Tag Archives: catastrophe

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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Permacrisis: Shipping

Posted on April 13, 2023 by borderslynn

If we want to look at human activity accelerated to the point of destruction, let’s look at the tragedy of the Mediterranean. https://sciencing.com/animals-mediterranean-sea-8537277.html TRADECHINA In Greece’s largest port of Piraeus, China is the boss Kaki Bali 10/30/2022October 30, 2022 Since … Continue reading →

Posted in anthropocene | Tagged barges, billionaire, black water, cargo instability, catastrophe, container shipping, cruise ships, dying planet, ecology, investment, marine life, migrants, money, naval shipping, responsibility, sea deaths, sewage treatment, Shipping, supertrawlers, toxic waste, trade | Leave a comment

Respecting Borders?

Posted on April 11, 2023 by borderslynn

In 2016, Ann Pettifor wrote, in her book The Production of Money, that if we allow the banking system to continue with no progressive changes, then: The recurring financial crises of the last four decades will roll on relentlessly and … Continue reading →

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What we know about industrial growth – and it isn’t good.

Posted on February 20, 2023 by borderslynn

Zach Wichter wrote an article in the New York Times (June 20, 2017) entitled “Too Hot to Fly? Climate Change May Take a Toll on Flying.” He pointed out that when temperatures get too high, the aerodynamic that allow planes … Continue reading →

Posted in anthropocene | Tagged Arctic Ice, Arctic Ice retreating, catastrophe, consequences, Farming, flight cancellations, flights grounded, food insecurity, fossil fuel use increase, growth priority, heat stricken airports, high temperatures, permafrost melt, plane aerodynamics, suffering planet | Leave a comment

Human existence has weaponised the environment

Posted on August 27, 2022 by borderslynn

David Wallace – Wells, author of The Uninhabitable Earth: A Story of the Future, tells us a truth we must, by now, all understand. He says it is “…the end of normal” because ” we have already exited the state … Continue reading →

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