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Ecological Disaster

Jeremy Grantham Has Bad News and Good News

Robert Walker | Posted 05.07.2013 | Green
Read More: Population, Population Growth, Ecological Disaster, Resource Scarcity, Family Planning, World Economy, Carbon Tax, Jeremy Grantham, Environment, Climate Change, Economic Growth, Food Security, Green News
Robert Walker

Grantham's greatest concern, though far from his only one, is that the world's farmers may not be able to produce enough food at affordable prices to feed the 9 billion or so people that are projected to inhabit the planet by mid-century or sooner.

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Buddhism And The Fate Of The Species

John Stanley | Posted 07.12.2011 | Religion
Read More: Green Living, Religion and Science, Green Economy, Green Faith, Buddhism, Noam Chomsky, Eco-Theology, Ecological Disaster, Sakya Trizin Rinpoche, Eco-Buddhism Project, Ecological Buddhism, Religion News
John Stanley

As weather-related disasters increase every year and the world begins to burn, the very fate of our species is being treated as a mere "externality" by free market ideology.

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Why America Slept

Reverend Billy | Posted 05.29.2011 | Impact
Read More: Empire, Apocalypse, Save the World, Natural Disasters, Entertainment, Bombs, Militarism, Media, Stream of Conscious, Existential, Culture, Mass Extinctions, Privatizing, Consumerism, Tsunami, Reverend Billy Talen, Humanism, Suburbia, Revolution, Climate Change, White Privilege, Gadget, Ecological Disaster, Technology, Epitaph, Disaster Capitalism, American Dream, Impact News
Reverend Billy

America was sleeping deeply, in a dream whose creators were hiding inside skyscrapers with smoked glass.

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Jason Linkins

Director Of Mining Company ARRESTED Over Danube Pollution In Hungary

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 05.25.2011 | Green
Read More: Danube Disaster, Danube River, Danube, Hungary Pollution, Danube Sludge, Mal Zrt, Hungary, Zoltan Bakonyi, Danube Pollution, Eat the Press, Marcal River, Toxic Sludge, Aluminum, Budapest, Ecological Disaster, Aluminum Plant, Ajkai Timfoldgyar Plant, Green News, Hungary Flood, Hungary Sludge Flood, Danube River @Y:World, Green News

One of the things I learned this summer is that if I were to walk across the street and destroy the local Starbucks with sledgehammers and Molotov coc...

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Hungary Toxic Sludge: Cracked Reservoir Wall Will Inevitably Collapse

AP | PABLO GORONDI | Posted 05.25.2011 | Green
Read More: Ajkai Timfoldgyar Plant, Aluminum, Aluminum Plant, Budapest, Danube River @Y:World, Ecological Disaster, Hungary, Hungary Flood, Hungary Sludge Flood, Marcal River, Toxic Sludge, Green News, Green News

KOLONTAR, Hungary — The owners of the metals plant whose reservoir burst, flooding several towns in western Hungary with caustic red sludge, exp...

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Toxic Hungary Sludge Could Spill Again, Government Warns

AP | PABLO GORONDI AND BELA SZANDELSZKY | Posted 05.25.2011 | Green
Read More: Hungary Flood, Ecological Disaster, Toxic Sludge, Aluminum Plant, Marcal River, Ajkai Timfoldgyar Plant, Hungary Sludge Flood, Budapest, Hungary, Danube River @Y:World, Aluminum, Green News

DEVECSER, Hungary — The cracking wall of an industrial plant reservoir appeared on the verge of collapse late Saturday, and engineers were worki...

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Hungary Flood Of Toxic Sludge An 'Ecological Disaster' (PHOTOS)

Posted 05.25.2011 | World
Read More: Toxic Waste, Ecological Disaster, Aluminum Plant, Hungary, Marcal River, Ajkai Timfoldgyar Plant, Toxic Sludge, Hungary Sludge Flood, Budapest, Slidefullscreen, Danube River @Y:World, Aluminum, Slidepollajax, Hungary Flood, World News

DEVECSER, Hungary (AP) - Hungary declared a state of emergency in three counties Tuesday after a flood of toxic red sludge from an alumina plant engul...

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Slippery Oil Slicks

Bob Franken | Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics
Read More: Ecological Disaster, Regulators, President Obama, Bp, Oil, Financial Regulation, Senate, Offshore Drilling, Politics News
Bob Franken

Don't be surprised if the Deepwater Horizon tragedy will be the newest excuse for a big jump in gasoline prices. We know that Oil Slick is also another name for energy company executives.

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Rev. Jesse Jackson Discusses the Current Political Landscape (Part 1)

Kathleen Wells, J.D. | Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics
Read More: Texas School Board, Economic Recovery, Talking About Race, Rand Paul, Bp, Oil Spill, Racial Equity, Civil Rights Act, Racism, Rev. Jesse Jackson, Arizona, Ecological Disaster, Tea Party, Stimulus, Voting Rights Act, The-Harkin-Bill, States' Rights, Politics News
Kathleen Wells, J.D.

The Reverend Jesse Louis Jackson, Sr., founder and president of the Rainbow PUSH Coalition, is one of America's foremost civil rights, religious and p...

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BP TARP and SLIME

Bob Franken | Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics
Read More: Government Takeover, Ecological Disaster, Energycompanies, Bp, Economic Disaster, Regulators, Politics News
Bob Franken

How sad it is that the energy company enablers in our government don't determine that the Gulf coast is "Too Big to Fail". Maybe then they would sto...

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Lambro River Oil Spill May Create 'Ecological Disaster' In Italy

AP | NICOLE WINFIELD | Posted 05.25.2011 | World
Read More: Ecological Disaster, Environmental, Ecological Issues, Monza, Oil Spill, Milan, Environment, Italy, Lambro River, World News

ROME — An oil spill that fouled a small river in northern Italy reached the Po River on Wednesday, with officials warning of an ecological disas...

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