Environment
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Calling All Future-Eaters (Chris Hedges)
Read more...July 19, 2010 -- The human species during its brief time on Earth has exhibited a remarkable capacity to kill itself off. The Cro-Magnons dispatched the gentler Neanderthals. The conquistadors, with ...
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Revolution: The Wrong Kind And The Right Kind (Carolyn Baker)
Read more...July 15, 2010 (CarolynBaker.net) -- Lately I've been encountering articles and news stories touting the need for revolution in the wake of a gansterized U.S. financial system and a government that ha ...
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From Despair To Impassioned Inspiration (Carolyn Baker)
Read more...When despair for the world grows in me and I wake in the night at the least sound in fear of what my life and my children's lives may be, I go and lie down where the wood drake rests in his beauty on ...
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Understanding the BP Oil Tragedy: Time Blindness (Joel S. Hirschhorn)
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Joel S. Hirshhorn Joel S. Hirschhorn -- World News Trust July 6, 2010 -- A loss expected to happen next year looks smaller than that same loss happening next week. Worse yet, a loss or catastrophe th ...
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The Journey From Anger To Anguish: Responding To Eco-cide (Carolyn Baker)
Read more...Messenger My work is loving the world. Here the sunflowers, there the hummingbird - equal seekers of sweetness. Here the quickening yeast; there the blue plums. Here the clam deep in the speckled san ...
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Deepwater Horizon: The Worst-Case Scenario (Richard Heinberg)
Read more...June 20, 2010 -- (Post Carbon Institute) -- Reports from the Gulf of Mexico just keep getting worse. Estimates of the rate of oil spillage from the Deepwater Horizon wellhead just keep gushing (the l ...
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Vulnerable Nations at Copenhagen Summit Reject 2C Target | John Vidal
Read more...Alliance of Small Island States say any deal that allows temperatures to rise by more than 1.5C is 'not negotiable' Dec. 10, 2009 (Guardian) -- More than half the world's countries say they are deter ...
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The editorial seen around the world | Mark Leon Goldberg
Read more...A version of the same editorial calling for action in Copenhagen ran in 56 newspapers in 45 countries today. Many on the front page. This unprecedented effort was spearheaded by the Guardian. Good fo ...
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Scientist Says Warming Will 'Wipe Out Billions' If Political Leaders Fail To Act (Jenny Fyall)
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Nov. 29, 2009 -- Most of the world's population will be wiped out if political leaders fail to agree a method of stopping current rates of global warming, one of the UK's most senior climate scientis ...
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Antarctica: Collapse of the ice bridge supporting Wilkins Ice Shelf appears imminent
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April 3, 2009 (European Space Agency) -- The Wilkins Ice Shelf is at risk of partly breaking away from the Antarctic Peninsula as the ice bridge that connects it to Charcot and Latady Islands looks s ...
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I Love a Planet with a Happy Atmosphere (Michael Greenwell)
Read more...March 24, 2009 (World News Trust) -- The newspapers and TV like natural disasters. They provide countless emotional and, on the whole, non-controversial scenes (with the exception of New Orleans as t ...
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