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Evolution and Climate Change Through the Lens of Power

We can exchange polluting technologies and processes for more benign ones, but as long as population and total consumption levels continue to grow, we are locked into a paradigm that's utterly at odds with nature's limits and balances. Resources will deplete, wastes will accumulate, and other species will be crowded out of existence.

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PODCAST: Band-Aid Town
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PODCAST: Band-Aid Town

Band-Aid Town, returns to the premise of the show: the absolute batsh*t-crazy (lack of) response to the enormous, urgent challenges of the climate emergency, the energy transition, an economic system that's destroying the prospects of a viable planet, and the growing racial and wealth divide.

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When we look at the crisis rationally, the only logical response is to declare a climate emergency
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When we look at the crisis rationally, the only logical response is to declare a climate emergency

People engaged in the climate debate are often bewildered by society's lack of response. How can we ignore such overwhelming evidence of an existential threat to social and economic stability?

VIDEO: Energy, money and technology – From the lens of the superorganism
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VIDEO: Energy, money and technology – From the lens of the superorganism

During Nate Hagens' #WEP2018 keynote, he discussed how all of our lives will be influenced by how we react to the coming era of harder to extract and more costly fossil fuels that will be combined with cleaner but less concentrated energy types.

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PODCAST: Heinberg interview on HEAL Utah
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PODCAST: Heinberg interview on HEAL Utah

Richard Heinberg talks with Matt Pacenza on the HEAL Utah podcast about peak oil, a once popular theory about diminishing fossil fuel reserves which he believes will again soon rear its head, despite recent market trends.

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AUDIO: Solar and wind in Vermont with David Blittersdorf of All Earth Renewables
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AUDIO: Solar and wind in Vermont with David Blittersdorf of All Earth Renewables

David Blittersdorf's passion for renewable energy and earth-friendly technology started early.

ORIGINAL REPORTING
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Hotter heat waves are sticking around as the planet keeps warming

Flood waters rising next to house boats.

Rising seas may erase land, but not national identity, legal experts say

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Old satellites vital to hurricane tracking will soon stop transmitting data

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Scientists call on UN to adopt bold ocean policies to combat climate and biodiversity threats

Green coral on a reef.

EU ocean protection plan draws fire for weak enforcement and lack of binding goals

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Wildfire smoke from Canada continues to choke U.S. cities as climate patterns worsen

CLIMATE
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Senate moves to gut clean energy tax credits as deal nears

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UN climate talks face growing backlash over corporate influence and stalled action