eco-PANIQuiz for June 21-27: Funning the horror
Though provided weekly on our site, I only occasionally post these Pre-Apocalypse News and Information Quizzes here.But there are some good ones this week, which you might enjoy.
View ArticleOne year, two years ago in ecocollapse
I recently worked up a "see one year ago, two years ago" gizmo for the news story database underlying our "humoring the horror of environmental collapse" website.What's perhaps most alarming is how...
View Articleeco-PANIQuiz for week ending July 4: Laughing at danger
This week's Pre-Apocalypse News and Information Quiz might provide a bit of levity on this Monday.If you can't laugh, you can't learn.Did you hear the one about ballast water in the Mediterranean, and...
View ArticleOn the death of 17 chickens
Last night, we got the call from our nearish neighbor, who has the specially modified nail gun that shoots blunt force trauma at 80 psi.It was late afternoon -- "how about tonight?" she said.We were...
View ArticleEco-PANIQuiz for week ending Aug 8: GMOs, Toads, CO2, and Dams
As I've done other times, I'm reposting our weekly quiz -- some funny and scary stories during the last week. Enjoy!
View ArticleChortling the end of the world: this week's PANIQuiz
It was a tough week in Tomorrowland, where everyone is above average, because the averages keep plummeting "faster than expected."For a bit of Monday fun -- and for those 6 billion or so not paying...
View ArticleExpensive, inconvenient, and scratchy: solutions are easy
In response to a comment in a recent post of mine, I replied,"I think lots of us know what we have to do -- change radically -- but far too few are actually doing it. Problems abound, but so do...
View Article26 square miles of toxic cloud
and wait -- there's more!22 miles long, 1.2 miles wide and 650 feet tall -- about 60 stories -- 3000 feet underwater!That's no plume, that's a massive toxic cloud that shows no sign of abating. BP's...
View ArticleBioaccumulation: the gift that keeps on giving
Bioaccumulation.It's what's for dinner.And lunch, and breakfast. Its danger depends a bit on whether you're flora or fauna, insect or mammal, baby or oldster -- and, of course, what you've...
View ArticleRolling the dice with evolution
A new study by J. Alroy, just published in Science (subscription required for full text), has been getting some reporting by other sources. It's mildly entitled "The Shifting Balance of Diversity Among...
View Article350 eco-collapse jokes by 10/10/10 -- are you kidding?
When we heard about 350.org's 10/10/10 project a couple of months ago, we struggled to find one that was appropriate to our own project.Last week we had an epiphany, and we've launched an 11th-hour...
View ArticleToday the rain fell
Today the rain fell and the small barn roof was the timpani in the symphony of the rainToday the rain fell and the big barn roof thrummed like a thousand marching hobnail boots.
View ArticlePolitics: The Fashion Section (humor)
This season's in thing? Aggressive stance!It's not just a win, with extra-wide shoulders, very specific codpieces, and bald-man big-package whiteness, it's also causing conflagration on the...
View ArticleDDOS of WikiLeaks indicative of vast US hack
Correct me if I'm wrong, please.DDOS -- Distributed Denial of Service -- is what's been hammering WikiLeaks the last couple of days.That's when kajillions of requests for a server's webpage bombard a...
View Article"everything we do from now on matters."
As I've been doing daily for more than three years, this morning I was collecting news items documenting the ongoing environmental collapse (and adding punchlines) for the site I coedit.I ran across a...
View ArticleAnother chance with revolution
I watched -- and worked in the aftermath of -- the collapse of the Soviet empire in '89, '90, 91.I tried to encourage, at the time, through my tenuous links in politics and policy, a dramatic response...
View ArticleA Modest Environmental Proposal
In light of the long-term environmental consequences of fossil energy extraction (whether that be hydraulic fracturing, tar sands, mountaintop mining, offshore drilling), and the cost of protecting...
View Articledot-connecting, then and now
As we close in on the 10th anniversary of our national, idiotic swerve into terror incognita, a land where fear was the currency used to buy off rationality, I'm reminded of the dots that weren't...
View ArticleSo very Cosmopolitan
As an earnest and o-so-serious investigator of the ongoing environmental collapse, noted by few and bemoaned by only-a-few-more, I've recently realized that confronting the converging emergencies of...
View ArticleThanks, Hillary
I have little doubt that Hillary Clinton was fundamentally involved in the Saudi Arabian announcement today that women will be "allowed" to vote, hold office, and serve on advisory...
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