Tag Archives: community

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

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

Poisonous Words spread by Elon Musk inciting hatred and violence

Posted on August 8, 2024 by borderslynn

We in Britain are proud of our tradition of welcoming and including immigrants in our society. The world has seen, through media outlets, how some poisoned hearts and minds have used social media to attack the fair and just immigration … Continue reading →

Posted in anthropocene | Tagged asylum seekers, billionaires, Britain, community, conflict, criminal behaviour, Elon Musk, far-right, fear, Government, hate, hate crimes, immigrants, laws, love, mobs, murder, one percent, playing God, police, protection, protest, Starmer, thugs, violence, war, wealth, welcoming migrants | Leave a comment

‘Euthanasia of the rentier’: understanding of the fundamentals of the monetary system

Posted on March 11, 2023 by borderslynn

From ‘The Production of Money’, by Ann Pettifor Keynes was ruthless in his approach to the subordination of the finance sector to the interests of wider society and actively campaigned for the ‘euthanasia of the rentier’. He regarded the love … Continue reading →

Posted in anthropocene | Tagged anthropocene, capitol control, central banks, city of london, community, ecology, financial transformation, high interest rates, inflation, integrity, Keynes, lobbying, monetary policy, offshore banking, poor lifting each other out of poverty, quantitative easing, rent, solutions, the few vs the many, toxic emissions, usury, vested interest, Wall Street | Leave a comment