Activism

Climate – Sept 5

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Climate activists target Asia-Pacific summit in Australia
Controversial Greenpeace ad on climate change
2 out of 3 Canadians polled say warming is ‘very serious’
Nobel Prize winning economist Schelling on a post-Kyoto agreement

Can ecologists save the ecosphere?

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Whenever ecologists gather, we might expect them to be screaming at the top of their lungs (or at least doing what passes for this in academic circles) about the imminent peril in which we humans find ourselves. But at a recent annual meeting of the Ecological Society of America (ESA), those figurative screams could only be rated as somewhere between muffled and nonexistent.

Climate – Sept 2

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Greek forest fires could be CO2 threat
Climate change brings ticks ever closer

Al Gore, James Hansen, and civil disobedience

NASA scientists challenge security rules- claim agency may be trying to silence them about global warming

Right, schmight, left, schmeft

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“Transitioning gracefully from the Age of Excess to the Era of Modesty” – the subtitle of Richard Heinberg’s forthcoming book – invokes not just an era of more modest usage, but also social, sexual and cultural modesty, subjects that, if they are discussed at all, tend to be thought of as discussions to be had on the “right” rather than throughout the political spectrum.