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Tue 9 Oct 2007
Posted by Adam under Uncategorized
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Thanks, Mr. Clinton, but It’s Not the Economy!
Alas, We Can’t Go On Living This Way
The end is inevitable: our glut of cars, our thriftless air travel, our food shipped thousands of miles, our single-family houses and strip malls, our endless electronic gadgets, our toxic lawns, our monocropped farms. Exporting damage to our own impoverished communities and to third-world countries, whether it’s in the form of pollution, resource depletion or the chronically unconscionable exploitation of human beings (1), is over.
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Tue 2 Oct 2007
Posted by Adam under Uncategorized
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Death, destruction and the end of civilization seem pretty inconvenient to me . . .
Thanks in no small part to the spectacular success of “An Inconvenient Truth” – which was built on years of foundational work by thousands of researchers, investigators and journalists, as well as Gore’s own study and writings over the years – the American public is rapidly awakening to the irrefutable existence of the climate crisis. That’s the good news.
Here’s the bad news:
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Tue 25 Sep 2007
Posted by Adam under Uncategorized
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If all we’re after is 80% by 2050, it’s hardly worth the effort . . .
Everybody who’s anybody is coming up with ideas for turning down our earthly thermostat. From Al Gore who’s nudging us towards climate reality (1), to the aptly-named Nicholas Stern who has direly warned how many coins it will cost to continue cooking our Earth (2), to the business-sponsored website U.S. Climate Action Partnership for whom money speaks the truth (3), to some of the stars of the environmental movement such as pioneer Bill McKibben (for whom I have the greatest respect) (4), and many, many more – all of these voices are telling us that we have to cut back on our carbon emissions, “dramatically.”
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