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Confronting The Global Triple Crisis – False Solutions To Peak Oil And Climate Change

Dr. Hermann Ott, Mary Anne Hitt, Jutta Kill And Dr. Arjun Makhijani.
In September of 2007 the International Forum on Globalization held a Teach in Washington DC on climate change, peak oil and global resource depletion & extinction. <http://www.ifg.org>
Several Panel meetings addressed the many false solutions to the climate crisis that may be accelerating the danger rather than alleviating it. Coal for example is now promoted as a substitute for oil and promises for the capture of the carbon are made that are not yet possible with current technologies and may never be available on a large scale.
Dr. Hermann Ott is head of the Berlin office of the Wuppertal Institute for Climate, Environment and Energy. He is the co-author [ . . . ]

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Vandana Shiva, Maude Barlow & Daphne Wysham: Confronting The Global Triple Crisis

In September of 2007 the International Forum on Globalization held a Teach in Washington DC on climate change, peak oil and global resource depletion & extinction
Vandana Shiva had just witnessed the arctic melt on Greenland and speaks eloquently about the destructive forces of globalization that are driving the ecological crisis. She also sheds light on the effects of rapid economic growth in her home country, India.
Maude Barlow has completed a new book, entitled: Blue Covenant: The Global Water Crisis and The Coming Battle for the Right to Water. She explains how we are losing water through pollution, over-pumping and displacement while the demands for water are rising. She names the corporations that are in the process of capturing water sources [ . . . ]

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Dr. James Hansen: The Threat To The Planet

How can we avoid dangerous human-made climate change
Dr. James Hansen is one of the few scientists who have consistently warned that the impact that humans have on the climate is bringing about changes that are faster than we ever believed and may be irreversible if action is not taken now. Hansen is Director of the NASA Institute for Space Studies in New York City, and he teaches at Columbia. Since the late 1970s, he has worked on studies of the Earth’s climate. He has run afoul of government censors since the 1980s. Repeatedly his testimony before Congress was suppressed or re-written.
Hansen says that the unprecedented and rising amounts of greenhouse gases added each year AND the speed at which we [ . . . ]

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Interviews With Dr. James Hansen and Dr. Hermann Scheer

Interviews With Dr. James Hansen, Nasa And Dr. Hermann Scheer,
World Council For Renewable Energy And Member Of The German Parliament
Dr. James Hansen is one of the few climate scientists who has consistently warned that the impact that humans have on the climate is bringing about changes that are faster than we ever believed and maybe irreversible if action is not taken now. Hansen is Director of the NASA Institute for Space Studies in New York City, a division of the Goddard Space Flight Center. <http://www.giss.nasa.gov/> Since the late 1970s, he has worked on studies and computer simulations of the Earth’s climate.
Hansen has run afoul of government censors since the 1980s when he was asked to testify before Congress. [ . . . ]

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What Makes Our Lights Go On?

The environmental impacts of large dams and reservoirs
Jacques Leslie is a foreign correspondent turned non-fiction writer who once covered the war on Vietnam for the Los Angeles Times. When he did a cover story for Harper’s Magazine, entitled “Running Dry: What Happens When the World No Longer Has Enough Freshwater?” he began a lasting involvement with the environmental and political issues of water. What Jacques Leslie discovered when he wrote for Harper’s was that “At the core of every argument about water are dams, the modern pyramids, generators of extravagantly apportioned electricity, water storage, and environmental and social disasters …“
Some dams are so huge that they can be seen from space. Dams have shifted so much weight towards the equator [ . . . ]

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Mountaintop Removal In Kentucky

What makes our lights go on?
In September 2006 the poet Wendell Berry, in the company of two members of Kentuckians For The Commonwealth, came to Marin County in Northern California. Coal companies have destroyed one million acres of mountain land and forests and buried 700 miles of streams in order to strip mine coal. Much of that coal is used to produce electricity.
Part ONE: Wendell Berry and Michael Pollan
Part TWO: Teri Blanton and Burt Lauderdale of Kentuckians For The Commonwealth
Wendell Berry grew up on a farm in Kentucky, taught creative writing in college and returned to farming in 1965. He is a prolific author of novels, short stories, poems, and essays. Michael Pollan has written books and articles [ . . . ]

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Dangers of Climate Change

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This SIX-part series is based on audio recordings of the Hadley Centre/MET Office/Exeter/England
In early February of 2005 a headline appeared in the London Independent. It said: “How Mankind Is Sleepwalking to The End Of The Earth; floods, storms and droughts, melting Arctic ice, shrinking glaciers, oceans turning to acid. The world’s top scientists warned last week that dangerous climate change is taking place today, not the day after tomorrow.” The award winning environmental writer Geoffrey Lean wrote these words.
The conference was called: Avoiding Dangerous Climate Change and it was held by request [ . . . ]

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The Bush Wars on Climate Science

Speakers: Myron Ebell, Senator Inhofe, Prof. Chris Rapley
How the Bush Administration undermined climate science and even prevented an agreement on limits of CO2 emissions at the G8 meeting in Scotland. (Myron Ebell and Sen. Inhofe) Also: How science tells us more about the accelerated collapse of earth systems than ever before (Chris Rapley)
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Is Nuclear Power Coming Back?

A four-part mini-series based on a briefing, on November 7 and 8, 2005,
by Dr. Helen Caldicott’s organization, the Nuclear Policy Research Institute
http://www.nuclearpolicy.org/
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Anti nuclear campaigner Dr. Helen Caldicott invited scientists, members of the Bush administration, and journalists for a two-day conference to address the following issues:  What is the connection between nuclear power and war, [ . . . ]

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Derrick Jensen: Bringing Down Civilization

Derrick Jensen wrote in his early book: “Listening to the Land”: “We are members of the most destructive culture ever to exist. Our assault on the natural world, on indigenous and other cultures, on women, on children, on all of us through the possibility of nuclear suicide –all these are unprecedented in their magnitude and ferocity.” And he follows that with a question: “Why do we act as we do? What are sane and effective responses to outrageously destructive behavior? What will it take for us to stop the horrors that characterize our way of  being? My work and life revolve around these questions. “
When I recorded him in the Oakland, California warehouse of AK Press, Derrick Jensen asked that [ . . . ]

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Fast Food World

Vandana Shiva, Wendell Berry, Eric Schlosser, Carlo Petrini & Michael Pollan (3 parts)
Three out of every five Americans are now overweight. Children who eat fast food every day gain an extra 6 pounds every year. It now appears likely that – for the first time in American history – our children will actually have a shorter life span than their parents.
This program about fast food is not just about the fact that grease, sugar, and extra calories make us fat and sick. It is about the giant industries behind fast food that change not only our bodies but the body of the earth and the lives of farmers who traditionally grew our foods.
With a cast of real stars: The physicist [ . . . ]

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Howard Lyman And Mad Cows

His lone fight against some giants of industrial agriculture
(chemical manufacturers and cattle growers)
The Montana rancher Howard Lyman first came to world attention in 1998. He and Ophra Winfrey had been sued by Texas cattlemen and feedlot operators because Lyman had said, on the Ophra show, that mad cow disease might already be in the US. Since Lyman’s warning the first case of mad cow disease has been confirmed in the US. In Part TWO Lyman says we are till feeding cows to cows and test less than 1% of slaughtered cows while Japan is testing every cow.
In Part ONE Lyman explains what chemical agriculture did to his farm, his family and himself, and what gave him the strength to keep [ . . . ]

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Laurie Garrett: Emerging Diseases in a World Out of Balance

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The Coming Plague is an extraordinary first-hand account of the spread and mutation of carriers of infectious diseases and the emergence of new, often deadly, viruses . She comments on the impact of global warming, urbanization, and the contamination of our food supply.

Howard Lyman with Dr. Virgil Hulse

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Howard Lyman and Dr. Virgil Hulse discuss whether we can afford to continue our current eating habits. Dr. Hulse was one of the advisors to the Oprah Winfrey lawsuit. He is a family doctor and former dairy inspector who warns of widespread infestation of US cow herds by bovine leukemia and the bovine AIDS virus.