By Evo Morales, International Journal of Socialist Renewal December 15, 2008 http://www.alternet.org/story/112765/ Sisters and brothers, today our Mother Earth is ill. From the beginning of the 21st century we have lived the hottest years of the last thousand years. Global warming is generating abrupt changes in the weather: the retreat… Continue reading
—————————————————— ” …; society can no longer await the decadal timeframes necessary for a transition to low-carbon energy supply. If the 2 °C threshold is to maintain any meaningful currency, industrialised nations have little option but to radically and urgently curtail their demand for energy.” —————————————- Energy Policy 36 (2008)… Continue reading
More and more of these kinds of eco-restoration (aka re-wilding) projects are critical to mitigating and surviving climate change. In particular, specific measures that would help to protect water supplies (surface, ground, precipitation run-off, etc.) are a crucial first step in any ecosystem in any bio-region…in the case of the… Continue reading
Published on Saturday, December 13, 2008 by Inter Press Service Climate Change: ‘Things Happen Much Faster in the Arctic’ by Stephen Leahy QUEBEC CITY, Canada-In just a few summers from now, the Arctic Ocean will lose its protective cover of ice for the first time in a million years, according… Continue reading