Disasters In 2010: Nine-Tenths Were Severe Weather-Related Events Linked To Climate Change
Globally, a growing majority of people are starting to understand that climate change and global warming mean extreme weather. Last week New Yorkers were under two feet of snow. In Australia, Queensland is experiencing a flood of biblical proportion that covers an area as big as France and Germany combined. In 2010, floods killed thousands […]
Endgame: The Problem Of Trivialization
On the advice of many Derrick Jensen’s “Endgame” has been on the ‘should read’ list for years, but somehow I have never gotten around to it. More recently a youtube clip of him reading an excerpt was brought to my attention, so I watched that, and then checked out sections of the books that are […]
Support Our Troops: Stop Climate Change!
Following up on Gilbert Mercier’s Obama’s Afghan Strategy For A War That Can’t Be Won I would like to offer two other perspectives on the Afghan War, the first much more microscopic, the second more macroscopic. To begin I would like to introduce you to the too little known Afghanada, “an award-winning Canadian radio drama […]
Energy: With “Peak-Oil” Passed, It Is Time for a Post-Carbon Age
The World Energy Outlook report 2010 was released by the International Energy Agency (IEA) on November 9th. The implications for the future of our planet are grim and stark unless some urgent and concerted actions are taken. The IEA projects, for its 25-year energy policies scenario, that conventional crude oil production will never regain its […]
Save Our World: 350.org’s 10/10/10 Global Work Party In Photos
Yesterday, people from across the world joined together in 188 countries to dig community gardens, install solar panels, plant trees and demonstrate to push their respective leaders to address the urgent issues of climate change and global warming. The global movement, with the organization 350.org in the lead, wanted to send a clear global message […]
