By disrupting the Earth’s main heat transport system, humans risk creating a new Ice Age in Europe – while the rest of the planet overheats to intolerable levels. Far beneath the storm-tossed waves of the North Atlantic, a monster is stirring. A monster so vast and violent it could savage Western Civilization in ways not … Continue reading When the Oceans Run Amok…| Surviving C21
In the eye of the hurricane is a moment of calm and silence, before wild chaos and destruction resumes. Symbolically, the world now stands in such a place. “We are on the brink of an irreversible climate disaster. This is a global emergency beyond any doubt. Much of the very fabric of life on Earth … Continue reading The deafening silence in the Eye of the Hurricane| Surviving C21
The early 21st Century has been noteworthy for an increase in the number of governments willing to act against the interests of their electors – and the number of electors prepared to vote against their own best interests and choose such governments. The US MAGA movement and the UK Brexit movement are outstanding examples but the … Continue reading Idiocracy: is this where democracy is headed?| Surviving C21
The vast wildfires now ravaging the world’s northernmost regions herald rising danger for all humanity, no matter where we live. To people worldwide desperately trying to rebuild their lives and homes following devastation by hurricane, flood, drought and sea-surge, what happens in the remote Arctic may seem of small importance. But it has the capacity … Continue reading Is Arctic methane stoking the climate crisis?| Surviving C21
Planet Earth is sick – and getting sicker, according to a new Planetary Health Check. The report, by Germany’s Potsdam Institute, finds that humans – like a drunken driver heedlessly running a red traffic light – have smashed through the safe boundaries of the planet and its ability to sustain life in seven out of … Continue reading The Earth is sick – and getting sicker.| Surviving C21
Around the world, from India, to the Middle East, to southern Europe to North America, people are dropping in tens of thousands under the blazing heat of a Northern summer. Many die. In one of the …| Surviving C21
In a momentous development, the US Government has suspended funding from the biotech company increasingly linked to the origins of the Covid pandemic that slew seven million people. The decision by…| Surviving C21
Geoff Holland: What is an Earth System treaty? And what are its core principles? Julian Cribb: An Earth System Treaty is a worldwide legal agreement, committing everyone who signs it to work to pro…| Surviving C21
Five times in the history of life on Earth the corals have perished, swept from the board by conditions hostile to nearly all life. Each time, it has taken them millions of years to evolve anew. Ea…| Surviving C21
World War Three has already begun, though few have noticed. It is being fought out in parliaments and the press, on social media platforms, in pubs and at family dining tables around the globe. It …| Surviving C21