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  • The Anti-Social Bastards in Our Midst : The Car Is Turning Us Into A Nation Of Libertarians
    27 December 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    by George Monbiot
    The road rage lobby couldn’t have been more wrong. Organisations like the Association of British Drivers and "Safe Speed" - the boy racers’ club masquerading as a road safety campaign - have spent years claiming that speeding doesn’t cause accidents. Safe Speed, with the help of some of the most convoluted arguments I’ve ever read, even seeks to prove that speed cameras "make our roads more dangerous"(1). Other groups, such as Motorists Against Detection (officially known (…)

  • The Coming Meltdown (A Review)
    27 December 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    By Bill McKibben
    The year 2005 has been the hottest year on record for the planet, hotter than 1998, 2002, 2004, and 2003. More importantly, perhaps, this has been the autumn when the planet has shown more clearly than before just what that extra heat means. Consider just a few of the findings published in the major scientific journals during the last three months: Arctic sea ice is melting fast. There was 20 percent less of it than normal this summer, and as Dr. Mark Serreze, one of the (…)

  • Senate Blocks Alaska Refuge Drilling
    22 December 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    By H. JOSEF HEBERT
    WASHINGTON - A quarter-century long fight over the nation’s most divisive environmental issue rages on after the Senate on Wednesday rejected opening an Alaska wildlife refuge to oil drilling - even though that provision was included in a must-pass bill that funds U.S. troops overseas and hurricane victims.
    It was a stinging defeat for Sen. Ted Stevens (news, bio, voting record), R-Alaska, one of the Senate’s most powerful members, who had hoped to garner more votes by (…)

  • Political Science
    22 December 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    by JOHN HORGAN
    Last spring, a magazine asked me to look into a whistleblower case involving a United States Fish and Wildlife Service biologist named Andy Eller. Eller, a veteran of 18 years with the service, was fired after he publicly charged it with failing to protect the Florida panther from voracious development. One of the first species listed under the Endangered Species Act, the panther haunts southwest Florida’s forests, which builders are transforming into gated golf communities. (…)

  • Polar bears drown as ice shelf melts
    22 December 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    by Will Iredale
    SCIENTISTS have for the first time found evidence that polar bears are drowning because climate change is melting the Arctic ice shelf.
    The researchers were startled to find bears having to swim up to 60 miles across open sea to find food. They are being forced into the long voyages because the ice floes from which they feed are melting, becoming smaller and drifting farther apart.
    Although polar bears are strong swimmers, they are adapted for swimming close to the (…)

  • Coca-Cola Faces Mounting Pressure over Abusive Practices at Plants Worldwide
    22 December 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    by Haider Rizvi
    NEW YORK, (OneWorld) - Coca-Cola, the multinational soft drink giant, is facing the wrath of rights advocacy groups here in the United States and abroad for refusing to take responsibility for abusive practices at its bottling plants.
    While a number of universities and colleges in the United States have already banned the sale of Coke products on their campuses, mounting pressure from student bodies throughout Europe is pushing hundreds of schools to terminate their (…)

  • Climate campaigners claim greatest ever success at Montreal
    13 December 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Humiliation for Bush as last-minute twist means an isolated US is forced to sign up for future talks on global warming
    By Andrew Buncombe in Montreal and Geoffrey Lean
    The fight against catastrophic global warming scored its greatest success to date yesterday, when negotiators from more than 180 nations unexpectedly agreed to develop far-reaching measures to combat climate change.
    In the process, the delegates to the climate summit in Montreal dealt a humiliating blow to President (…)

  • GLOBAL WARNING
    13 December 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    The Kilinailau Islands—also known as the Tulun Islands, or the Carteret Atoll—which lie four hundred miles from the coast of Papua New Guinea, are tiny, low, and impoverished. Their fate, thanks to global warming, has long been a foregone conclusion. In 1995, most of the shoreline of Piul and Huene washed away, and the island of Iolasa was cut in half by the sea. Saltwater intrusion has now reached the point where islanders can no longer grow breadfruit, and have to rely on emergency food (…)

  • The Plague Upon Eden
    13 December 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Taken from: www.valenzuelasveritas.blogspot.com
    Eden Defined
    Such a spectacular and magnificent entity is the planet we call Earth, a wonderment of natural beauty and symbiotic balance yet to be surpassed by the creative genius of humankind. It is a planet teeming with the colors of life, its oceans and continents gems of existence, an overabundance of beating hearts and flowing energy. The planet we call our only home is a living, breathing, dynamic cocktail of universal energy, for (…)

  • Bush Threatens U.N. Over Clinton Climate Speech
    11 December 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Bush-administration officials privately threatened organizers of the U.N. Climate Change Conference, telling them that any chance there might’ve been for the United States to sign on to the Kyoto global-warming protocol would be scuttled if they allowed Bill Clinton to speak at the gathering today in Montreal, according to a source involved with the negotiations who spoke to New York Magazine on condition of anonymity.
    Bush officials informed organizers of their intention to pull out of (…)