Category Archives: anthropocene

El Nino 2023 to 2024: Cocoa Beans, Chocolate shortage

Posted on October 7, 2024 by borderslynn

El Niño—the warm phase of the El Niño-Southern Oscillation (ENSO), our planet’s single largest natural source of year-to-year variations in seasonal climate—has been disrupting climate in the tropics and beyond since May 2023, likely contributing to many months of record-high global ocean temperatures, … Continue reading →

Posted in anthropocene | Tagged adapting to change, climate, crop failure, drought, el niño, floods, food insecurity, fossil fuels, increasing prices, job losses, la Niña, opportunities, oscillations, transitional, warming planet | Leave a comment

Higher elevations and Climate change

Posted on October 3, 2024 by borderslynn

The higher you live, the more likely you are to experience impacts of climate change, as these impacts are increasing at a more rapid rate in recent years than human experience can adapt to. I only live 900ft above sea … Continue reading →

Posted in anthropocene | Tagged Appalachians, Asheville, climate change, danger, devastation, ecology, ecosystems, flooding, fossil fuels, glacier melting, hurricane Helene, lush environments, mountain rivers, mountains, threat, warming oceans, windward side | Leave a comment

How to prevent birds colliding with windows

Posted on September 24, 2024 by borderslynn

Fatal Light Awareness Program (FLAP) Canada is a registered Canadian charity widely recognized as the pre-eminent authority on the bird-building collision issue. Each year in Canada, around 25 million migratory birds die as a direct result of collisions with buildings. We can … Continue reading →

Posted in anthropocene | Tagged bird protection, campaign, cities, cottages, declining bird populations, FLAP, photography, Toronto, windows that kill | Leave a comment

UK Butterfly Emergency

Posted on September 19, 2024 by borderslynn

I just photographed a Peacock and a Red Admiral on my Autumn Glory. In previous years there could be at least 12 to 20 on this plant. These two are the highest count in a day for this year. I … Continue reading →

Posted in anthropocene | Tagged Africa, butterfly emergency, calamity, climate change, destruction, fossil fuel investment, global weather, human harm, neonicotinoids, pesticides, wildlife loss | Leave a comment

Latest from Global Witness

Posted on September 16, 2024 by borderslynn

Global Witness Press release | Sept. 10, 2024 More than 2,100 land and environmental defenders killed globally between 2012 and 2023 Share thisTweetShare FacebookShare LinkedIn Read this content in:FrançaisPortuguêsEspañol Land and environmental defenders Tuesday 10 September 2024, London – At least … Continue reading →

Posted in anthropocene | Tagged big business, climate crisis, criminals, deforestation, dictators, environment, greed, human rights, immoral corporates, killing of activists, mining, planet destruction, river pollution, violence | Leave a comment

UK Import/ Exports: Peanuts

Posted on September 5, 2024 by borderslynn

I purchase about 4 x 500g organic peanut butter (palm oil free, as it is toxic to dogs) a month. Last year, for a single jar of 500g, it was going up from £5 to £6 and this year it … Continue reading →

Posted in anthropocene | Tagged climate change, Covid cost, exports, food security, global trade, higher costs, imports, instability, less food, planning, resilience, resources, starvation, strategic thinking, unpredictability | Leave a comment

Save the Pacific and we will save ourselves

Posted on August 27, 2024 by borderslynn

Back in 2021 the alarm was raised about sinking of Pacific Islands 14 Islands Threatened by Climate Change By Katherine Butler Updated June 29, 2021 https://www.treehugger.com/island-nations-threatened-by-climate-change-4869275 One of the 14 was Kiribati: The Pacific Ocean holds the nation of Kiribati, … Continue reading →

Posted in anthropocene | Tagged carbon emissions, carbon footprint, catastrophic loss, climate change, human evacuations, sea level rises, sinking Pacific islands, WMO report | Leave a comment

US Sanctions and Economic Aggression

Posted on August 25, 2024 by borderslynn

Here I present more extracts from Saleh Mohsin’ excellent book, ‘Paper Soldiers’ which has helped me understand the history of ‘weak’ or ‘strong’ dollar through the eyes of US Treasury secretaries. The United States started freezing assets as a method … Continue reading →

Posted in anthropocene | Tagged aluminium, global repercussions, job losses, metals markets, mining, oligarch, Rusal, Saleh Mohsin, sanctions, share prices, strong or weak dollar, weaponisation of the dollar | Leave a comment

Blue collar or white collar? Is it universal?

Posted on August 17, 2024 by borderslynn

https://www.payscale.com/career-advice/salary-comparison-blue-collar-white-collar/ Reading the above, created in 2009, it is interesting to see their comparisons of salaries. This was as the world was trying to recover from the sub prime mortgage risk lending catastrophe which resulted in a global financial crisis. … Continue reading →

Posted in anthropocene | Tagged blue collar, careers, conflict, education, fulfilment, middle class, occupation, opportunity, oppression, poverty, salaries, trades, training, upper class, wealth, white collar | Leave a comment

A world not reliant on the dollar

Posted on August 15, 2024 by borderslynn

I wrote a blog, 8 years ago, trying to understand the impact of the Romans on our evolving monetary, military and trading history. https://borderslynn.com/2017/07/16/from-roman-empire-to-the-new-world Now I’ve reached the modern day, and I’m now asking about the mysteries of the global … Continue reading →

Posted in anthropocene | Tagged america, cheap imports, China, cooperation, debt, offshored cheap labour, opportunities, politics, Roman Empire, rumour mill, sanctions, securities, semantics, stock exchange, tariffs, threats, trade, treasury bonds, US Dollar, value for money, world economy | Leave a comment

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