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Category Archives: ENVIRONMENT
Halliburton’s Return: Oil Spill Puts Symbol Of Cronyism And Corruption Back In The News
By Dan Froomkin HUFFINGTON POST It seems increasingly likely that when investigators determine the precise cause of the oil-rig explosion that threatens to poison huge swaths of the Gulf of Mexico, what they’ll conclude is that something went catastrophically wrong … Continue reading
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Marx and Sustainability
A couple of links that present sides of Marx that have almost been completely suppressed: Marx’s Vision of Sustainable Human Development Karl Marx the ecologist And then of course there’s John Bellamy Foster’s Marx’s Ecology: Materialism and Nature; and Ecology … Continue reading
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Tropics in Decline as Natural Resources Exhausted at Alarming Rate
ScienceDaily (Oct. 18, 2010) New analysis shows populations of tropical species are plummeting and humanity’s demands on natural resources are sky-rocketing to 50 per cent more than the earth can sustain, reveals the 2010 edition of WWF’s Living Planet Report … Continue reading
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Opening Gambit: Moore’s Flaw
BY CHARLES HOMANS Foreign Policy Magazine Next year marks the 50th birthday of the first commercially produced silicon microchip, a device that has arguably reordered society more profoundly than any invention since the internal combustion engine. It will also be … Continue reading
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Banksy Creates Dark Opening For ‘The Simpsons’
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FLOW: For Love Of Water
Irena Salina’s award-winning documentary investigation into what experts label the most important political and environmental issue of the 21st Century – The World Water Crisis. Salina builds a case against the growing privatization of the world’s dwindling fresh water supply … Continue reading
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Study: US Food Waste Is a Huge Energy Drain
by Hugh Collins Contributor AOL news (Oct. 2) — Forget drafty windows and aging cars — a new study says one of the biggest wastes of energy in America could be the food in your garbage can. Every rotten tomato … Continue reading
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Chilean Economist Manfred Max-Neef: US Is Becoming an “Underdeveloping Nation”
Via Gordon Winiemko: On Democracy NOW!: While President Obama is reporting looking into tapping a former corporate executive to become his next top economic adviser, many economists question the path the United States is on. We speak to the acclaimed … Continue reading
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The American dream: Is it slipping away?
By Gregory Rodriguez The Los Angeles Times An ABC News/Yahoo News poll revealed that today, only half of us think the American dream — which the pollsters defined as ‘if you work hard you’ll get ahead’ — still holds true, … Continue reading
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