Guy Watson on how Riverford Farm is living with climate change
Perhaps those for whom the notion of ‘living with climate change’ is most acutely felt are farmers.
Perhaps those for whom the notion of ‘living with climate change’ is most acutely felt are farmers.
As an ambitious program in Colombia demonstrates, combining grazing and agriculture with tree cultivation can coax more food from each acre, boost farmers’ incomes, restore degraded landscapes, and make farmland more resilient to climate change.
"It’s not worth the risk in order just to boil water. That’s what the nuclear plants are all built for."
The moral of this story: people in power and bureaucrats seem exceptionally obtuse when it comes to recognizing that the world has changed and the old rules no longer apply.
What does Transition look like in a place with just 4" of rain a year?
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Paul Kingsnorth wrote recently of the floods that have hit the UK, arguing that they represent the beginning of "a gradual, messy, winding-down of everything we once believed we were entitled to".
This month our theme is "living with climate change". We’ll be exploring that from a variety of angles…
Reports on climate change evidence and causes, legislation, and geoengineering.
No water. That pretty much sums up living with climate change around here, in Los Angeles.
Like many others who preceded us, our "civilisation" faces an Energy Crisis of megawattic proportions, which threatens to bring an end to our brief joyride.
Since this was Oscar night, it seems appropriate to update my post on what messages the public are exposed to in popular culture and the media.