Facing Future Blog

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June 23, 2025

Swiss Re SONAR 2025 Report: Global Heat Kills 480,000/Year

by Robert Hunziker

Extreme heat is one of the world’s leading killers, outdistancing worldwide conflicts of 233,000 deaths in 2024 by more than double the count at 480,000 people dead from extreme heat. All indications suggest the death count via extreme heat is . . .

June 22, 2025

Plummeting Insects

by Robert Hunziker

Insects are vanishing from pristine rainforests. “Around the world many insect populations are crashing.” (Natural History Museum, April 2025) Insects are crucial for the health of nature, whereas humans are not. And since insects are ‘dropping like flies’, does loss . . .

June 6, 2025

Nightmare of Nightmares – New (Big) CO2 Emissions

by Robert Hunziker

Global warming just got a brand-new source for trapping heat as Arctic tundra turns up the dial on CO2 emissions. It’s now in the ranks of cars, trains, and planes as an official emitter of carbon dioxide, CO2. But it . . .

June 4, 2025

Science Decommissioned!

by Robert Hunziker

In reaction to deep budget cuts, America’s most respected science journal, Nature reports: Trump Proposes Unprecedented Budget Cuts to US Science, d/d May 2, 2025: “Huge reductions, if enacted, could have ‘catastrophic’ effects on US competitiveness and the scientific pipeline.” . . .

May 19, 2025

America’s Impact on the Global Thermostat

by Robert Hunziker

America is targeting a hotter planet… Bring it on! That’s the only plausible explanation for the Trump administration’s gung-ho push for 100% fossil fuels and as much coal burning as possible while trashing mitigation of climate change, which is characterized . . .

May 9, 2025

America’s Great Brain Drain

by Robert Hunziker

“A few years ago, no one would have imagined that one of the biggest democracies in the world would cancel research programs under the pretext that the word ‘diversity’ was in this program.” (French President Emmanuel Macron, Choose Europe for . . .

May 3, 2025

Absurd (Scary) CO2 Emissions

by Robert Hunziker

In a major blow to the Paris ’15 climate agreement, last year witnessed one more nail in the coffin of the celebrated agreement to slow down CO2 emissions by 2030, as CO2, for the first time in modern history, enters . . .

May 1, 2025

Climate Change Kills Capitalism

by Robert Hunziker

Capitalism, like Antarctica and like the Amazon rainforest, is under threat of destruction by excessive levels of CO2 emissions which cause radical climate change. Risk of some level of extinction of capitalism goes to the heart of a recent article . . .

April 18, 2025

Synchronized Global Climate Breakdown

by Robert Hunziker

The world has entered a new climate era that threatens the fabric of civilization because it’s the reverse of the climate system that society was built upon. As it happens, the biosphere is starting to unravel as the world’s long-standing . . .

April 9, 2025

Will the U.S. Build Seawalls?

by Robert Hunziker

Antarctica is coming apart, crumbling into the sea, much, much faster than anybody ever thought possible. After all, it was only a couple of months ago when polar scientists called an extraordinary emergency meeting to discuss shocking developments: “Runaway ice . . .

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