From the Wilderness' Peak Oil Blog

With the arrival of Peak Oil, the curtain has closed on Act 1 of the drama Petroleum Man. What will happen in Act 2? Chekhov said, "If there's a gun on the wall at the beginning of the play, by the end it must go off." In the world's nuclear arsenal are many guns on the wall. If life copies art, will there be an Act 3 in which the players, having learned their lesson the hard way, live sustainably? To explore these and other questions... FTW's Act 2 Blog. Read, comment, take heart! Orkin

Wednesday, October 19, 2022

From Jenna Orkin

How the COVID-19 pandemic affected life expectancy: study

Half-a-Million Year Old Signs of Extinct Human Species Found in Poland Cave

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Boston University is refuting a series of misleading claims about research at the University’s National Emerging Infectious Diseases Laboratories (NEIDL). The reports, which first appeared on Monday in the United Kingdom’s Daily Mail, claimed researchers at the lab had “created a new deadly COVID strain.”
Since Oct 10, 30% of Ukraine’s power stations have been destroyed, causing massive blackouts across the country.

About 17 Americans die waiting for transplants each day. Scientists are trying to make more organs in 5 creative ways.

An Alabama factory that makes parts for Kia and Hyundai employed children as young as 13, a Labor Department investigation found

A series of different sized Amazon packages sit on a downwards-sloping conveyer belt with high walls.

Attrition at Amazon is costing the company $8 billion a year, with workers twice as likely to leave by choice than be fired, report says

How the warehouse boom devoured America's workforce

The pound slides after soaring food prices drive UK inflation back to a 40-year high of 10.1%

 

Jenna Orkin at 7:26 AM
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