leaders, water and waste pollution is the single most serious issue facing China. Presently, one in three rural inhabitants lacks access to safe drinking water. The urban situation is not any more heartening. More than a hundred large cities are short of water and half [...]
Earth First! and the FBI
Edgar Jacobi: Heh. Well, you know that kind of cancer that you get better from eventually?
Rorschach: Yes.
Edgar Jacobi: Well, that ain’t the kind of cancer I got.
Judi Bari and Earth First!
In the 1980s some environmental activists, including Dave Foreman, in the western part of the United States began consider using direct action and even sabotage. [...]
Reply to the global warming sceptics
Greenhouse sceptics argue that the proponents of a human cause of global warming have not made a convincing case. They say we need to understand things better and rule out natural causes before we make costly changes to legislation. This attitude is based on bad science, and the consequences are serious.
No one disputes the basic [...]
