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Climate Crisis
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Dahr Jamail | The Vanishing Arctic Ice Cap
Arctic sea ice researchers are predicting that sea ice will no longer last through summers in the next couple of years, and even US Navy researchers have predicted an …
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Beautiful Sunsets (and Sunrises) in Art
While scientists have been telling us about earth's climate in the deep past, and into the distant future, artists on the other hand, have been bearing witness, in the …
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Climate Change
One party still insists on burying their heads in the sand.
Do Humans Have a Madness Gene That Will Ensure the End of the Planet as We Know It?
Journalist Elizabeth Kolbert explores the likely extinction of a massive number of species - because of the destructive practices of humans - in the book "The Sixth Extinction: An …
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On Climate Impasse: Appetite and Substitutes
Subhankar Banerjee makes the connection between climate change and inaction on it, and other US social problems.
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Believe It Or Not, Shell, of All Companies, Gets It
Shell gets that unless things change quickly, another big financial market bubble will burst. It's called the “Carbon Bubble,” and it's a very simple equation.
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The Legacy That We Are Leaving: The Extinction of Species
There have been five great extinctions of species on Earth, all of them due to natural causes. In a gripping book, Elizabeth Kolbert explores the ongoing sixth extinction of …
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Twelve Simple Propositions: Climate Change and the Asia Pivot
A meaningful “Asia Pivot” would meaningfully address the greatest security threat to that region and the whole planet: climate change.
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Hope Dies Last
Last week Guy McPherson had some terrifying things to say about the future of the planet on Thom Hartmann's radio program. He said we are experiencing such a rapidly …
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What Comes After Capitalism?
The economy will crash again because we are so addicted to constant growth, and quarterly capitalism that the global financial elite will march us to the edge of the …