350: Demonstrate today, act tomorrow
Today, October 24, is Climate Action Day. Tomorrow, we must not sit down, but keep to our feet, and press forward.
Politics
ODAC Newsletter – Oct 23
This week ODAC welcomes the publication of two important reports. In its excellent Heads in the Sand report, Global Witness provides one of the clearest summaries of the peak oil issue to date, including a trenchant critique of the IEA’s position…
Climate & environment – Oct 22
-China’s ‘carbon intensity’ commitment means nothing
-Let’s Try Cap-and-Trade on Babies
-Illusions on the edge of a precipice
-How to stop doubting and love the climate models
-Baffin Island reveals dramatic scale of Arctic climate change
-The Economic Case for Slashing Carbon Emissions
-The Cold we Caused
Food & agriculture – Oct 22
-A New Direction on Research at the USDA? The Experts Weigh In
-USDA and EPA Pushing Coal Ash for Growing Crops
-‘We need to pay farmers … to protect nature’
-Economic crisis exposes fragile global food system, new UN report says
World Food Prize Conference – Oct 22
-Green Fields: Economist’s advice to Big Food: Change or face fate of GM
-Global leaders gather in Iowa for World Food Prize, talks on food, agriculture security
-Bill Gates reveals support for GMO ag
-Gates gives $120 million to help poor nations farm
More Like A Depression Every Day
The American economy has reached a dangerous new phase. We are now in the “recovery” period, but what kind of rebound will we have? In No L, Professor James Hamilton (along with Paul Krugman) takes note of some positive news from the Fed.
The BNP and the BBC – Oct 22
-BBC is right to allow BNP on Question Time, says Mark Thompson
-BNP: Thank you Auntie for giving us such a boost
-10 things you should know about the BNP when you watch Question Time tonight
-How the BNP came in from the cold
Water – Oct 21
-Conservationists rip water policy, quit state panel
-Finding Water from Outer Space
-Melting Himalayan ice prompts conflict fear
Strange Bright Banners
Social critics have pointed out with some justice that today’s industrial states are troubled, corrupt, and dysfunctional. It’s too often remembered, though, that as the pressures of resource depletion come to bear, what replaces them need not be an improvement.
Resilience Thinking: an article for the latest ‘Resurgence’
In July 2009, UK Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change Ed Miliband unveiled the government’s UK Low Carbon Transition Plan, a bold and powerful statement of intent for a low-carbon economy in the UK…There is, though, a key flaw in the document, which also appears in much of the wider societal thinking about climate change. This flaw is the attempt to address the issue of climate change without also addressing a second, equally important issue: that of resilience.
Afghanistan/Pakistan – Oct 20
-Obama at the Precipice
-Fighting the Taliban
-Is Escalation Obama’s Only Choice in Afghanistan?
-Pakistan targets key Taliban town
US and fossil fuels – friend or foe? – Oct 20
-Fossil Fuels’ Hidden Cost Is in Billions, Study Says
-Will EPA veto or regulate the plunder of Appalachia?
-Global Warming Accelerating While The U.S. Backpedals
