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Without continued investment in these fields, the world would lose the equivalent of Brazil and Norway’s combined production from the global oil balance each year

Gavin Newsom says Trump is a ‘gift’ to the climate cause for dispelling notions of fossil fuel energy security

Pour empêcher les premiers travaux de la LGV Bordeaux-Toulouse, des opposants avaient installé une zad dans un bois privé. Leur campement a été démonté par la gendarmerie.

New hires and comments in interviews show that the AI giant is using its capabilities against dissenters.

Ces inquiétudes environnementales touchent 15 millions de Français, au point de représenter un enjeu de santé publique. Pourtant ce mal-être, insuffisamment pris en charge, renvoie à un concept et à des symptômes bien connus scientifiquement, nommés « écoanxiété ».

As the UN gathers, signatories from Bernie Sanders to Yeb Saño issue an open letter calling for clean power for all.

Naar verwachting zullen de komende maanden 450.000 mensen sterven, vooral in het mondiale Zuiden. Schokkende kop vanochtend in de kranten. Vertaling van een artikel op https://substack.com/@graceblakeley

The ecological concept of human carrying capacity is necessarily complicated because human beings are the ‘ultimate ecosystem engineers’ who moderate the environment for their benefit. For at least the last few hundred years, human ingenuity, access to massive stocks of fossil fuels, and technological development have driven facilitation whereby increasing human abundance has promoted higher population growth rates. However, this positive relationship broke down during the 1950s, and by 1962, the global human population entered a phase where the growth rate consistently declined as population increased. The onset of this negative phase occurred 8 years before a global biocapacity deficit began in 1970. The onset of the negative phase also varies regionally, with the lowest-income and highest fertility regions entering this phase later than higher-income regions. A Ricker logistic model fitted to the negative phase predicts that the global population could reach 11.7–12.4 billion people between 2067 and 2076.

“The battle to feed all of humanity is over,” Stanford biologist and ecologist Paul Erhlich declared on the first page of his 1968 best-seller, “The Population Bomb.” Because the “stork had passed the plow,” he predicted, “hundreds of millions of people are going to starve to death.”

New report predicts a heavy toll from Nigeria to the US – and comes on top of existing impacts of the climate crisis