Is Hurricane Earl Dumping BP Oil Spill Tar Balls On The Beaches Of Nantucket?
In the last few days a few eye witnesses spotted several tar balls, of different sizes, on and off the beaches of Nantucket. The tar balls were of various sizes, some were a couple feet in diameter. According to two eye witnesses, who contacted The News Junkie Post, some of them were floating in the […]
Climate Change: The Question Of Bread
I despair when I hear people talk about climate change in terms of failing ski resorts and longer growing seasons. The disconnect between the common perception of what climate change really is and what people think it means is truly terrifying. One of the unfortunate things about Al Gore’s “Inconvenient Truth” is it led to […]
If Not Me?: Candles In Babylon
Why do I pick on individuals and their actions instead of the corporations and government bodies? Surely it is the corporations etc who have the responsibility to correct the problems since I) the y caused them in the first place, and ii) they have all of the power relative to the trivial efforts of a […]
With Your Fierce Tears: Rage, Rage Against The Dying Of The Light
Do not go gentle into that good night,
Old age should burn and rage at close of day;
Rage, rage against the dying of the light.
Digg Patriots & Climate Change: The Confederacy Of Dunces
What makes the Digg Patriots story interesting is not so much what they did, but what it tells us about society that they were able to do it at all. I am referring of course to the revelation that a group of “conservatives” organized to suppress certain kinds of information on the behemoth news sharing […]
