Tag Archives: fossil fuels

River PFAS pollution

Posted on September 20, 2025 by borderslynn

I am reproducing a Conversation article. It is sad that America has just reversed the magnificent decision to ban PFAS:

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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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Mexico, Venezuela, Canada and US warships – and oil

Posted on August 22, 2025 by borderslynn

Today I learned Mexico and Canada have devised new trade routes: Canada and Mexico are developing a trade route called the “Northern Corridor” to bypass U.S. tariffs, enhancing their economic ties and reducing reliance on the U.S. market. This corridor … Continue reading →

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Datacenters, bitcoin mining energy use:  hits availability of electricity and raises costs steeply

Posted on August 22, 2025 by borderslynn

Paul Krugman writes today on Substack: Placing tech companies in Pentagon: On June 13, 2025, the Army will officially swear in four tech leaders. Det. 201 is an effort to recruit senior tech executives to serve part-time in the Army Reserve … Continue reading →

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Ukraine ‘on the menu’ ?

Posted on August 9, 2025 by borderslynn

From a Ukrainian viewpoint, Lev Parnas writes (on Substack); And I ask: Is a newly broken America on the Putin menu too?

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Technological progress could have saved the planet

Posted on June 15, 2025 by borderslynn

I never knew, until I read Kara Swisher’s ‘Burn Book’, that Al Gore, when senator of Tennessee, played a key role which birthed the Internet. As a senator from Tennessee, Gore crafted and pushed through the “High Performance Computing and … Continue reading →

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Phase out fossil fuels: no choice

Posted on April 30, 2025 by borderslynn

I’m reproducing The Conversation newsletter which was emailed to me. It is a response to Tony Blair’s recent advice to not phase out fossil fuels with the Net Zero objective:

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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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Follow the Oil Pipelines

Posted on March 24, 2025 by borderslynn

Since the fall of the Berlin Wall, East Germans have never achieved parity with West German wealth generation. Disgruntled East Germans have raised the profile of right wing AfD political beliefs. Initially, the AfD distanced itself from far-right parties in … Continue reading →

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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 →

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