Contents Notes Volume of Water Surface Area of Water Uses / Demand for Water Notes Here are convenient sources of information. One is Wikipedia, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Water_distribution_on_Earth . Use its references where possible, not Wikipedia itself ( see also https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:List_of_citogenesis_incidents ). Volume of Water Each of the 7.5 billion people alive in 2017 would have as their … Continue reading Global Slice 🌍: Water
Contents (this page) Assumptions and Biases Units Aluminium and Bauxite Coal Cobalt Copper Gold Iron Land Land and Ocean Ownership Lithium Oil Platinum Potash Rare Earths Silver Uranium Water Wealth Zinc The following pages are admin pages, not topic pages to be published: To Do Spreadsheets and Other Data
Today the news fed me two tipping points for the price of one : Amazonia and plastics. How do climate tipping points happen? Two ways. Gradually, then suddenly.”
European Union (EU) – Spain – Fisheries – Tuna – Overfishing – African Union – Senegal – Fishery
also see >chemical, water neurosciencenews.com 15-3-2023 Hidden Danger in Your Groundwater? Widely Used Chemical Linked to 500% Increased Risk of Parkinson’s Summary – Trichloroethylene (TCE), a widely used chemical used in decaffeinated coffee, metal degreasers, and dry cleaning clothes formulas, has been linked to a 500% increased risk of Parkinson’s disease. Source: University of Rochester … Continue reading POLLUTION various
-gaiageld- this page/post see also >Greenwashing >Growth! What Growth? > Pollution >Sustainability Plastic waste? In the 1970’s economists typically dismissed the “Limits to Growth” report as “worthless science” and “ignorance masquerading as knowledge”. Robert Solow’s possibly illogical but impressively complex maths of “Eternal Growth” obscured his own ignorant limits of imagination. “Solow and colleagues never considered outputs—waste … Continue reading Infinite Plastic Pollution Meets Systemic Inelasticity
goodreads.com 7-2022 “The Blue Commons: Rescuing the Economy of the Sea ” by Guy Standing ‘A landmark book… The Blue Commons is at once a brilliant synthesis, a searing analysis, and an inspiring call to action.’ – David Bollier ‘With remarkable erudition, passion and lyricism, Guy Standing commands the reader to wake up to the threat … Continue reading THE COMMONS – PUBLIC GOOD
POLLUTION – air food plastic etc air https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20190415-how-air-pollution-is-doing-more-than-killing-us https://theconversation.com/air-pollution-over-three-billion-people-breathe-harmful-air-inside-their-own-homes-152986 food https://slate.com/technology/2021/01/gmo-movement-changed-my-mind.html plastic >> plastic post theguardian.com 5/2021 Twenty firms produce 55% of world’s plastic waste, report reveals – Plastic Waste Makers index identifies those driving climate crisis with virgin polymer production https://www.bbc.co.uk 17/5/2021 UK plastic waste being dumped and burned in Turkey, says GreenpeaceBy … Continue reading POLLUTION PLASTIC
James LOVELOCK’s web site – the international homepage smithsonianmag.com 8-2022 The British scientist and inventor who said Earth is a self-regulating system died earlier this summer on his 103rd birthday – by Will Sullivan economist.com 8-2022 Farewell to James Lovelock – The inventor of the Gaia hypothesis dies, aged 103 In 2020 james lovelock told the Observer, a … Continue reading James Lovelock – Gaia Hypothesis
natural resources – earth – energy – fossil fuels – mining – oceans – water medium.com/eco-news 7-2-2023 Race To The Bottom – Mining menace – by John Pearce The push for greater adoption of electric vehicles and other green energy adoption is creating demand for “rare earth” and other metals, which are often in conflict zones or under the control of autocratic regimes. As a … Continue reading MINING
all pages – new coneptuality caw’s basic concepts used in the social science narrative: human spectrum/agency+ aggregation: individual ID of a single human being <<< >>> global population decentralised mobilisation by propositional vote >string facilitates random conventions imagine the string is operating and generating a global vote of 75%plus saying yes to proposition 1 etc … Continue reading pagelist – re-edit
see also > historical economics – history of ideas, institutional, interdisciplinary Tomas Sedlacek hanser-literaturverlage.de Die Ökonomie von Gut und Böse Die meisten unterschätzen, wie tief die Ökonomie in der Kultur verwurzelt ist. Nicht so Tomas Sedlacek. Er behauptet: “In der Ökonomie geht es um Gut und Böse. Es geht um Menschen, die Menschen Geschichten über andere … Continue reading economic history
Vast early America There is no American history without the histories of Indigenous and enslaved peoples. And this past has consequences today Karin Wulf https://aeon.co/essays/why-the-history-of-the-vast-early-america-matters-today This perspective – seeing the Atlantic as both a venue and a connector – has fuelled new work on older subjects, such as the Puritan migration to New England in … Continue reading history US slavery indigenous
>carbon capture scientificamerican.com 1-3-2024 The False Promise of Carbon Capture as a Climate Solution – Fossil-fuel companies use captured carbon dioxide to extract more fossil fuels, leading to a net increase in atmospheric CO2 – By Naomi Oreskes Last December the leaders of the United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP28) in Dubai declared victory as the parties … Continue reading green techno – alternative, sustainable energy, products, production, technologies
a-z concepts aggregates – Hayek on Keynes ALT currencies deciphering crypto J Norrington CARS the COMMONS – PUBLIC GOOD COMPETITION COMMUNITARIANISM COOPS CRISIS next recession The Next Global Recession 2020 G. Salapa DEBT crisis Post Pandemic crisis DEMAND advertising metrics DOUGHNUT ECONOMICS Malaysia A A Rashid EARTH – land ECO CRISIS – Nature eco crisis … Continue reading a -z concepts + authors
>forests, deforestation, amazon, Brazil >commodifcation, commons, enclosure, financialisation, land, monetisation natural resources, gaia, earth – land, soil, fauna+flora earth – energy – fossil fuels – mining – oceans – water see also > theguardian.com/environment/2022/apr/22/climate-food-biodiversity-five-charts wired.com 17/12/2021 The Biodiversity Crisis Needs Its Net Zero MomentClimate change isn’t the only major crisis facing the world. We’re in the middle of a mass extinction, and we’re missing all of our … Continue reading natural resources, gaia, land, soil, fauna+flora
a-z concepts aggregates – Hayek on Keynes ALT currencies deciphering crypto J Norrington CARS the COMMONS – PUBLIC GOOD COMPETITION COMMUNITARIANISM COOPS CRISIS next recession The Next Global Recession 2020 G. Salapa DEBT crisis Post Pandemic crisis DEMAND advertising metrics DOUGHNUT ECONOMICS Malaysia A A Rashid EARTH – land ECO CRISIS – Nature eco crisis … Continue reading a-z concepts and authors
updates below itv.com/ 4/2021 A time-lapse video feature launched by Google Earth has drawn on nearly four decades of satellite imagery to vividly illustrate how the impact of humans and climate change have affected the planet. see also > climate updates 3-2024 theconversation.com 28-2-2024 Climate change: alarming Africa-wide report predicts 30% drop in crop revenue, … Continue reading ECO CRISIS – Climate
Contents Notes Gold Demand Gold Production Notes Ownership graphic https://visual.ly/community/Infographics/economy/who-owns-world-gold . Very good graphic: [ The below is from 10 minerals.docx ] Gold 50,000 tonnes, ac-cording to the US Geological Survey. 57,000 tonnes ac-cording to the De-partment of mines of Government of Western Australia Top 5 countries with the largest reserves: Australia 9,500 tonnes (17%)Russia … Continue reading Global Slice 🌍: Gold
wikipedia.org/Institutional_economics daviskedrosky.substack.com 20-12-21 (Douglass) North by Northwest (Europe) The History of Economic History, Part II – Davis Kedrosky …”As we noted last week, North was an apostle of the Cliometric Revolution in economic history. The Economic Growth of the United States, for example, was based on “the proposition that U.S. growth was the evolution of a … Continue reading Institutional economics
>tree planting, forestation theconversation.com/side-effects-of-expanding-forests-could-limit-their-potential-to-tackle-climate-change-new-study-224093 source: https://medium.com/@sherlockieee/the-most-awesome-climate-solutions-that-no-one-is-talking-about-743bb22aa232 Awesome climate solutions that no one seems to be talking about – by Ha Tran Nguyen Phuong Follow Climate & Software. https://sherlockieee.netlify.app/ aka Why we should be hopeful about the future. When we heard of climate change solutions, common things come up: Wind, solar and nuclear. Beyond Meat, Impossible … Continue reading ECO crisis – climate solutions
A year ago, when The Virus was still a fuzzy rumour, one was already plagued by the puzzle of the three zeros : the skeletal numbers of no interest and near nil inflation lined up for a danse macabre around the grave of zombie growth. Never seen this before. This is different. This can’t be … Continue reading Greta, Mnuchin and PlanB
Little Bill has lent his big billionaire voice to de-coupling, the idea that traditional capitalist growth can be cleansed of its polluting effects. Better than denial or obstruction? Absolutely. Every little helps. But de-coupling inside a political vaccuum is kids’ softplay. What matters in the adult world is the gravity of power. Just follow the money… … Continue reading Little Big Bill’s Techno Fix
Soft recession? Landing soft, feeling hard! 3-24 Tom Krebs, Isabella Weber: Hesitant price controls deflated German wages + living standards? 17-3-24 Angus Deaton: Allocation of scarce resources the wrong turn toward irrelevance? 3-24 Quantum ending naturalism? Goodbye, Richard Dawkins, and hello, Bishop Berkeley? 14-3-24 No-landing scenario is a “silly”& metrics are still flashing recession, says LaVorgna 14-3-24 … Continue reading Updates
source : https://www.independent.co.uk 27 August 2018 David Keys Archaeology Correspondent@davidmkeys Details of horrific first voyages in transatlantic slave trade revealed. Exclusive: As the world ignores the ignominious 500th anniversary of the buying and selling of slaves between Africa and the Americas, historians uncover its first horrific voyages Almost completely ignored by the modern world, this … Continue reading horrific first voyages in transatlantic slave trade – David Keys
<0> fossil fuels – big oil theguardian.com 8-3-2024 Oil industry has sought to block state backing for green tech since 1960s – Research shows industry lobbying against support for solar panels and electric cars while enjoying subsidies itself – by Ajit Niranjan …FuelsEurope, which has also fought support for electric vehicles for more than a … Continue reading NATURAL RESOURCES – fossil fuels- big oil
eco-crisis-footprint-updates here I am copping out of my CoP post. I am way off target. Instead of editing my article reviews I got lost in a meandering mishmash of a maybe essay on money, value and growth. Like “Growth! What Growth?” Trying to think (too) big was probably inspired by the Dawn of Everything. I’ve … Continue reading Cop-out CoP and the elephant in the room
