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Learning from our mistakes

Posted on July 3, 2023 by borderslynn

One thing we hear often said by authorities after a disaster is, ‘let us learn from our mistakes and work to ensure this can never happen again.’ Earthquakes ………a map of the world, with the locations of the biggest earthquakes … Continue reading →

Posted in anthropocene | Tagged avoidable death, climate change, common sense, construction, dams, earthquakes, engineering, excess death, flooding, freshwater demand, local knowledge, prevention, tragedy, water shortages | 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 →

Posted in anthropocene | Tagged alliances, catastrophe, climate change, conflict, debt, diplomacy, history, infrastructure, invasions, monetary systems, nomads, peace, trade, violence, war | Leave a comment

Credit Line

Posted on March 23, 2023 by borderslynn

Ann Pettifor explains: …after the Second World War, the finance sector recruited (directly or indirectly) economists, journalists and politicians to reverse Keynes’s monetary theories and policies….. [Thank the London School of Economics for much of the defamation of Keynes from … Continue reading →

Posted in anthropocene | Tagged african banks, asian banks, bank collapse, banking sector, central banks, climate change, ecosystem, elite, european banks, financial sector, innovation, interest rates, investment, Keynes, LIBOR, London School of Economics, monetarism, poverty, start ups, taxpayers | Leave a comment

Desalination, long term solution to Drought

Posted on December 26, 2022 by borderslynn

https://www.worldatlas.com/articles/countries-who-rely-on-desalination.html From the above map we learn Saudi Arabia has the most desalination plants in the world: “eight plants using the reverse osmosis technology and 12 using the multi-stage distillation process. The country has the largest floating desalination plant in … Continue reading →

Posted in anthropocene | Tagged climate change, conflict, desalination, desertification, drought, famine, food security, multi-stage flash, reverse osmosis, solutions | 2 Comments

Wobbly polar vortex threat

Posted on December 25, 2022 by borderslynn

How a wobbly polar vortex brings cold weather “Judah Cohen, a climatologist at MIT and the director of seasonal forecasting at Atmospheric and Environmental Research, told Newsweek that, as average global temperatures rise, winter temperatures are increasing at a slower rate than … Continue reading →

Posted in anthropocene | Tagged arctic warming, climate change, energy outages, extreme weather, flooding, food insecurity, hypothermia, polar vortex, road accidents, sudden freezing, threat to life, uninhabitable earth, wildlife deaths, winter storm | Leave a comment

Wines and Spirits Industries: the realities of climate change

Posted on December 6, 2022 by borderslynn

Around the world people are taking on the challenges of climate change. If they are to continue in their historic industries they must experiment but time is not on their side. Cooperation and sharing knowledge globally is a necessity to … Continue reading →

Posted in anthropocene | Tagged biodegradable, bottles, climate change, Colorado River, levees, oceans, plastics, proactive solutions, sea levels rising, shrinking freshwater supplies, spirits, water use, Wine | Leave a comment

Fight the cause of the refugee crisis

Posted on November 5, 2022 by borderslynn

Use satellite imagery and track the problems and build solutions: https://www.planet.com/

Posted in anthropocene | Tagged asylum, authoritarian regime, child abuse, climate change, conflict, cruelty, discrimination, drought, drugs, environment, exploitation, famine, human rights, inhuman living conditions, low paid work, male domination, misogyny, no freshwater, persecution, poverty, rape, rebuilding, rehoming, replanting, rescue, satellite imagery, sustainable living, terror, torture, tracking, trafficking, unsanitary conditions, value every human, violence | Leave a comment

“The nation that destroys its soil destroys itself”

Posted on October 14, 2022 by borderslynn

“The nation that destroys its soil destroys itself,” Franklin D. Roosevelt wrote in 1937 following catastrophic dust storms and flooding in the United States. He was right. Soil deserves respect. A medium for plant growth, a source of nutrients, a … Continue reading →

Posted in anthropocene | Tagged agriculture, animals, carbon capture, climate change, fertilizer, food security, insects, land protection, life, organic, soil, survival | Leave a comment

Fruit and nut yields threatened by warmer winters

Posted on September 28, 2022 by borderslynn

As winters warm in some well know fruit growing regions of the world, crop yield can be severely reduced, even wiped out. See: https://climatechange.lta.org/winter-chill/ In the US state of Georgia, famous for its peaches, 85% of the 2018 crop was … Continue reading →

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Wheat production impacted by warmer winters

Posted on September 26, 2022 by borderslynn

The United States Department of Agriculture has advised farmers that plant hardiness zones must shift 100 miles north. They expect this shift will become 300 miles by 2050. The areas which are left behind will become unable to grow wheat … Continue reading →

Posted in anthropocene | Tagged climate change, declining wheat production, famine, global wheat growers, latitude between 30 and 60 degrees north, Russia, ukraine, warmer winters, wheat futures, Wheat origins | Leave a comment

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