Excerpts

This page is an excerpt from Issue 2 / Chapter 3. The idea of the carbon footprint is to calculate and reduce the amount of fossil fuels we personally are responsible for burning. How much gasoline do we personally burn by driving each year, and can we reduce it? How much natural gas do we…

This page is an excerpt from Issue 2 / Chapter 2. This issue began by discussing the green energy deal with the devil: in order to save the planet from climate change, it is necessary to sacrifice parts of the planet. There is no way to obtain the minerals needed for the green energy transition…

This page is an excerpt from Issue 1 / Chapter 4. Apocalypse Nord This section is a side-by-side comparison of what mainstream economists versus climate scientists say about climate change. In this section, we use the generally accepted shorthand for warming: e.g., “2 degrees of warming” is shorthand for an average global temperature increase 2…

This page is an excerpt from Issue 1 / Chapter 3. When the hottest commodity is human suffering The dominant model of development imagines that poor countries can harness the free market to lift themselves out of poverty. Initially, poor countries have little to offer, but should take advantage of whatever they are able to…

This page is an excerpt from Issue 1 / Chapter 2 Why was France so interested in Cameroon? Why were colonies worth fighting bloody wars over? The entire reason European nations wanted colonies was to get raw materials from them for cheap, then force the colonies to buy goods manufactured by the colonizers. If you…

This page is an except from Issue 1 / Chapter 1 Cameroon is blessed with so much natural wealth that it could afford to meet all of its citizens’ basic needs. Yet Cameroon is one of the poorest countries on the planet. The United Nations’ preferred way of measuring poverty is called the Multidimentional Poverty…