Tag Archives: fossil fuels

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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Farmers: regenerative farming and drought

Posted on November 29, 2024 by borderslynn

Sicily has been applying regenerative farming under the SIC.A.RI.B Project: https://www.sicarib.it/en/the-project aims to improve the biological and physical quality of Sicilian agricultural soils, through the implementation and adaptation of conservative or ‘organic regenerative’ farming techniques and technologies (intercropping, minimum tillage, … Continue reading →

Posted in anthropocene | Tagged catastrophe 2024, climate change, crop and livestock loss, desalination technology, drought hit, fossil fuels, israel, italy, Regenerative Farming, water management | Leave a comment

Gulf of Mexico: fossil fuel supply from 1940s to present day

Posted on October 9, 2024 by borderslynn

It seems ironic to see articles like this: https://www.marineinsight.com/know-more/major-oil-rigs-in-the-gulf-of-mexico and, knowing our refusal to move away from dependence on fossil fuels has increased ocean temperatures. We know the high temperatures of the water in the Gulf are causing the intensification … Continue reading →

Posted in anthropocene | Tagged best practise, climate change, displaced people, extreme weather, Florida, fossil fuels, gas, homelessness, Hunters Point, hurricane withstanding homes, meeting the needs, net zero living, no insurance, oil, poverty, profits from fossil fuel industry, responsibility of industry, victims, vulnerable people | Leave a comment

El Nino 2023 to 2024: Cocoa Beans, Chocolate shortage

Posted on October 7, 2024 by borderslynn

El Niño—the warm phase of the El Niño-Southern Oscillation (ENSO), our planet’s single largest natural source of year-to-year variations in seasonal climate—has been disrupting climate in the tropics and beyond since May 2023, likely contributing to many months of record-high global ocean temperatures, … Continue reading →

Posted in anthropocene | Tagged adapting to change, climate, crop failure, drought, el niño, floods, food insecurity, fossil fuels, increasing prices, job losses, la Niña, opportunities, oscillations, transitional, warming planet | Leave a comment

Higher elevations and Climate change

Posted on October 3, 2024 by borderslynn

The higher you live, the more likely you are to experience impacts of climate change, as these impacts are increasing at a more rapid rate in recent years than human experience can adapt to. I only live 900ft above sea … Continue reading →

Posted in anthropocene | Tagged Appalachians, Asheville, climate change, danger, devastation, ecology, ecosystems, flooding, fossil fuels, glacier melting, hurricane Helene, lush environments, mountain rivers, mountains, threat, warming oceans, windward side | Leave a comment

Green, green grass of home

Posted on June 11, 2024 by borderslynn

In the book, ‘Before It’s Gone’ by Jonathan Vigliotti, I read of the consequences of extensive loss of whole communities in Western States of America, plus the memorable loss of the old community of Lahaina in Hawaii, due to out … Continue reading →

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Finite Resources: land grabs – is it all about oil?

Posted on December 30, 2023 by borderslynn

As we humans covet what fossil fuels still lie in the ground, we literally battle to obtain them, no matter what doom laden messages COP28 might proclaim about incurring a planet on fire. Apparently we are now ‘transitioning’ away from … Continue reading →

Posted in anthropocene | Tagged banking investments, Chevron, climate change, conflict, death and destruction, demand and supply, fossil fuels, genocide, human greed, human rights, industry, inhumanity, mediterranean, murder, oil extraction, plastic, refining applications, scandal, Shell, war, warming planet | Leave a comment

Loss

Posted on September 1, 2023 by borderslynn

I begin by quoting a paragraph from the newsletter of Butterfly Conservation: Sadly, as our State of Butterflies 2022 reported earlier this year, 80% of butterfly species have decreased since the 1980’s – this drop is telling us that our … Continue reading →

Posted in anthropocene | Tagged Amazon forest, ban oil, biodiversity, Ecuador, fossil fuels, guardians, human rights, indigenous people, law, oil DRILLING, persecution, pristine land, protection of wilderness | 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 →

Posted in anthropocene | Tagged climate change, conflict, emissions, finite resources, fossil fuels, markets, mining, Nuclear Power, reactors, risk, safety, threats, trade wars, uranium | Leave a comment

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