Facing Future Blog

We welcome you to submit blog posts on any of the stressors covered in this website, or other stressors not covered here.  Topics can include ocean and air pollution, toxic chemicals and processes, the dominance of ‘profit’ over ‘people’ and all of life on Earth, soil degradation and destructive farming and forestry practices, threats to the biodiversity of a no longer healthy ecosphere, population, how we feed ourselves, industrial and personal carbon footprints, and the many components and impacts of climate change.  Don’t forget the topics of political advocacy, and grassroots organizing that are central to Facing Future.

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August 30, 2021

Drought Clobbers the World

by Robert Hunziker

According to SPEI Global Drought Monitor, no continent is spared the ravages of severe drought, except for Antarctica. This is happening at a global temperature of 1.2°C above baseline, not 1.5°C above baseline which climate scientists agree is locked in. . . .

August 20, 2021

GPI vs. GDP: Does Size Matter More Than Substance?

by Robert Hunziker

U.S House Representative Ilhan Omar (D-MN) recently introduced a bill in Congress to overhaul GDP, the nation’s most watched economic indicator. On July 30th she introduced the Genuine Progress Indicator (“GPI”) Act. It would be a significant change for the . . .

August 12, 2021

Food Waste Globally and Individually

by Margaret Beasley

According to the FAO (Food & Agriculture Organisation of the UN), 1/3 of all food produced for human consumption is wasted! Since 1970, the world's population has doubled. It is now ± 7.9 billion. We can’t go on like this. . . .

August 11, 2021

Seaspiracy’s Nightmarish Odyssey

by Robert Hunziker

Seaspiracy is a powerful new documentary about the hazardous, unruly world of industrial fishing and stomach-churning abuse, overuse, disregard for life, as shown on Netflix, released by Disrupt Studios March 24th 2021. The opening scene of the film sets the . . .

August 9, 2021

Socioeconomic Conditions for Satisfying Human Needs at Low-Energy Use: An International Analysis of Social Provisioning

Jefim Vogel, et al

Meeting human needs at sustainable levels of energy use is fundamental for avoiding catastrophic climate change and securing the well-being of all people. In the current political-economic regime, no country does so. Here, we assess which socio-economic conditions might enable . . .

July 2, 2021

Toxic Chemicals Engulf the Planet

by Robert Hunziker

Worldwide toxic chemicals are six times global warming emissions. This hidden dilemma is fully exposed in a superbly researched new book by science writer Julian Cribb: Earth Detox, How and Why We Must Clean Up Our Planet, Cambridge University Press, . . .

June 29, 2021

Lethal Heat Hits the Planet

by Robert Hunziker

The news does not get much worse than a recent scientific report that the planet is trapping twice as much heat as it did only 14 years ago. If this one report does not turn heads and create a sense . . .

May 27, 2021

What Would a Sustainable Life be Like?

by Phillip Middleton

I have an idea that to some extent this life we are being obliged to live under lockdown due to the COVID-19 pandemic may, in part, reflect the type of life we will need to live in order to live . . .

May 21, 2021

Chernobyl Alert and the Doomsday Clock

by Robert Hunziker

Like the mythical Phoenix, Chernobyl rises from the ashes. A recent… “Surge in fission reactions in an inaccessible chamber within the complex” is alarming scientists that monitor the ruins of the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant in Ukraine. (Source: Nuclear Reactions . . .

April 25, 2021

Cooling the Planet?

by Robert Hunziker

Grandiose plans to cool Earth, saving the planet from overheating by utilizing low-tech balloon flights sprinkling particles into the atmosphere to reflect solar radiation back into outer space have been delayed, nobody knows for sure when, or if, it’ll proceed. . . .

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