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Hijacking the American Plane of State: Old Scripts and Empty Stories Signal a New Age
If you want a news story that will glue eyes, then think of it this way: on September 12, 2001, the national security state entered the cockpit of the …
UN Climate Panel Issues Dire Warning of Threat to Global Food Supply, Calls for Action and Adaption
The United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change has issued its most dire warning yet about how greenhouse gases have driven up global temperatures and extreme weather, while threatening …
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Noam Chomsky | The Prospects for Survival
Noam Chomsky: The US government's regular, easy acceptance of threats to survival is almost too extraordinary to capture in words.
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Is It Time To Charge People With Ecocide?
Our public officials, elected representatives and business leaders could all be guilty of crimes against humanity.
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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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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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Dying To Give Back To the Earth
The funeral industry is, by and large, a $20 billion for-profit enterprise, whose environmental impact has been greatly overlooked.
NASA Climate Predictions Show Serious Threat to Humanity
Dahr Jamail says that though some journalists avoid linking weather patterns to climate change, global warming still exists.
Abrupt Climate Change: No Bioperturbation
“Climate change” is not the most critical issue facing society today; abrupt climate change is.