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August 10th, 2005
Death of the Planet

Human Impact on Global Environment

Saw the article below on Truthout, a great progressive news resource. Our collective impact on the planet grows ever more significant and grave. Interestingly, one of our web design clients, Bruce Bratton, a local columnist/commentator whose column now appears exclusively through his web site, BrattonOnline.com, has added a new feature, Land Use Reports from Gary […]

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July 17th, 2005
Death of the Planet

Massive and sudden change in Ocean Behavior off Greenland

Greenland Sea Cold Water Re-Cycling Has Nearly Stopped.
Britain Expected to Become Cooler.
Summary:
Greenland Sea Cold Water Re-Cycling Has Nearly Stopped
May 11, 2005 Cambridge, England - Normally in the Atlantic Ocean,
warm water moves from the Equator up to the British Isles, keeping
England and parts of Europe warmer than Labrador which is at the
same northern latitude. The […]

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March 5th, 2005
Death of the Planet

Orangutan Person: Chantek

Language Garden
Fascinating article on Orion Online about the writer’s encounter with an signing ape… raises serious questions about the nature of consciousness, and the division between “human” and “animal”. Not to mention our collective guilt as a species that is effectively commiting a crime even worse than genocide… “speciescide”, the deliberate extermination of an entire […]

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November 6th, 2004
Green Party, Death of the Planet

Great posting on drawbacks of Genetically Modified Organisms

Saw this in the middle of a Slashdot thread about David Cobb’s candidacy and the Green Party. This is one of the most lucid outlines of why, from a scientific perspective, GMO’s are a bad idea that I’ve ever seen.
basic understanding of GM crop risks

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August 17th, 2004
Death of the Planet

SCIENTISTS ALARMED AT INCREASE IN MELT RATE OF ICE By Hamish Macdonell

SCIENTISTS ALARMED AT INCREASE IN MELT RATE OF ICE By Hamish Macdonell
The Scotsman August 4, 2004
http://news.scotsman.com/scitech.cfm?id=891712004
Greenland’s cover of ice is melting ten times quicker than previously
thought, an increase that could lead to floods across the world, scientists
have found.

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August 17th, 2004
Death of the Planet

Seas Turn to Acid as They Absorb Global Pollution

Seas Turn to Acid as They Absorb Global Pollution
A huge wake-up call…..
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http://news.independent.co.uk/world/environment/story.jsp?story=546761
Seas Turn to Acid as They Absorb Global Pollution
August 1, 2004 -The Independent
Oceans absorbing half of carbon dioxide released, slowing global warming,
but causing catastrophic changes in the marine environment
The world’s oceans are sacrificing themselves to try to stave off global
warming, a major international research […]

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July 1st, 2004
Death of the Planet, Tidbits

The Chernobyl Poems of Lyubov Sirota

Poems by a former resident of the dead city of Pripyat, city nearest the Chernobyl disaster - 50,000 people. Pictures of Pripyat. Haunting, and sad, and authentic.
http://www.wsu.edu/~brians/chernobyl_poems/chernobyl_index.html

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June 18th, 2004
Death of the Planet

Koala’s headed for extinction…

[This prompts rage and tears of sadness.
Where are our leaders? Why the vast silence from the corridors of power?
How can I be anything but a Green, given what is happening? How can anyone?
-Thomas]
http://www.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=scienceNews&storyID=5442289
Koalas, an iconic symbol of Australia, face extinction as rapid urbanization along the eastern seaboard destroys their fragile habitat, environmental activists have […]

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June 18th, 2004
Death of the Planet

http://www.guardian.co.uk/print/0,3858,4949299-103690,00.html
Oil chief: my fears for planet
Shell boss’s ‘confession’ shocks industry
David Adam, science correspondent
Thursday June 17, 2004
The Guardian
The head of one of the world’s biggest oil companies has admitted that the threat of climate change makes him “really very worried for the planet”.
In an interview in today’s Guardian Life section, Ron Oxburgh, chairman of Shell, says […]

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June 10th, 2004
Green Party, Death of the Planet

Slow motion genocide…

[We’re all being turned into the modern day equivalent of the average German citizen in Nazi Germany by the collective indifference of our governing elite. Our collective shame will be irredeemable. -Thomas]
From the Get Vegan weblog:
This echoes the recent findings of UNEP that current trends point to the extinction of bonobo, gorillas, orangutans, and chimpanzees […]

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May 23rd, 2004
Death of the Planet, Geek stuff

Vernor Vinge on “The Technological Singularity”

Source (straight copy, including HTML coding): http://www.ugcs.caltech.edu/~phoenix/vinge/vinge-sing.html

Vernor Vinge
[…]

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January 26th, 2004
Death of the Planet, Guest Blogging

My second article for WatchBlog

I just posted this item, discussing the Green Party Presidential Nomination and associated controversies, over on WatchBlog.com.

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December 23rd, 2003
Death of the Planet

Mad Cow Disease reaches U.S. - “not terrorist related”

Pointer to article: “The first U.S. case of suspected mad cow disease was found in an animal in Washington State the USDA announced tonight. Agriculture Secretary Ann Veneman said that a single “downer” Holstein cow that was either sick or injured and intended for rendering, not food processing, tested presumptively positive for the brain-wasting illness. The farm in Mabton, WA, about 40 miles southeast of Yakima, has been quarantined and meat from other animals in the herd are being traced for testing. The USDA will hold daily briefings on its investigation.”

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December 16th, 2003
Death of the Planet

Re: Alan Greenspan on globalization and it’s discontents…

While I’d be the last one to claim any status as a spokesperson for the “anti-globalization” movement, I feel compelled to respond to Alan Greenspan’s attempt to frame the debate as being between advocates for authoritarian statism and “free markets” under a liberal democracy. While I’d be the first to admit that many folks organizing on issues of globalization might fall into the first category, a lot of us (as George Monbiot discusses in a recent article published in the U.K.’s Guardian newspaper, at http://www.guardian.co.uk/comment/story/0,3604,1087488,00.html) acknowledge the problematic nature of defining this movement as “anti-capitalist”, when all evidence to date indicates that “market economics” is much like “democracy” - the worst of all possible systems (except all the others).

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