Category Archives: anthropocene

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Nader: Gaza Body Count

Posted on February 24, 2025 by borderslynn

I’m reproducing the newsletter of Ralph Nader, 22nd Feb 2025:

Posted in anthropocene | Tagged america, collective punishment, cover up, destruction, disinformation, Gaza deaths, genocide, Hamas, IDF, israel, journalists, lies, media, Palestine | Leave a comment

New World Experiment in Democracy

Posted on February 17, 2025 by borderslynn

This diagram below has been helpfully put together because digitisation enables such quick overviews. Thanks to digitisation we have given away our personal information believing it was held securely, TRUSTING the systems which held the data. It has now been … Continue reading →

Posted in anthropocene | Tagged abuse of power, administrations, alliances, arrogance, contempt, cyber security, disdain, innocence, Munich, power, public trust, responsible protection, securing data, testing laws of the land, wrecking bar | Leave a comment

Insult upon insult

Posted on February 9, 2025 by borderslynn

Each of us has either lost our homeland, knows of family who has, or doesn’t know their ancestors did so in recent centuries. But all of us have origins from thousands of years ago back in pre- Christian times, when … Continue reading →

Posted in anthropocene | Tagged america, Gaza, homeland, Jews, land grabs, occupation, Palestine, real estate, refugee in own land, terrorist, wealth | Leave a comment

Ultimate Sin

Posted on February 9, 2025 by borderslynn

So now I’m reading ‘Burn Book’, by Kara Fisher. As I was passionate about computers in education back in 1981, this book has great resonance for me. Kara Fisher began as a journalist, intrigued by the young start-ups in Silicon … Continue reading →

Posted in anthropocene | Tagged Brutality, capitalism, cruelty, disrupters, globalisation, human behaviour, human suffering, influence, politics, silicon valley, technology, US, vulnerability | Leave a comment

Eurasian World History

Posted on February 5, 2025 by borderslynn

I have a 1978 copy of The Times Atlas of World History. I’ve taken these photos of some of its pages: I treasure this book. Its then editor was Geoffrey Barraclough, formerly Stevenson Research Professor of International History, University of … Continue reading →

Posted in anthropocene | Tagged atlas, cartography, description, early civilisations, education, Eurasia, faith, genetics. ethnicity, international, Phoenicians, pre Christianity, research, world history | Leave a comment

Captagon

Posted on January 14, 2025 by borderslynn

After Assad fled, one news item stayed in my head. A warehouse filled to the ceiling with the drug, Captagon. The comment was that this was the favourite drug of Jihadists. So today I found out more, reading this link: … Continue reading →

Posted in anthropocene | Tagged Assad, brain damage, Brutality, butchery, cannabis, captagon, drug fuelled barbarism, drug money laundering industry, drugs, Hamas, human killing machines, India, ISIS, israel, jihadists, ketamine, Lebanon, Maronites, massacres, Nigeria, opioids, Palestinian refugees, Phalanges, Pharma, religious factions, RSF, Russia, Sahel, sudan, Syria, UK, ukraine, Wagner, war crimes, West Africa, youth addiction | Leave a comment

Damned if you do, damned if you don’t

Posted on January 12, 2025 by borderslynn

As fierce and unprecedented wildfires bring calamity to thousands of people, thousands of gallons of toxic retardant are dropped from special air tankers on the racing fires below to try to stop the fires spreading to valuable property. And, as … Continue reading →

Posted in anthropocene | Tagged air tankers, building in resilience, building materials, climate change, community, drought, emissions warming climate, eucalyptus tree fire risk, fire resistant homes, first responders, forests, fossil fuels, freshwater, Grenfell Tower, groundwater, human habitation, human vulnerability, hurricane force winds, inferno, insurance nonsense, nature, opportunities, pacific, plastics, portugal, retardant drops, Santa Ana winds, soil, threats, tree burning emissions, warming oceans, weather patterns, wild space, wildfires, wildlife | Leave a comment

Remembering Jimmy Carter

Posted on December 31, 2024 by borderslynn

As flags fly at half mast for 30 days in mourning the death of Jimmy Carter, who lived to an amazing age of 100 years, we are being reminded through the media of his landmark successes as a President, and … Continue reading →

Posted in anthropocene | Tagged 1978, anti semitism, Anwar Sadat, Camp David, egypt, IDF, israel, Jimmy Carter, KKK, Likud, Menachem Begin, Palestine, peace, Peace Accord | Leave a comment

Multi Hazard Catastrophe

Posted on November 30, 2024 by borderslynn

It is becoming common to have drought then flood as a repeating disaster, leaving no time for recovery or intervening built-in solutions. It is a bit late in the day, but research is appearing to analyse these dreadful events. The … Continue reading →

Posted in anthropocene | Tagged changing hydrology, climate change, community, cooperation, flooding followed by drought, focus, land reuse after catastrophe, Megadroughts, Multi Hazard events, rain impacts, related catastrophe, research, resilient planning, river networks, soil impacts, threats to freshwater supply, urban and rural impact | Leave a comment

Farmers: regenerative farming and drought

Posted on November 29, 2024 by borderslynn

Sicily has been applying regenerative farming under the SIC.A.RI.B Project: https://www.sicarib.it/en/the-project aims to improve the biological and physical quality of Sicilian agricultural soils, through the implementation and adaptation of conservative or ‘organic regenerative’ farming techniques and technologies (intercropping, minimum tillage, … Continue reading →

Posted in anthropocene | Tagged catastrophe 2024, climate change, crop and livestock loss, desalination technology, drought hit, fossil fuels, israel, italy, Regenerative Farming, water management | Leave a comment

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