Malaysia’s fateful choice as land crisis looms
By Piyali Banergee, The Malaysian Insight
A MAJOR economic and societal catastrophe may soon confront one of Southeast Asia’s most important economies: Malaysia.
Tag: environmental effects of climate change
Lessons for the Climate Conflict from the Afghanistan Withdrawal
By Erik Assadourian, Gaianism
I’d like to use this withdrawal as a foil to one of the many fronts in the climate war we’re waging (if you’ll forgive the militarized metaphor)—specifically geoengineering.
China, 2049
By Michael Klare, Tom Dispatch
One way or another, however, we can be reasonably certain of one thing: as the term makes all too clear, the old Cold War format for military policy no longer holds, not on such an overheating planet.
The Atlas of Disappearing Places: Our Coasts and Oceans in the Climate Crisis: Excerpt
By Christina Conklin, Resilience.org
The difficult truth is that not every shoreline community will come out on the winning end of the U.K. government’s cost-benefit analysis, and many places will have to be abandoned.
The Changing Climate of the EUP and Beyond
By Roger Blanchard, Resilience.org
Some Arctic climate experts, such as Peter Wadhams, think a huge amount of methane could be released from the region within the next 20 years due to warming Arctic Ocean waters.
Energy and Human Ambitions on a Finite Planet: Review
By David Crossley, Resilience.org
The message in this book is simple: There are hard physical limits to the growth of available energy to power our civilization and these will probably be seriously in effect by the end of the 21st century.
Ancient leaves preserved under a mile of Greenland’s ice – and lost in a freezer for years – hold lessons about climate change
By Andrew Christ, Paul Bierman, The Conversation
Losing the Greenland ice sheet would be catastrophic to humanity today. The melted ice would raise sea level by more than 20 feet. That would redraw coastlines worldwide.
The Good Ancestor: Review
By Eliza Daley, By my solitary hearth
A book that inspires reading is a good book. A book that inspires thought is a better book. A book that inspires action is the best book of all. The Good Ancestor is the best book of all.
Drought, Disease and Isolation: The Urgent Situation of the Wayuu in La Guajira, Colombia
By Daniel Henryk Rasolt, Weave News
Why is it that the peoples that hold the least responsibility for the problems inflicted upon our living planet, are the ones who always seem to suffer the most?
Climate crisis is foundation of Indian farmers’ protests
By Omair Ahmad, The Third Pole
The protests by Indian farmers against three laws initially passed as ordinances have gone from sporadic in August 2020 to the biggest peaceful civil society protest in the world.
Triple Crisis in the Anthropocene Ocean. Part Three: The Heat of 3.6 Billion Atom Bombs
By Ian Angus, Climate and Capitalism
The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) projects that even if emissions are substantially reduced, by 2100 the ocean will heat 2 to 4 times as much as it has since 1970 — and if emissions are not cut, it will heat 5 to 7 times as much.
Cloud forests: narrow bands of biodiversity filled with mist, fog and mystery
By Monica Evans, Landscape News
Cloud forests are born of very specific geographic and climatic features: they usually form partway up mountains, when moisture-laden air currents from surrounding lowlands and bodies of water are forced upward and then cool and condense as they rise, creating persistent fog or cloud cover in a particular area.