China’s Rapidly Retreating Glaciers Threaten Asia’s Water Supply - https://www.caixinglobal.com/2018-11-20/chinas-rapidly-retreating-glaciers-threaten-asias-water-supply-101349937.html
Bill Nye: We are not going to live on Mars, let alone turn it into Earth - https://www.usatoday.com/story/tech/science/2018/11/19/bill-nye-mars-were-not-going-live-there-make-like-earth/1905447002/
"...the fracking math doesn’t add up. They believe that if interest rates rise, thereby reducing the flow of cheap capital, the industry will collapse." - https://www.newyorker.com/podcast/political-scene/after-the-2008-financial-crisis-the-economy-was-fracked-up
Climate Change and the Savage Human Future - https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2018/11/16/magazine/tech-design-nature.html
A moon mission for the 21st century? Why not an Earth mission instead. We should apply the concept of a mission to develop and implement models for true sustainable communities, right here on earth, right now. The moon can wait. - https://medium.com/iipp-blog/a-moon-mission-for-the-21st-century-57c091283f76
Peak Oil, 20 Years Later: Failed Prediction or Useful Insight? - https://cassandralegacy.blogspot.com/2018/11/peak-oil-20-years-later-failed.html?m=1
Day of revolt leads to mass arrests in the UK as protest participants argue too many still don't "recognize the seriousness of our existential crisis" and almost nobody is doing enough to end humanity's wreckless assault on planet's living systems - https://www.commondreams.org/news/2018/11/17/because-good-planets-are-hard-find-extinction-rebellion-shuts-down-central-london
Lands Lost As India’s Coasts Are Ravaged By Climate Change - https://www.thequint.com/news/india/lands-lost-as-indias-coasts-are-ravaged-by-climate-change?utm_source=quora&utm_medium=referral
It's always a good time to review Donella Meadows on Sustainable Systems (Part 3 of 4) - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j-k5oSlgIbA
"'It blows my mind': How B.C. destroys a key natural wildfire defence every year" - https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/it-blows-my-mind-how-b-c-destroys-a-key-natural-wildfire-defence-every-year-1.4907358
'Sad surprise': Amazon fish contaminated by plastic particles | Environment - https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2018/nov/16/sad-surprise-amazon-fish-contaminated-by-plastic-particles
Facing uncertain future, farmers taking their own lives - https://www.newschannel5.com/news/facing-uncertain-future-farmers-taking-their-own-lives
Habitat loss threatens all our futures, world leaders warned. Biodiversity experts say mass extinction of wildlife is as big a danger as climate change - https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/nov/17/habitat-loss-biodiversity-wildlife-climate-change
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https://t.co/xQOmMhGr6O https://t.co/pOSisIVu8X https://twitter.com/NASAEarth/status/1063127778000805889
Nuclear did something solar & wind have not (yet) been able to do: Grow at rapid & sustained rates!
Even though renewables (solar & wind) have record growth rates (green), nuclear grew much faster (orange).
Ok, nuclear is more expensive, but don't you want to save the planet? https://t.co/7FR6qQrnM4 https://twitter.com/Peters_Glen/status/1063731218506756096
The One-Sided Worldview of Hans Rosling - Quillette - https://quillette.com/2018/11/16/the-one-sided-worldview-of-hans-rosling/
Policies of China, Russia and Canada threaten 5C climate change, study finds - https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2018/nov/16/climate-change-champions-still-pursuing-devastating-policies-new-study-reveals
Cities are sinking — and experts say we're not doing enough to save them - RN - ABC News (Australian Broadcasting Corporation) - https://mobile.abc.net.au/news/2018-11-17/cities-are-sinking-so-what-are-we-doing-about-it/10503924?pfmredir=sm
Students from across Europe have sent letters imploring top United Nations and European Union officials to "stop hiding science about global collapse" and finally come clean about the perils of out-of-control human consumption and emissions. - https://www.commondreams.org/news/2018/11/15/students-across-europe-excoriate-world-leaders-hiding-scientific-reality-pending
We live in a finite planet.
Read the book: bit.ly/1n8EMMP.
Run the model: bit.ly/2KN2qP1.
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