June 14, 2008
World rice shortage
World rice shortage By Marina Johnson "They're taking no chances with this year's harvest on the farms in Supamburri. Alongside the heavy machinery, there's a new feature: shotguns. The message is clear: Hand off my rice." ITV News Correspondent, Inigo Gilmore ("Rising Food...
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June 2, 2008
Location, Location, Re-location
Location, Location, Re-location By Carolyn Baker of Speaking Truth to Power For approximately ten days last month I traveled across the United States from my former home in New Mexico to my new home in Vermont. My journey has been the culmination of...
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May 23, 2008
Rapid Unveiling and the Demise of Adolescent America
Rapid Unveiling and the Demise of Adolescent America By Carolyn Baker of Speaking Truth to Power Well here it is folks-the great unraveling so many of us have been forecasting during the past five years as we've read the tea leaves and researched the unprecedented convergence of myriad...
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May 18, 2008
Evolve or die: Can we shed our moral primitivism before it’s too late?
Evolve or die: Can we shed our moral primitivism before it’s too late? I would like to recommend to you an excellent interview Evolve or die: Can we shed our moral primitivism before it’s too late? posted at Thomas Paine's Corner. This interview of Steven Best by Jason Miller is an excellent discussion...
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May 9, 2008
12 Stepping Our Way to Armageddnon
12 Stepping Our Way to Armageddnon By Carolyn Baker of Speaking Truth to Power The end of everything we call life is close at hand and cannot be evaded. H.G. Wells, 1946 I recently received an email from a reader, frustrated with my insistence on holding...
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April 23, 2008
Recipe for Catastrophe: Climate, Fuel, and Food
Recipe for Catastrophe: Climate, Fuel, and Food Food riots turn deadly in Haiti. Food riots fear after rice price hits a high. And so it starts. Globally there has been roughly a 25% increase in food prices. In some areas - such as Haiti - food...
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November 18, 2007
Oil and Climate
Oil and Climate By Marilyse Crise de l'énergie et changements climatiques, La fortune et la famine, La Fontaine, 18 novembre 2007 Energy crisis and climate change, wealth and famine, La Fontaine, November 18th, 2007...
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December 3, 2006
U.S. Not the Only Nation Spinning Global Warming
U.S. Not the Only Nation Spinning Global Warming While the world has been more than frustrated with the lack of action on the part of the United States, China is not moving very far very fast either. Perhaps part of the reason resides in the information that the...
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November 18, 2006
Shall The Cradle Fall?
Shall The Cradle Fall? Africa, the home of the human race. Science indicates she birthed us. She nurtured our infancy. Some went out from her to spread across the Earth. Others stayed and continued an unbroken relationship with our birthplace. Africa was, and is,...
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October 31, 2006
Peak Oil, Global Warming, Oh My!
Peak Oil, Global Warming, Oh My! Peak oil and global warming - the Janus catastrophes of our times. Entwined and interrelated, they are equally symptoms of systemic collapse. We face the collapse of natural systems, caused by the insanity of social systems, and leading to the...
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July 23, 2006
The Planet is Sizzling
The Planet is Sizzling The Guardian headline says it all "100º - get used to it." It is clear that the earth is not just dealing with a heat wave. The news of the heat is dire, but the implications are starting to hit...
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July 11, 2006
Server Farms and the Environment
Server Farms and the Environment Perhaps I am a bit slow, but a report on NPR called "Cheap and Reliable Power Nurtures Server Farms" stunned me. Back in about 1994, I was meeting with a group of internet consultants about connecting a program I worked...
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May 31, 2006
What Effects Would A Massive U.S. Heatwave Be?
What Effects Would A Massive U.S. Heatwave Be? If the 2003 European heatwave had occurred in the US what would have been the effects? In 2003 Europe was hit by the most extreme heatwave since meteorological measurements began. Not only where records for max temperature broken but...
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May 17, 2006
Global Warming: Who Lives Who Dies?
Global Warming: Who Lives Who Dies? It seems easy sitting in the most consuming, capitalist nation in the world to think that global warming is not a big deal. There is a belief that no matter what nature throws this way that "technology" can handle it....
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February 19, 2006
Katrina Is Not History
Katrina Is Not History As the investigation into the failed response to Hurricane Katrina drags on, we see what has become a pattern of graft, cronyism, incompetence. FEMA's almost billion dollar purchase of mobile and modular homes largely sit decaying in a filed in...
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February 17, 2006
Global Warming Is Accelerating
Global Warming Is Accelerating There are a flurry of articles coming out about the acceleration of global warming. This is because of the reports coming out of the American Association for the Advancement of Science Annual Conference which is currently in session (2.16-2.20) in...
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January 31, 2006
Liberty Lost - Chaos Reigns
Liberty Lost - Chaos Reigns A lot of things have changed since George W. Bush went into office in 2001. Maybe my bias shows in saying that I can't think of one of those changes that have been positive. But a series of changes are...
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December 31, 2005
More Bad News Ahead
More Bad News Ahead How far do greenhouse gas emissions need to drop in order to change the global warming path we are on? According to Guy Brasseur, Max Planck Institute for Meteorology 80 to90%. Well that level of emissions decrease would mean stopping...
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November 20, 2005
Consequences Of Global Warming Hits Hardest At Those With The Least
Consequences Of Global Warming Hits Hardest At Those With The Least A report released by the World Health Organization says that 150,000 people a year are dying from the effects of global warming, and that number could double in the next 15 years. The report is discussed in a Washington Post...
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November 2, 2005
Global Warming And Poverty - Not A One Way Street
Global Warming And Poverty - Not A One Way Street The title reads UN Warns of Poverty as World's Lakes Evaporate. The story goes that the warming climate is drying up lakes around the world, as they dry up the poverty of the populations dependent on them also increases -...
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October 31, 2005
Rebuilding The South With Immigrant Sweat: Business As Usual
Rebuilding The South With Immigrant Sweat: Business As Usual In the wake of hurricane Katrina, Bush swore to rebuild New Orleans (and one presumes the rest of the hurricane devastated area). No bid contracts were handed out to the usual crew of military favorites - including Halliburton. To speed...
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October 28, 2005
Evangelical Platform: Homosexuals, Abortion, and Global Warming?
Evangelical Platform: Homosexuals, Abortion, and Global Warming?On last week's Living on Earth, which you should really be listening to anyway, Reverend Richard Cizik, director of governmental affairs for the National Association of Evangelicals, laid out his organization's plan for helping the environment.
No, seriously. Stop laughing!
I'm as shocked as you are, but as Cizik points out, any biblical Christian really SHOULD care about the environment.
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October 13, 2005
Global Warming and Natural Gas
Global Warming and Natural Gas The Northeastern and Midwest United States are facing a colder than usual winter and the warnings are out about a dramatic increase in natural gas prices. However, while the hurricanes are largely being blamed for the US problem, it is...
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October 7, 2005
Gulf Coast Debacle Off the Headlines, But Not Over
Gulf Coast Debacle Off the Headlines, But Not Over It seems that the corporate media has agreed to largely go back to "business as usual," and the ongoing crisis along the Gulf Coast from hurricanes Katrina and Rita are shoved to the background. The reality is that the "relief"...
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September 16, 2005
The Invisible Victims of Katrina
The Invisible Victims of Katrina The devastating aftermath of Hurricane Katrina has brought the issues of race and class into high relief. As is typical of the cultural ideology of racism, the issue is drawn in Black and White. Underneath this cultural dichotomy lies the...
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September 2, 2005
Disaster From Bad To Worse
Disaster From Bad To Worse I keeping hoping for the tide to turn. It is not. The domino effect continues. The lack of effective response continues. The death toll rises. Now there is a chemical plant burning in New Orleans. As expected, no one can...
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August 19, 2005
The Price Of Oil
The Price Of Oil The price of a barrel of oil has dropped back slightly from it's $67 a barrel spot, but don't hold your breath on it staying there or dropping much further. Recent reports of protests in Ecuador shutting down oil exports,...
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August 11, 2005
Global Warming - Have We Hit the "Tipping Point?"
Global Warming - Have We Hit the "Tipping Point?" The frozen peat tundra of Siberia is thawing, and this will speed global warming. The peat tundra covers about 1 million square miles, and as it thaws tons of methane could be released into the atmosphere. Since global warming predictions...
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August 9, 2005
More Oil Price Increases
More Oil Price Increases The Independent (UK) takes today's prize for reporting on petroleum price increases and the effects of them with three articles in one day. The Guardian (UK) comes in a close second with two stories. What is driving the stories is...
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July 26, 2005
Melting Ice Sheet Bodes Doom for Coasts
Melting Ice Sheet Bodes Doom for Coasts Independent scientists aboard the Greenpeace ship Arctic Sunrise have measured a dramatic increase in both the melting and the retreat of Kangerdlugssuaq glacier in Greenland. [picture]. The Helheim Glacier is also "disintegrating"....
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July 22, 2005
Please Don't Sell Us Out
Please Don't Sell Us Out As the so-called "energy" bill wends its way to law, the oil companies are trying to get off cheap and get what they want by offering to throw $2 billion into cleaning up MTBE (and other environmentally hazardous additives) into...
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June 10, 2005
How Much Will Global Warming Cost? Look At Shishmaref
How Much Will Global Warming Cost? Look At Shishmaref Shishmaref is an island off the coast of Alaska which is the home to roughly 562 Inupiats. The island has been disappearing at a rate of 13 to 22 feet a year. The Army Corps of Engineers will be moving...
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May 29, 2005
Taxing Gas Guzzlers?
Taxing Gas Guzzlers? The headline from the UK reads "Owners of gas-guzzling cars to be hit by five-fold tax increase." The proposed tax would rise from 150 pounds a year to 900. The proposal is aimed at attacking the production of greenhouse gases,...
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April 29, 2005
Global Warming? Let's Not Talk About That
Global Warming? Let's Not Talk About That The Republican party's talking points say not to use the term "global warming", but to use "climate change" instead. Bush has been resistant to even using that, but the General Accountability Office is warning that the administration's legally mandated research...
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April 10, 2005
Environmental collapse - sooner not later
Environmental collapse - sooner not later There is an interesting article in the February 9, 2004 edition of Fortune Magazine - CLIMATE COLLAPSE - The Pentagon's Weather Nightmare (permalink - by David Stipp. The Pentagon is apparently taking "climate change" seriously even if the White House...
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April 3, 2005
Choosing A Path Or A Path Already Chosen?
Choosing A Path Or A Path Already Chosen? We are in the midst of three interlocking crises - the end of oil, global warming with potential climate collapse, and environmental collapse. They are not somewhere out in the future, they are here now. Every new report only affirms...
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