Japan’s Nuclear Crisis Worsens: Fukushima Goes Chernobyl
All along we’ve known that we’re not getting the full story. Whether it’s been excused as corporate and industrial protectionism, or cultural relativism, the lack of integrity and transparency is being melted away by the force of the nuclear contamination itself. In the same way that they have been unable to stem the leak of […]
My Dinner With Kofi
Not Kofi Annan, nor anyone you have likely ever heard of or met. Nor have we actually had dinner together, although we keep meaning to. We talk often because we both enjoy our conversations and learn from them, hence another opportunity is always to be desired. That’s the part that puzzles some people immensely as […]
Overpopulation, Climate Change, Food Crisis, War: The Horsemen Of Apocalyptic Capitalism
In the last few years, the prophecies or prognostics of doom and gloom have been coming fast and furious. It is of course the Christian fundamentalist end of days scenario, but it is also featured in other fairy tales or conspiracy theory assumptions such as the predictions of Nostradamus or the Mayan calendar. While the […]
Machinima, Popular Education And Climate Change Deniers
Machinima is? a) a technique for video production that progressives barely use; b) a German cyber-goth band; c) a name for pit-bull/doberman hybrids; d) videos produced using computer game engines. Recently climate blogger (and scientist) Michael Tobis posted “Dogs and Deniers,” a post illustrating the similarity between a particular Far Side cartoon and real life […]
What Common Sense Tells Us About Climate Change
After babbling on with a number of factoids about global population, the land surface area of Texas and so on, the ‘Tennessee Conservative Watch (TCW)” asks “Considering that the earth’s atmosphere extends 50 miles up from the surface, how can anyone with half a brain think that humans can do anything to change the atmosphere […]
