Richard Zurawski

It’s no secret that as human rights to travel, live and work around the world have become strangled for one reason or another, the rights of capital have enjoyed an unprecedented and virtually unfettered right to travel, invest and exploit. Under the banner of globalization, our corporatocracy has been able to close borders to people [...]

The cost of fossil fuels continues to rise. Whether you think it is because of price and market speculation or because of Hubbert’s peak or because of too much demand from the emerging economies in India and China, the fact remains that in North America, we have yet to wake up to the fact that [...]

Andrew Krystal and I were chatting a week or so ago about the first sustainable fission nuclear reactor that French official tripped over in Gabon, West Africa in 1973. It is some two billion years old and it certainly points to the fact that there is nothing under the purview of humanity that nature hasn’t [...]

The UN is saying we have a perfect storm brewing because of global food shortages and rising food prices. Much of the world, already burdened with huge populations and barely subsisting are now being hit with that double whammy and then being further crushed under the additional stupidity of methanol production to make up for [...]

This past week we have been hearing a lot about seals, seal hunters and protesters. I thought I might throw my two cents worth into the fray and hope that I don’t add further confusion to the already crowded rhetorical arena. In general, we, people that is, have three problems. Too many of us, too [...]

Physics has been in disarray for quite some time, since the 1970s actually. Looking back on the progress of science, it strikes me that the last time that science was at a threshold like this was about a century ago as we made the transition from Newtonian to Einsteinian physics. It was a heady and [...]

Its close enough to April Fool’s Day for me to have considered this a joke….if it wasn’t for the fact that this stuff is so stupid and even dangerous. Let me elaborate. Earth Day Darkness on Saturday night at 8 p.m. found me in, what my friend and colleague so aptly names, “The Great Satan”. [...]

About six months ago as we were relaxing on our decks at the height of our northern summer, the Antarctic was in throes of its frigid winter. I wondered out loud what would happen, as we slid back into winter and the Antipodes drifted into summer, in that mostly ignored, ice enshrouded land mass, some [...]