Is big agriculture holding New Zealand hostage?  A privilege to be interviewed alongside our legendary economist Geoff Bertram https://www.publicinterest.nz/undercurrents-ep-9-is-big-agriculture-hol...

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We are facing multiple existential crises not just climate and all are symptoms of overshoot. There is no economic or techno-fix, ending growth is our only possible way to have liveable planet.

If i was standing on the side of the road flagging you down to warn the bridge ahead had collapsed would you scream past shouting get lost doomer?

STRESS & GRIEF AT THE END OF GROWTH Foreword Economic growth is generally understood as a process that delivers a material betterment of living standards over time. But growth has two other vir…

Techno fantasies will not bring back pre-industrial climates

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Bernard Hickey talks with Mike Joy and Catherine Knight about food security and the Reality of Everything conference coming up at Vic Uni on June 26

Bernard Hickey talks with Mike Joy and Catherine Knight about food security and the Reality of Everything conference coming up at Vic Uni on June 26

Global human population has surpassed Earth’s sustainable carrying capacity, Bradshaw, Corey J A, Judge, Melinda A, Blumstein, Daniel T, Ehrlich, Paul R, Dasgupta, Aisha N Z, Wackernagel, Mathis, Weed...

"The president of the United States is clearly mentally unfit for office."

Dr Doom or how to avoid doom?

I hosted a 'Hoon' previewing The Reality of Everything symposium, examining the interconnected crises of climate change, energy, water & food constraints, economic instability & public health

From Miserable Pedagogies to Anthropocene Intelligence for Universities in the Meta-Crisis - Volume 41 Issue 5

A group of experts is pushing for a global assessment of avoidable climate risks to help inform governments and citizens.

A group of experts is pushing for a global assessment of avoidable climate risks to help inform governments and citizens.

I hosted a 'Hoon' previewing The Reality of Everything symposium, examining the interconnected crises of climate change, energy, water & food constraints, economic instability & public health

Making carbon neutral claims and trading in them by business is now big business. My tongue-in-cheek upcoming claim for offsets for choosing to not have children

Continued global heating could set irreversible course by triggering climate tipping points, but most people unaware

Are we in for a Bronze Age Collapse 2.0?

The conference began like any other.

Climate myopia is a real threat

What is the point of climate negations if they cannot even mention fossil fuels?

We are hurtling toward climate chaos. The planet's vital signs are flashing red. The consequences of human-driven alterations of the climate are no longer

In 1858, Charles Darwin received a letter from Alfred Russel Wallace explaining that natural selection was the driving force behind evolution. Darwin later said it struck him like “a bolt from the blu...

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Diet allows modest meat consumption and would also slash food-related climate emissions by half, says report by 70 leading experts from 35 countries

One of the most common reactions is that abandoning agriculture is tantamount to committing many billions of people to death, since the planet can’t support billions of hunter-gatherers—especially given the dire toll on ecological health already accumulated.