From 2022, Jon Wertheim’s report on “preppers” who are gearing up for extreme catastrophes. From 2008, Scott Pelley’s visit to the “doomsday vault” inside a mountain near the North Pole, built to warehouse backup copies of all the world’s crops. From 2023, Pelley’s interviews with scientists who say the planet is in the midst of a sixth mass extinction with Earth’s wildlife running out of places to live. And also from 2023, Bill Whitaker’s story on virus hunters who are searching for new pathogens to help prevent another pandemic.
Tag: environment
‘What if there just is no solution?’ How we are all in denial about the climate crisis
In his new book, Tad DeLay suggests there is no rosy roadmap to go forward – but there are things we can do
![Supporters of the Fridays for Future climate action movement protest in Berlin before June 2024’s EU parliamentary elections. Photograph: Omer Messinger/Getty Images](https://www.thepsychopath.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/6720.avif)
You are in denial about the climate crisis. We all are, argues the American scholar Tad DeLay. Right-wing climate deniers are not the only ones with a problem, he says when we speak in early June after the release of his book, Future of Denial. For denial doesn’t only amount to rejecting the evidence, he argues – it also consists of denying our role in the climate crisis; absolving ourselves through “carbon offsets, hybrid cars, local purchases, recycling”. And in this, far more of us are implicated.
“Sometimes it is almost impossible not to feel hopeless and broken,”
Sometimes it is almost impossible not to feel hopeless and broken,” says the climate scientist Ruth Cerezo-Mota. “After all the flooding, fires, and droughts of the last three years worldwide, all related to climate change, and after the fury of Hurricane Otis in Mexico, my country, I really thought governments were ready to listen to the science, to act in the people’s best interest.”
‘We were in disbelief’: Antarctica is behaving in a way we’ve never seen before. Can it recover?
Antarctic sea ice has been disappearing over the last several summers. Now, climate scientists are wondering whether it will ever come back.
![A small boat glides around patches of sea ice in the water off Deception Island in Antarctica. Sea ice in the region grows from a minimum in summer to a maximum in winter, but in the last several years, the sea ice extent has been shrinking in summer. (Image credit: karenfoleyphotography / Alamy Stock Photo)](https://i0.wp.com/www.thepsychopath.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/6426mupoxqNJB3dfsBqdy9-650-80.jpg.webp?resize=650%2C366&ssl=1)
new assault on the tesla ‘gigafactory’ in berlin by the ‘volcano group’,
new assault on the tesla ‘gigafactory’ in berlin by the ‘volcano group’, burning down electricity pylons.
in their communique, they call for a “complete destruction of the Gigafactory and with it the removal of ‘technofascists’ like Elon Musk.”
it’s not their first attack…???? pic.twitter.com/OaCxO1MPey
— Machines in Flames Film (@destruct_intl) March 5, 2024
Statio Numero now available as Free Digital Comic Files
CBZ, CBR, now added to the Archive.org package
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Due to popular demand, I have added a CBR and CBZ format to the free Internet Archive version of Statio Numero.
CBR and CBZ are standard digital comic formats. There are lots of free readers for tablets and desktop/laptop computers. You should read these on a tablet or laptop/desktop computer, not a phone, for legibility reasons. Of course, the links won’t be clickable in this format, but the art and text have good-quality resolution.
Enjoy.
Links
Frightening Reason Behind Explosions Over Tundra
The mystery of the Siberian tundra craters may have been solved… but the discovery could point to something far more dangerous.
Arctic zombie viruses in Siberia could spark terrifying new pandemic, scientists warn
![Threat of outbreak from microbes trapped in permafrost for millennia raised by increased Siberian shipping activity](https://i0.wp.com/www.thepsychopath.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/1361.jpg?resize=620%2C460&ssl=1)
Humanity is facing a bizarre new pandemic threat, scientists have warned. Ancient viruses frozen in the Arctic permafrost could one day be released by Earth’s warming climate and unleash a major disease outbreak, they say.
LINK: https://www.theguardian.com/society/2024/jan/21/arctic-zombie-viruses-in-siberia-could-spark-terrifying-new-pandemic-scientists-warn
What Will the Solar Maximum do to Earth in 2025?
What effect does this solar cycle have on our own planet?
Climate change and the threat to civilization
![The consequences of climate change are likely to be dire—and in some scenarios, catastrophic. Scholars need to start discussing the mechanisms whereby climate change could cause the actual collapse of civilizations. Image credit: Flickr/Spencer.](https://i0.wp.com/www.thepsychopath.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/pnas.2210525119fig01.jpg?resize=660%2C479&ssl=1)
In a speech about climate change from April 4th of this year, UN General Secretary António Guterres lambasted “the empty pledges that put us on track to an unlivable world” and warned that “we are on a fast track to climate disaster” (1). Although stark, Guterres’ statements were not novel. Guterres has made similar remarks on previous occasions, as have other public figures, including Sir David Attenborough, who warned in 2018 that inaction on climate change could lead to “the collapse of our civilizations” (2). In their article, “World Scientists’ Warning of a Climate Emergency 2021”—which now has more than 14,700 signatories from 158 countries—William J. Ripple and colleagues state that climate change could “cause significant disruptions to ecosystems, society, and economies, potentially making large areas of Earth uninhabitable” (3).
READ ARTICLE: https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2210525119?s=03