Category Archives: anthropocene

The human interaction evidential impact on Planet Earth

Boreal Forest (taiga):consequences of permafrost melt

Posted on June 26, 2024 by borderslynn

A starting point for understanding more about the ancient pristine carbon sink boreal forest of the northern hemisphere is to read through the following link: https://www.treehugger.com/fascinating-facts-about-the-boreal-forest-4858782 We humans are now into the final phase of destroying our planet, we are … Continue reading →

Posted in anthropocene | Tagged Boreal Forest, climate change, climate change denial, destruction, disregard of indigenous, earth, exploitation, freshwater, greed, guardianship, human financial gain, logging, permafrost melt, preservation, protection, respect, soil, taiga, wildlife extinction | Leave a comment

Factory farming industry and climate change

Posted on June 25, 2024 by borderslynn

Here in the UK factory farming was less common in the past, but it has grown just recently in the production of livestock. Typical campaign in the UK: “©CIWF OUR CAMPAIGNS FACTORY FARMING MAP FACTORY FARMS ARE RISING ACROSS THE … Continue reading →

Posted in anthropocene | Tagged apocalypse, climate change momentum, corporate lobbying, factory farming, land grabs, profit before people, threat to citizens | Leave a comment

Beaver Past and Present: Recovery of natural water balance

Posted on June 24, 2024 by borderslynn

Posted in anthropocene | Tagged beavers, dust bowl, ecosystem, human destruction, human error, hunting to extinction, hydro electric dams, hydrology, imbalance, land protection, protecting soil, rotation of crops, soil erosion, Vigliotti, water | Leave a comment

Building in Resilience to Climate Catastrophe

Posted on June 24, 2024 by borderslynn

After wildfires destroyed homes across California, innovative, but expensive, intensely fire-resistant homes have been designed. Some are already in place in the still sparsely rehomed community of Paradise. These are modular, pre clad built homes and 12 month round produce … Continue reading →

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Green, green grass of home

Posted on June 11, 2024 by borderslynn

In the book, ‘Before It’s Gone’ by Jonathan Vigliotti, I read of the consequences of extensive loss of whole communities in Western States of America, plus the memorable loss of the old community of Lahaina in Hawaii, due to out … Continue reading →

Posted in anthropocene | Tagged 1.5 degree limit, anti climate change lobbyists, carbon capture, carbon mapping, combustible, conservation, drought, fauna, flora, fossil fuel adverts, fossil fuels, grass, greenhouse effect, hat dome, heating world, Helheim glacier, nature, ocean warming, oceans conveyor belt., scotland, sea level rising, Thwaites glacier, trees, wildfires | Leave a comment

US: Social Democracy coinciding with Jim Crow

Posted on May 20, 2024 by borderslynn

In the US, after WWII, the way to peaceful coexistence between North and Southern States was to exclude any benefit to African Americans, despite their contribution during World War II. https://www.history.com/news/black-soldiers-world-war-ii-discrimination The Republican Right had been opposed to Franklyn D … Continue reading →

Posted in anthropocene | Tagged 1918 to 1950s, Africa, African Americans, American Dream, apartheid, British, complicit in human harm, democracy, discrimination, exclusion, FDR, French, human rights, israel, Jim Crow, Jordan, Kant, League of Nations, left vs right, marginalising, Palestinians, peace, peace vision, polarization, populism, Republicans, socialist, subjugation, utopia, war, welfare state, white supremacy, WW1, WWII | Leave a comment

Journalists in the Crosshairs

Posted on May 3, 2024 by borderslynn

Posted in anthropocene | Tagged awareness, historic, IDF, israel, journalists, live reporting, murder, Palestine, silencing truth, targeted killings, world press freedom day | 1 Comment

Spyware: Who gets targeted?

Posted on April 19, 2024 by borderslynn

Of the 50,000 phone numbers in the data, we had been able to verify, with multiple sources for each, the identities of more than 1,000 people from fifty countries. The count included more than 600 politicians and government officials, including … Continue reading →

Posted in anthropocene | Tagged amnesty international, AWS, capitalism, DarkMatters, data servers, Elbit Systems, greed, human suffering, illegal settlements, imprisoning citizens, israel, Israel vs Palestinians, journalism, Nimbus Project, Palestine, Pegasus, private intrusion as a service industry, profit before people, Security Lab, spyware, UAE, violence, wealth, yemen | Leave a comment

Jamal Kashoggi

Posted on April 12, 2024 by borderslynn

Many of us remember how Jamal Kashoggi was tortured to death in the most slow and medically precise way by a top Saudi surgeon with a team of assistants. It is believed MBS instructed this manner of death to the … Continue reading →

Posted in anthropocene | Tagged amnesty international, Azerbaijan, blackmail, corruption, human rights abuses, imprisonment, journalists, murder, NSO credentials, oppression, Rmenia, Saudi Arabia, spyware, truth to power, Vardanyan | Leave a comment

Pro Human Rights North African Journalists targeted by malware infection

Posted on April 4, 2024 by borderslynn

The Pegasus book (by Richard and Rigaud) describes the Kafkaesque experience of a young Moroccan investigative journalist, Omar Radi. June 22, 2020: Forbidden Stories posted a story of the Pegasus attack on Omar Radi…..2 days later, Omar was summoned to … Continue reading →

Posted in anthropocene | Tagged Amazigh, atlas mountains, autocrats, Berbers, dictators, earthquake region, exploitation, human rights, human water shortages, industrial water use, journalists, land grabs, malware, mining, Omar Radi, oppression, Pegasus phone infection, poor protection, profit before people, spyware | Leave a comment

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