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Drill, baby, drill…..

Posted on September 20, 2025 by borderslynn

The United States, Saudi Arabia, and Russia are the leading producers of oil in the world. There are two major oil contracts that are closely watched by oil market participants. In North America, the benchmark for oil futures is West Texas … Continue reading →

Posted in anthropocene | Tagged Caribbean, conflict, crude, drilling for oil, emissions, end game, finite resource, fossil fuels, marine life, oceans, pollution, South America, war | Leave a comment

Climate change, sea levels rising, countries sinking

Posted on August 29, 2025 by borderslynn

In past blogs I have written about land which sank beneath the oceans after the Ice Age melt began over 10,000 years ago. Now the world knows the Arctic and Antarctic ice caps are melting and sea levels are rising … Continue reading →

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Data Centres Energy and Water Consumption: Do we ask too much of our planet?

Posted on May 29, 2025 by borderslynn

There is a website which provides information for 9752 data centres across the world. https://www.datacentermap.com/datacenters/ Why are data centres and data transmission networks important? Demand for digital services is growing rapidly. Since 2010, the number of internet users worldwide has … Continue reading →

Posted in anthropocene | Tagged Amazon, back up power, business, clean water usage, cloud computing, data Centres, data services, digitising, emissions, energy consumption, Essex, farmland, fuel sources, generator backup, glacier collapse, hyperscalers, Internet infrastructure, land use, location. security, low rainfall, Microsoft, national grid, permafrost melt, warming planet | 1 Comment

Al Gore, his speech at Climate Week

Posted on April 29, 2025 by borderslynn

April 2025, Climate Week, 77 year old Al Gore gave this speech which you can also see and hear on YouTube. Thanks to Robert Reich for reproducing this speech on Substack. It is abundantly clear, after only three months and … Continue reading →

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Benefiting People and Planet without further Decline

Posted on November 5, 2024 by borderslynn

I’m reproducing this current important article:

Posted in anthropocene | Tagged destruction of rainforest, ecology, ecosystems, emissions, food industry, harm from industrial activities, populations, protecting planet, scarce freshwater, supply and demand | 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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Humans unwittingly caused the Super Interglacial

Posted on November 9, 2023 by borderslynn

I do recommend you read The Human Planet: How we Created the Anthropocene as I find it enthralling. But anyone who has read any of my blogs will understand my enthusiasm for this material so well put together to provide … Continue reading →

Posted in anthropocene | Tagged Anthropocene effect, CO2, emissions, geology, global warming, golden spike, interglacial, orbis spike, overheating world, ppm measurements, super interglacial, too hot for life | Leave a comment

Panic and plans to u-turn: to build nuclear reactors

Posted on August 13, 2023 by borderslynn

Concern that we are, in the UK, resorting to reintroducing the building of 8 nuclear reactors: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-61010605 And in Sweden, they plan to build 10: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/aug/10/sweden-criticised-over-plan-to-build-at-least-10-new-nuclear-reactors And worldwide, this is the only plan humans have arrived at in order to … Continue reading →

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Nuclear Energy

Posted on August 12, 2023 by borderslynn

I am reproducing this article since my next blogs cover the issue of viability of building nuclear reactors to supply clean energy to minimise use of fossil fuels. I would encourage my readers to access the site and become knowledgeable … Continue reading →

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Start-up to Scale-up: Do No Harm

Posted on March 17, 2023 by borderslynn

Farmers might consider adding seaweed to the diet of their cattle because it will reduce the methane output by the animals by 80%! The research has been revealed in this article: https://theconversation.com/can-seaweed-save-the-world-well-it-can-certainly-help-in-many-ways-201459 But before we get too excited we must … Continue reading →

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