Topic: Mainstream Media
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Oct
by Mark Bittman, NY Times food columnist, October 19, 2012 It’s becoming clear that we can grow all the food we need, and profitably, with far fewer chemicals. And I’m not talking about imposing some utopian vision of small organic farms on the world. Conventional agriculture can shed much of its chemical use — if [...]
14
Oct
Temperature Records Broken : Reuters Posted by Andre Charles Piver on March 27, 2012 at 5:05pm Send Message   View Blog http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/03/23/climate-heat-usa-idUSL2E8… US heat ‘unprecedented,’ 7,000 records set or tied inShare13 Share this Email Print Related News Oceans’ acidic shift may be fastest in 300 million years Thu, Mar 1 2012 Analysis & Opinion Busting [...]
14
Oct
Scientific American: Has Civilization Passed the Point of No Return? Apocalypse Soon: Has Civilization Passed the Environmental Point of No Return? Although there is an urban legend that the world will end this year based on a misinterpretation of the Mayan calendar, some researchers think a 40-year-old computer program that predicts a collapse of socioeconomic [...]
8
Sep
From the NY Times’ Green: A blog about energy and the environment “…As many Green readers know, agriculture is not just a potential victim of climate change — it is also a major cause. It helps to drive extensive deforestation in the tropics, consumes fossil fuels and puts a powerful greenhouse gas, nitrous oxide, into [...]
12
Jun
Actually something more immediate will force change much sooner. You are not going to like it: United Nations and Pentagon studies predict population growth (the main driver of all economic growth) will create unsustainable natural-resources demands as early as 2020 with global population exploding from seven to 10 billion by 2050. So expect Depression Era austerity, unemployment and a new no-growth economy. Will we change? In time? Plan ahead? No, we won’t wake up without a collapse. We know the Myth of Perpetual Growth is pure fiction. But we also know our leaders, capitalists, economists and politicians all live in a collective conscience that must believe in this bizarre myth in order to justify everything they believe about the future, about progress, about income and wealth increasing, about a better life.
23
Mar
The Star: Climate change refugees need help from world Published on Monday December 31, 2007 The House of God is shrinking. So named by the traditional Maasai people who live in its shadows, Tanzania’s Mount Kilimanjaro is undergoing a slow but steady transformation – one that threatens everyone around it. The majestic glaciers that cap [...]
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Mar
Global Warming: Enough to Make You Sick By Jia-Rui Chong The Los Angeles Times Sunday 25 February 2007 Rising temperatures are redistributing bacteria, insects and plants, exposing people to diseases they’d never encountered before. Reprinted on Truthout:  http://archive.truthout.org/article/global-warming-enough-make-you-sick