REGARDS FROM TAHRIR SQUARE REVOLT IN SPAINCROSSING THE SUN DOOR PLAZA DEL SOLBy CONCHA MATEOSJune 1, 2011Something that looked impossible is happening.Not a miracle: there is no God acting, no divine intervention. Only human will and the crowd.Thousands of people were there, with the same ideas, the same objectives, the same desire for change. They lived in different places and cities and countries, but they were in reality at the same Puerta del Sol, although none of them did know.One day of May 2011 they happened to gather together driven by...
Wednesday, 1 June 2011
GLOBAL WARMING CLIMATE ON THE BRINK
CLIMATE ON THE BRINKMay 30, 2011In keeping with predictions made by the world’s most sober and clear-eyed climate and energy experts, the rate of increase in greenhouse gas emissions is occurring more rapidly than official reports forecast, and a disastrous average global temperature rise of more than 2 degrees Celsius appears imminent and unavoidable. The faster-than-expected increase in greenhouse gas emissions is due to expanding, under-regulated economic activity, which is the one aspect of the climate crisis that humans could do something...
GLOBAL WARMING THE SKY REALLY IS FALLING
THE SKY REALLY IS FALLINGBy Chris HedgesMay 30, 2011The rapid and terrifying acceleration of global warming, which is disfiguring the ecosystem at a swifter pace than even the gloomiest scientific studies predicted a few years ago, has been confronted by the power elite with two kinds of self-delusion. There are those, many of whom hold elected office, who dismiss the science and empirical evidence as false. There are others who accept the science surrounding global warming but insist that the human species can adapt. Our only salvation—the rapid...
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