With a Bang

[Luther Blissett]

I've been off trying to find more about this topic (Near Term Extinction) that expands beyond just the collation of bad news. The following article link is by Paul Kingsnorth. He has a website: http://dark-mountain.net/.

http://paulkingsnorth.net/journalism/dark-ecology/

His personal site and the Dark Mountain Project site offer another way to assimilate and communicate about NTE. I also mentioned earlier that the comment section of Guy McPherson's posts at Nature Bat's Last are worth ferreting through for meaningful and helpful incite into this topic.

What a great article, thank you very much. Highly recommended. If one can stomach the early praise for Kucynski's revolution, work through it. It's not what it seems that it will be.

[NeonLX]

Yeah, great article by Paul Kingsnorth. I want to read it again...

[bardobailey]

I imagine there will be a lot more of this kind of headline as things heat up out there:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe- ... WEET543552

Great Caesar's Ghost!

[DrEvil]

But it's great on toast!

[justdrew]

that's goat cheese in the news twice in the last week or two. something's up

[bardobailey]

yea toast!

[coffin_dodger]

Bardo - check this vid out - (this has been referred to elsewhere on the board but I don't know how to link to it) - you may find it interesting considering where your thoughts are at the moment - an incredible insight from Geoffrey West leading to a 'grand unified theory of sustainability'

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DFFVSvAr7Wc

[Jerky]

You know what? I think everything is gonna turn out okay.

Call me crazy, but I really don't think the doom-sayers are right.

YOPJ

[MacCruiskeen]

I almost didn't post this, because it's anything but cheerful news. Sorry. But dammit, ignoring this stuff won't make it go away. Or at least not for long.

BBC, 24 January 2013 .
Antibiotic 'apocalypse' warning

By James Gallagher

The rise in drug resistant infections is comparable to the threat of global warming, according to the chief medical officer for England.

Prof Dame Sally Davies said bacteria were becoming resistant to current drugs and there were few antibiotics to replace them.

She told a committee of MPs that going for a routine operation could become deadly due to the threat of infection.

Experts said it was a global problem and needed much more attention.

[...]

Prof Pennington said the drugs companies had run out of options too as all the easy drugs had been made.

"We have to be aware that we aren't going to have new wonder drugs coming along because there just aren't any."

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-21178718?print=true

[justdrew]

here's good news:

http://phys.org/news/2013-01-nanosilicon-rapidly-electricity.html

[Perelandra]

Bardo - check this vid out - (this has been referred to elsewhere on the board but I don't know how to link to it) - you may find it interesting considering where your thoughts are at the moment - an incredible insight from Geoffrey West leading to a 'grand unified theory of sustainability'
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DFFVSvAr7Wc

Thank you for reposting. I began watching that and would like to continue.

Thanks also, bardob. for the Kingsnorth links.

[undead]

I agree with Jerky - everything's gunna be fine.

Fukushima’s powder paradise
by Christopher Johnson
Special To The Japan Times



I seem to have the whole mountain to myself. The vast majesty of Fukushima Prefecture spreads out below me, all around. Up here, skiing on powdery snow, zigzagging through challenging moguls, it’s easy to forget about the nuclear reactors 120 km away.

Say what you will about radiation, but Fukushima is no less beautiful than it was before the reactor meltdowns at the Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant kicked off the region’s ongoing man-made tragedy in March 2011.

Below me, a distant frozen lake sits in the lap of tree-studded hills, sheltered by towering peaks and ridges along the roof of Japan. The undulations, together with the blue sky and white snow, put me in a kind of rhythmic trance well known to skiers. At 4 p.m. on a sparkling winter day, a sun dog appears, reminding us that God and supernatural forces did not flee the area after March 11.

Here, on some of Japan’s best ski slopes, is the real Fukushima. Not the Fukushima in the news: battered by a tsunami, bruised by the nuclear disaster on the coast, blemished by the rumors that anything associated with Fukushima — any person or product — is somehow tainted and cancerous. On a gorgeous winter day, nothing in Japan could be more pure and healthy than skiing at the resorts of Nekoma and Alts Bandai at the foot of 1,819-meter Mount Bandai on the western side of the prefecture.

http://aws.japantimes.co.jp/?post_type=life&p=60604

[bardobailey]

Unable to stop fidgeting about this topic, I started a Ning site yesterday. http://neartermextinction.ning.com Please feel welcome to join.

[seemslikeadream]

link's not working bardobailey

[bardobailey]

Sorry... after months of constant problems, I shut down the site.