Looking for another reason to worry about fracking? We're going to bubble-wrap the entire planet with the overabundance of plastic it produces.
The climate crisis has such bad timing, confronting it not only requires a new economy but a new way of thinking.
Rights for Mother Earth, not Corporations
Computer modelling showed intensification of US-bound Pacific storms, driven by fine aerosols from coal power plants and traffic.
More disturbing than any horror movie, Showtime's Years of Living Dangerously, a nine-part series about climate change, is essential viewing. We need this kind of visible activism. Denial, resignation and despair are not options. By bringing together actors, scientists, journalists and philanthropists, Living Dangerously provides a necessary spark, not just to get a conversation going, but also to put a fire underneath those who have it in their power.
The UN's IPCC report on climate change calls for immediate action to deal with a crisis which supersedes and includes all other questions. Meredith Tax says that international pressure on the US government to deal with the crisis is essential, for soon it will be too late.
The second part of the new IPCC Report has been approved ... the situation is no less serious than it was at the time of the previous report 2007. There is a better understanding of observed impacts worldwide and of the specific situation of many developing countries and there is a new assessment of “smart” options for adaptation to climate change. The report clearly shows that adaptation is an option only if efforts to mitigate greenhouse gas emissions are strengthened.
Nobel laureate says 'people of conscience' must break ties with oil and gas companies that are destroying planet's future.
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Portside discussion - Bernie Sanders for President (Jack Kurzweil);
Announcements: Canadian Ecosocialist Ian Angus speaking in Oakland - April 25th
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