The conservation imperative: energy limits to growth and the path to sustainability – part II

The kind of weather whiplash that fueled the fires is only becoming more common, and not just in the United States. A new analysis in the peer-reviewed academic journal Nature Reviews Earth & Environment has found that rapid shifts between heavy rain and drought (and vice versa) are becoming more intense — and the trend is unfolding faster than climate models have projected.

When the University of Toronto’s School of the Environment announced in October that it will no longer accept donations from the fossil fuel industry, the news sent waves through the growing movement to get coal, oil and gas companies off campuses. Among other things, that means banning fossil fuel corporations from financing academic research.

In the west of Ireland I find there has been less industrialisation of agriculture with many farming in a more traditional manner keeping small mixed holdings with off farm incomes – very often in construction where I meet them.