marklynas.orgThe global warming century 13 September 05
I don’t want to try and paraphrase such a well-written and erudite article, so I’ll merely quote the first para: “If the images of skyscrapers collapsed in heaps of ash were the end of one story - the United States safe on its isolated continent from the turmoil of the world - then the picture of the sodden Superdome with its peeling roof marks the beginning of the next story, the one that will dominate our politics in the coming decades of this century: an America befuddled about how to cope with a planet suddenly unstable and unpredictable.” Read the rest of Bill McKibben’s excellent piece here.
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Lynn Vincentnathan
September 13th, 2005 at 09:53 PM
which I agree is the most serious issue. If we are to add all other environmental problems & all other problems into the pot….Well, we get a pretty dangerous stew. Even dystopia sci-fi writers would fall short on describing it.
Now, again, what are the reasons we should not address GW?—I’ve seemed to have forgotten the contrarians’ arguments…..
Lynn Vincentnathan
September 15th, 2005 at 04:47 PM
Apparently authorities now want to use massive amounts of bleach to disinfect New Orleans, which would have disasterous consequences. There is a natural treatment that was used after the tsanami in SE Asia and in German floods in the past that is very effective & safe: “effective microoganisms.” I think this is also called “bioremediation.” Anyway you can go to http://www.emamerica.com to learn more. Apparently it has not be approved yet in the U.S. (and the approval process is lengthy), so we need to contact the media & others to push this through.
(If this was posted twice, this one has the correct web address.)