That Was Easy: In Just 60 Years, Neoliberal Capitalism Has Nearly Broken Planet Earth | Jon Queally

A pair of new studies show how various forms of human activity, driven by a flawed economic system and vast consumption, is laying waste to Earth's natural systems The conclusion that the world's dom ...

2014 Was Hottest Year on Earth in Recorded History | NY Times

Jan. 16, 2015 (New York Times) -- Last year was the hottest in earth’s recorded history, scientists reported Friday, underscoring scientific warnings about the risks of runaway emissions and undermin ...

Citing Next Generations, Lawsuits Demand Courts Recognize 'Mind-Blowing' Climate Impacts | Deirdre Fulton

"There are laws of nature that we have to comply with," says legal scholar on final episode of Moyers & Company. "And those laws are supreme." "Climate is not just an environmental issue," professor ...

This is Your Ocean on Acid | Mickey Z.

Photo credit: Mickey Z. Mickey Z. -- World News Trust “I don’t know how to save the world. I don’t have the answers or The Answer. I hold no secret knowledge as to how to fix the mistakes of generati ...

The Earth Baked in Record Fashion This Summer | Brian K. Sullivan

Sept. 19, 2014 -- According to the National Climatic Data Center, the Earth had its warmest June through August on record, Bloomberg News reports. The combined land and ocean temperature for the glob ...

Dark Age America: The Rising Oceans | John Michael Greer

Credited to ideas.etublogs.usj.edu.lbAug. 6, 2014 (Archdruid Report) -- The vagaries of global climate set in motion by our species’ frankly brainless maltreatment of the only atmosphere we’ve got, t ...

BOOKS: Wellsprings -- A Fable of Consciousness | William T. Hathaway

Climate Change Requires Consciousness Change William T. Hathaway -- World News Trust May 5, 2014 To paraphrase Mark Twain, everyone talks about climate change but no one does anything about it. No on ...

Panel’s Warning on Climate Risk: Worst Is Yet to Come | Justin Gillis

Greenland's immense ice sheet is melting as a result of climate change. CreditKadir van Lohuizen for The New York Times March 30, 2014 -- YOKOHAMA, Japan (New York Times) -- Climate change is alread ...

2030 is the New 2012 | John Michael Greer

Jan. 8, 2014 (Archdruid Report) -- Last week’s discussion of failed predictions in the peak oil movement inevitably touched on the latest round of claims that the world as we know it is going to come ...

The Song of the Snallygaster | John Michael Greer

Jan. 1, 2014 (Archdruid Report) -- I've noticed, over the past few years, a growing lack of enthusiasm in the formerly raucous festivities that once marked the end of one year and the beginning of an ...

Climate-Change Summary And Update | Guy McPherson

Guy McPhersonEditor's Note: Here are a few links discussing Guy McPherson's ideas about the climate. John Michael Greer dismisses him as a crank. Judge for yourself. --Francis Goodwin https://worldne ...