Articles by Robert Hunziker
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World Meteorological Organization Bright Red Alert
Robert Hunziker | Pressenza – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Apr 2024
7 Apr 2024 – The inherent antagonism between neoliberalism’s free market dictates of “follow the money” versus the planet’s complex ecosystems that don’t need money is addressed in Global Social Challenges. What’s more important for life: Profits or Mother Nature?
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Warnings from the Far North
Robert Hunziker | CounterPunch – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Jan 2022
27 Dec 2021 – It’s never been more urgent and timely for the world to change its ways and abandon the current economic maelstrom that haunts all life on the planet. The pros and cons of capitalism’s experiment with neoliberal tendencies that enrich the few and bury the many should be debated in the context of strained resources throughout the biosphere, including all life forms.
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The Dreaded Rainforest Shift
Robert Hunziker | CounterPunch – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Nov 2021
23 Nov 2021 – Major portions of the Amazon rainforest have shifted from a carbon sink to a carbon source. This shift has severe planet-wide negative implications.
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Mother Nature, Inc.
Robert Hunziker | Pressenza - TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Nov 2021
9 Nov 2021 – Wall Street investors have hit the jackpot. Soon they’ll be able to buy, own, and dictate The Commons, public lands, the world of Mother Nature. In fact, a pilot project is already in the works with ecosystems up for sale…
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Seaspiracy’s Nightmarish Odyssey
Robert Hunziker | Pressenza - TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 May 2021
16 May 2021 – Seaspiracy is a powerful new documentary about the hazardous, unruly world of industrial fishing and stomach-churning abuse, overuse, disregard for life. Released by Disrupt Studios on 24 Mar 2021. {Official Trailer | Netflix}
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The Doomsday Glacier Lives up to Its Billing
Robert Hunziker – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Apr 2021
20 Apr 2021 – The 21st century serves as an inflection point of acceleration of climate instability caused by human-generated greenhouse gases, as CO2 emissions increase well beyond the rate of the prior century.
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What If Oumuamua Is the Real Deal?
Robert Hunziker | Pressenza - TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Feb 2021
14 Feb 2021 – If Oumuamua is a real alien craft, then Earthlings are doing some really weird stuff on the scale of alien intelligence. Think about it… If it’s an alien craft or drone there’s no way it entered the sun’s solar system, swooping within 15M miles of Earth, powered by fossil fuels. It is the first known interstellar object in our solar system. It’s estimated to be between 330 and 3,280 feet long and between 115 and 548 feet wide and dark red in color, and it tumbles.
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Complex Life Threatened
Robert Hunziker | Countercurrents - TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Feb 2021
22 Jan 2021 – Throughout the world, scientists are speaking out like never before. They’re talking about an emergency situation of the health of the planet threatening “complex life,” including, by default, human life. It’s scary stuff.
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A Troubling Discovery in the Arctic
Robert Hunziker | Countercurrents - TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Nov 2020
7 Nov 2020 – The satellite call referenced a sleeping giant that has enough carbon firepower to adversely impact the world’s climate system. The expedition discovered methane (CH4) that had been securely frozen in shallow subsea permafrost waters forever, and ever, and ever, now “stirring.” Colloquially, “The Monster of the North awakened.”
→ read full articleDumping Fukushima’s Water into the Ocean… Seriously?
Robert Hunziker | Countercurrents - TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Nov 2020
30 Oct 2020 – For nearly a decade the crippled Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant has been streaming radioactive water into the Pacific Ocean as TEPCO struggles to control it. Yet, the bulk of the radioactive water is stored in more than 1,000 water tanks. Japan’s government has made a decision to dump the contaminated water into the Pacific.
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The Dying Planet Report 2020
Robert Hunziker | Pressenza - TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Sep 2020
24 Sep 2020 – The World Wildlife Foundation, in collaboration with the Zoological Society of London, recently issued an eye-popping description of the forces of humanity versus life in nature, the Living Planet Report 2020, but the report should really be entitled the Dying Planet Report 2020 because that’s what’s happening in the real world. Not much remains alive.
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Freakish Arctic Fires Alarmingly Intensify
Robert Hunziker | CounterPunch - TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Aug 2020
12 Aug 2020 – NASA satellite images of fires in eastern Siberia depict an inferno of monstrous proportions, nothing in modern history compares. And, as of July, it’s intensifying. Should people be concerned? Answer: Yes, and double yes.
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Abrupt Ecosystem Collapse
Robert Hunziker | Pressenza - TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Apr 2020
A new study in Nature Magazine 8 Apr 2020 casts a disturbing light on the prospects of abrupt ecosystem collapse. The report analyzes the probabilities of collapsing ecosystems en masse, and not simply the loss of individual species.
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Peter Wadhams, Professor Emeritus, Ocean Physics
Robert Hunziker - Counterpunch,
20 Aug 2018
10 Aug 2018 – My mission was to drill down into what’s happening with the climate crisis. I got the answers I was looking for… Methane embedded in frozen deposits in shallow waters north of Siberia is the most underrated and overlooked risk by the scientific community, which prompts many, many hard questions. My follow up question: What will be the impact of a 50Gt pulse? Answer: “It would wipe out civilization within 5 years.”
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Insect Decimation Upstages Global Warming
Robert Hunziker - CounterPunch,
2 Apr 2018
27 Mar 2018 – Everybody’s heard about global warming. It is one of the most advertised existential events of all time. However, there’s a new kid on the block. An alarming loss of insects will likely take down humanity before global warming hits maximum velocity.
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Fukushima Darkness
Robert Hunziker - CounterPunch,
27 Nov 2017
22 Nov 2017 – The radiation effects of the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant triple meltdowns are felt worldwide, whether lodged in sea life or in humans, it cumulates over time. The growing problem of Fukushima’s radiation conundrum.
→ read full articlePlastic Chokes the Seas
Robert Hunziker – CounterPunch,
31 Jul 2017
28 Jul 2017 – One of the great myths of modern-day society is that people recycle in earnest… saving the environment. Au contraire! Check out the ocean. In the 1960s plastic was found in the stomachs of fewer than 5% of seabirds. By 1980 it jumped to 80%, now 90%. What’s left? National Geographic says that seabird populations dropped 67% between 1950 and 2010.
→ read full articleAmerican Darkness vs. Bhutan Brightness
Robert Hunziker | Dissident Voice – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Jun 2017
As Donald Trump axes America’s commitment to the Paris Climate Accord, the Kingdom of Bhutan finalizes Bhutan for Life, a fund that will allow the country to remain carbon neutral forever. By ignoring the pressing issue of climate change/global warming, America looks insignificant, undignified, and very weak whereas Bhutan’s carbon neutral commitment looks relevant, sophisticated, and very strong.
→ read full articleFukushima: A Lurking Global Catastrophe?
Robert Hunziker | Dissident Voice – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Feb 2017
19 Feb 2017 – Year over year, ever since 2011, the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear meltdown grows worse and worse, an ugly testimonial to the inherent danger of generating electricity via nuclear fission, which produces isotopes, some of the most deadly poisonous elements on the face of the planet.
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Robert Hunziker | Dissident Voice – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Nov 2016
31 Oct 2016 – It is literally impossible for the world community to get a clear understanding of, and truth about, the Fukushima nuclear disaster. This statement is based upon the Feature article in Columbia Journalism Review (“CJR”) dated October 25, 2016 entitled: “Sinking a Bold Foray into Watchdog Journalism in Japan” by Martin Fackler.
→ read full articleLoss of Planet Reflectivity an Impending Catastrophe
Robert Hunziker | Dissident Voice – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Sep 2016
19 Sep 2016 – The planet’s air conditioning system is on the blink, working intermittently, losing its glinting, lustrous white reflectiveness, as it turns deep blue, absorbing 90% of sunlight rather than reflecting it back into outer space. The repercussions of Arctic sea ice loss are immense.
→ read full articleThe Sick Ocean
Robert Hunziker - CounterPunch,
12 Sep 2016
8 Sep 2016 – A major new scientific report, “Explaining Ocean Warming” was released on 5 Sep. It is grim. The findings are based upon peer-reviewed research compiled by 80 scientists from 12 countries. It is the most comprehensive study ever undertaken on the subject of warming of the ocean.
→ read full articleNeoliberalism Nakedly Exposed
Robert Hunziker – CounterPunch,
20 Jun 2016
14 Jun 2016 – A recent IMF study (June 2016) exposes flaws in neoliberal policy that have afflicted progressive issues for over 40 years. The title of the study itself “Neoliberalism: Oversold?” hints at the underlying thesis that something must be wrong. Why else pose the question? “Instead of delivering growth, some neoliberal policies have increased inequality, in turn jeopardizing durable expansion.” (Neoliberalism: Oversold? IMF, Finance & Development, June 2016, Vol. 53, No. 2).
→ read full articleFukushima: Worse Than a Disaster
Robert Hunziker - CounterPunch,
13 Jun 2016
Disasters can be cleaned up. 600 tons of hot molten core, or corium, are missing and it is not likely the fuel will ever be recovered: “Nobody really knows where the fuel is at this point, and this fuel is still very radioactive and will be for a long time.” Nobody has experience with a Fukushima-type 100% meltdown, possibly burrowed into the ground, but nobody really knows for sure.
→ read full articleTroika Heat-Seeking Missile Destroys Greece
Robert Hunziker – Dissident Voice,
30 May 2016
23 May 2016 – It is scorched-earth economic warfare, ordinarily referred to as neoliberalism. The newest twist/manipulation in negotiations with Troika for Greece survival (demise) in order to provide the country with €86 billion of which 90% pays off debt, 10% to the state, demands Greece cut pensions (again), raise taxes (again), privatize state assets (for a song), and deregulate (squelch) labor. Inspirational?
→ read full articleFukushima Flunks Decontamination
Robert Hunziker - CounterPunch,
23 May 2016
Fukushima’s growing radiation problem.
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Robert Hunziker - CounterPunch,
16 May 2016
IMF Queen Christine’s backroom stratagem, described in a WikiLeaks’ leaked confidential letter exclusive to Troika members, preceded the three-day nationwide strike in very strong protest against more and more, infinitely more, austerity measures burying the Greek people as quid pro quo for bailout money, which almost exclusively (95%) serves to service creditors. This is insanity of the highest order. How can Greeks at all accede to a measly 5%?
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Robert Hunziker – Dissident Voice,
28 Mar 2016
Today, the radiation at the Fukushima plant is still so powerful it has proven impossible to get into its bowels to find and remove the extremely dangerous blobs of melted fuel rods, weighing hundreds of tonnes. Five robots sent into the reactors have failed to return. It’s killing robots!
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Robert Hunziker - CounterPunch,
21 Dec 2015
Murphy’s Law has found a permanent home in Fukushima: “Anything that can go wrong will go wrong.” Why nuke plants are as dangerous as nuclear weapons.
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Robert Hunziker - CounterPunch,
9 Nov 2015
As time passes, a bona fide message emerges from within the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant disaster scenario, and that message is that once a nuclear power plant loses it, the unraveling only gets worse and worse until it’s at its worst, and still, there’s no stopping it. Similar to opening Pandora’s box, there’s no stopping a ferocious atom-splitting insanity that knows no end.
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