November 2011
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In the 2005 energy bill, largely crafted by... →
climateadaptation:
“Burning Love” The New Yorker, on Marcellus Shale fracking.
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“Some 5 or 6 or 7 billion years from now, the Sun will become a red giant star...”
– Carl Sagan (via cwnl)
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“A wonderful thing happens when you give up on hope, which is that you realize...”
– Derrick Jensen (via cultureofresistance)
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mohandasgandhi: No, what I mean is, the point at...
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Oh ok, agreed. Industrial civilization has already raised temperatures by one degree, and if we don’t act by 2017, it will be two degrees. One degree alone has had devastating effects. I understand what you were saying now.
Two degrees is the benchmark of no return:
On Wednesday, the Paris-based International Energy Agency released its annual “World Energy Outlook.” Among...
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“It may be because we run out of oil, or it may be because of economic collapse...”
– Jan Lundberg, founder of the Alliance for a Paving Moratorium (via cultureofresistance)
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Northwest Oyster Die-offs Show Ocean Acidification... →
cultureofresistance:
The acidification of the world’s oceans from an excess of CO2 emissions has already begun, as evidenced recently by the widespread mortality of oyster larvae in the Pacific Northwest. Scientists say this is just a harbinger of things to come if greenhouse gas emissions continue to soar.
Standing on the shores of Netarts Bay in Oregon on a sunny fall morning, it’s hard to...
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“Having long laid waste our own sanity, and having long forgotten what it feels...”
– Derrick Jensen, Endgame (via cultureofresistance)
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“When a white man kills an Indian in a fair fight it is called honorable, but...”
– Chiksika (via cultureofresistance)
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With Pipeline, Obama Puts Politics Over Nation -... →
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iggyjack:
(NEWSER) – Now that the White House hasdelayed a decision on the controversial Keystone pipeline from Canada until after the 2012 election, Charles Krauthammer wonders: Isn’t this the same president saying, “We can’t wait” to fix the US economy? Obama made the decision solely to “appease his environmentalists” and get them back on his side in the re-election...
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Climate change episode of Frozen Planet won't be... →
hesychia:
so-meta:
An episode of the BBC’s Frozen Planet documentary series that looks at climate change has been scrapped in the U.S., where many are hostile to the idea of global warming.
British viewers will see all seven episodes of the multi-million-pound nature series throughout the Autumn.
But U.S. audiences will not be shown the last episode, which looks at the threat posed by man...
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Keystone XL: Thousands Gather Outside White House... →
cultureofresistance:
The fight over the construction of Keystone XL tar sands oil pipeline reached a pivotal moment on Sunday when an estimated ten thousand demonstrators gathered outside of the White House to call on President Obama to reject the construction of the Keystone XL oil pipeline that, if approved by the White House, could pump millions of barrels of crude oil from tar sands in...
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12,000 Encircle White House In Protest of Keystone... →
theamericanbear:
Today, more than 12,000 people from across the United States and Canada gathered at the White House to call on President Obama to stop the TransCanada Keystone XL tar sands pipeline. After a rally in Lafayette Square addressed by elected officials, youth climate activists, environmental leaders, climate scientist James Hansen, religious leaders, Nobel Peace Laureate Jody...
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Indigenous Canadians Fight for the Tar Sands... →
parkstepp:
Thomas-Müller says there is “no greater example of the unsustainable path this country has set upon than the Canadian tar sands,” and that we “have a moral imperative to stand up and fight for the sacraments of mother earth and guarantee our children and our children’s children will have access to the same natural wonders and beauty.”
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Lakota Tribes "Refuse to Cooperate" With Tar Sands... →
cultureofresistance:
The Keystone XL pipeline and a message from indigenous resistance.
As people gather to protest the greed and corruption of Wall Street in downtown Manhattan and throughout the world, the territories of indigenous peoples and nations have been the front lines of this conflict for a long, long, time.
Clayton Thomas-Muller, of the Pukatawagan Cree Nation, is an anti-tar sands...
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Killing Wolves: A Product of Alberta’s Big Oil and... →
cultureofresistance:
The Alberta government wants to kill of 60-80% of its wolf populations. Why? Because tar sands development has destroyed so much of their natural habitat and caribou population, the wolves are overrunning what little remains. Alberta is one of the last places in North America killing off wolves wholesale.
- Premadasi Amada, Deep Green Resistance organizer
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Billionaire Mayor Bloomberg Outsmarted at Every... →
manicchill:
The 99 Percent has once again outmaneuvered Mayor One Percent. Last week, New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg hoped to use an unannounced “health and safety inspection” to shut down #OccupyWallStreet once and for all. With cold weather coming, the NYPD and FDNY raided Zuccotti Park and seized the fuel and generators used by the demonstrators to power their media center and kitchen,...
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Japanese MP drinks Fukushima water
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It was a simple gulp of water, but one that Japan’s government hopes will carry symbolic importance as it seeks to ease concern over decontamination efforts at the scene of the county’s nuclear crisis.
Yasuhiro Sonoda, an MP in the governing Democratic party of Japan (DPJ), was visibly nervous as his lips met a glass of water collected from inside two reactor buildings at the...
