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Survivalism, the practice of preparing for a crackup of civilization, tends to evoke a certain picture: the woodsman in the tinfoil hat, the hysteric with the hoard of beans, the religious doomsayer. But in recent years survivalism has expanded to more affluent quarters, taking root...

It is in our nature to need stories. We arrive “biologically prepared” for them. They were evolutionarily crucial. We feel and think in story-logic (story-causality configures our reaction-biology)...

Why do most researchers in ‘normal science’, for example, ignore the benefits of a whole food, plant-based (WFPB) diet on human health? And why do the same ‘normal science’ researchers assume the safety of genetically modified (GM) foods? Two seemingly separate ideas sharing the same...

Photo by Marilyn Cornelius, taken at the Op ML protest outside Al Gore's Climate Reality Leadership training in San Francisco, Nov 2012. Imagine going to a doctor with a persistent mild fever and a lump the size of a coconut by the side of your head....

It is time for ExxonMobil to come clean about the war it waged against climate scientists and their work during the George W. Bush presidency, part of its efforts to stop the regulation of greenhouse gas emissions that affect its products. The company is currently under...

Most countries have already made voluntary pledges to roll out clean energy and cut carbon emissions, and Prof John Schellnhuber said the best hope of making nations keep their promises was moral pressure. “If some countries really honour their pledges, including China, Brazil, South Africa, US...

Graphene has the potential to replace and bring about the rapid demise of fossil fuels as an energy source, possibly within a decade and this alone justifies its description as a ‘wonder material’....

A devastating critique of the US National Climate Action Plan, i.e., the Intended Nationally Defined Contribution (INDC), as submitted to COP-21 in Paris. The plan appears to be just greenwashed business-as-usual, which is precisely what President Obama can hope to get approval through the current...

Climate science is shaking up the world as we know it.  It is destabilizing the establishment and threatening the interests of some of the most powerful financial groups.  The facts regarding the key causes of climate change are also challenging many of our most favorite...

How can so many Americans support practices that, when made visible, are so horrifying that we are forced to look away? The answer, surprisingly, lies in another historical example of normalized violence: foot-binding in China....