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.

Articles should be brief and to the point, ranging from 250 to 1000 words.  Please include a selection of images you feel are appropriate, gleaned from the Internet in image searches, including images JPEGs, GIFs, and PNGs.  Submit in any of the following formats: PDF, Word, Google Docs, HTML, or Text.

All articles will be reviewed prior to posting.  Any edits will be shared with you before posting in our blog.

Articles may be emailed to contact@facingfuture.earth .  Don’t forget to upload your selected images. We will confirm receipt as soon as possible.

Listing of Blog Posts

1 6 7 8 9 10 23

August 15, 2023

‘Project 2025’ Will Goose Up Global Heat

by Robert Hunziker

The Far-Right takeover of the Republican Party has readied a battle plan for 2025 that will crucify commitments to fight global heat, namely: Project 2025 / Presidential Transition Project, a 920-page formal proposal to take over and reconstruct government via . . .

July 30, 2023

The Nuclear Energy Trap

by Robert Hunziker

Nuclear reactors are directly in the line of fire of global warming. In fact, nuclear reactors cannot survive global warming. But that’s only the start of serious issues with the world’s newly found love affair with nuclear energy. This article . . .

July 23, 2023

Antarctica’s Threatening Winter

by Robert Hunziker

In the dead of winter, the Antarctic Peninsula, an 800-mile extension of the Antarctic continent, temperatures hit 32°F. (Source: It’s Even Hot in Antarctica, Where it’s Winter, Vox, July 13, 2023) Global warming has been on a hot streak, accelerating . . .

July 14, 2023

Climate Poison Pills in Congress

by Robert Hunziker

Republican lawmakers in the US Congress are unabashedly pro-global warming: “Bring it on! We’ve got air conditioners in our cars, offices, and homes… no sweat!” Not one Republican in Congress voted for the nation’s most inclusive climate bill of all . . .

July 8, 2023

The Greenland Threat Escalates

by Robert Hunziker

Will the world’s major coastal cities, such as NYC, survive escalating global heat conditions in Greenland? And what if both Greenland and Antarctica follow the recent very disturbing pattern of the world’s oceans? For the first time that scientists can . . .

July 2, 2023

The Ocean Red Zone

by Robert Hunziker

Oceans of the world are in a dangerous red zone that exceeds safe limits for marine and terrestrial life because of excessive heat. Several statements by climate scientists show heightened concerns about how this plays out, as 2023 could be . . .

June 19, 2023

Planetary Heat is Happening Fast, and Faster

by Robert Hunziker

The evidence is starting to build that all bets are off on predictions that humanity has a decade, or more, of clear sailing before global warming turns vicious enough to run roughshod over climate change deniers and the mean-spirited anti-climate-change . . .

June 10, 2023

France’s Global Warming Predicament

by Robert Hunziker

When one of the world’s most developed culturally elite countries, France, tosses in the towel on the IPCC 2°C barrier, it sends a loud and clear message that the global warming fight is losing the battle. Seriously, France expects 4°C. . . .

May 30, 2023

Supremes Declare War on Wetlands

by Robert Hunziker

The Supreme Court is effectively axing a major component of the Clean Water Act, rolling back 50 years of wetland protection in a declaration of war against nature by changing a word in the text of the Clean Water Act. . . .

May 28, 2023

Nuclear Turns Fashionable

by Robert Hunziker

Small Modular Reactors (SMR) are the new nuclear craze, especially with the U.S. Congress, as America’s representatives see SMRs as a big answer to energy needs and reduction of greenhouse gases, advertised as a green deal for clean energy that . . .

1 6 7 8 9 10 23