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Entries Tagged as 'Animals & Environment'

The Forgotten Specter: Death by Nuclear Radiation

July 24th, 2007 · No Comments

What the use of Nuclear Weapons really means
BY FRANCESCA CAIGATTI
Picture taken of the atomic bombing of Nagasaki on August 9, 1945.

It is beyond my comprehension how our president or any world leader can loosely and irresponsibly talk about nuking ANYONE on this planet, as has become so popular these days. The first time I […]

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Tags: Animals & Environment · Imperial Policy · Pathetic Idioten · State Crimes · The Logical Misanthropist

The steer who escaped into our conscience

July 22nd, 2007 · No Comments

BY RALPH R. ACAMPORA
July 22, 2007
The story many Long Islanders have followed during the past few weeks of an escaped steer on the North Fork whose notoriety landed him a refuge away from the abattoir gets more perplexing the more you think about it. From a strictly agribusiness point of view, of course, the fugitive […]

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Tags: Animals & Environment · Obstinate Conscience · The Logical Misanthropist · Toxic Culture

Stop Buying Stuff—a reminder

July 1st, 2007 · No Comments

BY MS. X

All the products we consume take a toll on nature—directly or indirectly.
Over the years I have become more and more discouraged and angry at this nation’s refusal to acknowledge, at a national level and in a consistent way, the harm we do our planet and its life forms. Our Environmental Protection Agency […]

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Tags: Animals & Environment · CJO'S OpEds · Pathetic Idioten · Toxic Culture

Modern Man: homo destructus vs. homo pacificus

June 22nd, 2007 · 4 Comments

PHOTO CAPTION: The bitumen-impregnated sands of Alberta, Canada are said to rival the oil reserves of Saudi Arabia, but extracting and refining it from these sandy clumps requires a great deal more energy than the light to medium crude of the Middle East. Sunco currently produces 1 million barrels of synthetic petroleum a day from […]

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Tags: Animals & Environment · CJO'S OpEds · Toxic Culture

Request for Climate References

June 19th, 2007 · No Comments

INNOCENT ANIMALS ALL OVER THE WORLD ARE BEING CONDEMNED TO RAPID EXTINCTION ON ACCOUNT OF MANMADE GLOBAL WARMING.
BY GEORGE MONBIOT Dateline: May 12, 2007
[Note: This is a reply to Cockburn’s second article on climate politics and climate change, which, while it did not directly respond to Monbiot’s or Mann’s first reply to Cockburn’s original article, […]

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Tags: Animals & Environment · Controversy · The Left & Pseudo Left · Toxic Culture

Response to Cockburn (on his claims on global warming)

June 19th, 2007 · 2 Comments

CLIMATE DENIER (!) ALEX COCKBURN. HIS MOTIVES FOR THIS UNCHARACTERISTIC STANCE, which makes him an objective ally of criminals outfits like ExxonMobil, ARE HARD TO FOLLOW.
BY GEORGE MONBIOT | SOURCE: ZNet Magazine | Science
Dateline: May 03, 2007

[Note: Click here for Alexander Cockburn’s precipitating article “From Papal Indulgences to Carbon Credits Is Global Warming a Sin?” […]

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Tags: Animals & Environment · Controversy · The Left & Pseudo Left · Toxic Culture

Global Warming Suspicions and Confusions

June 19th, 2007 · 1 Comment

BY JUSTIN PODUR | Originally at Znet Magazine |
Dateline: May 11, 2007

In recent years, a number of important contributions have influenced the growing debate on global warming. Paul Baer and Tom Athanasiou’s book, Dead Heat, from a few years ago, was excellent. Noam Chomsky’s latest book, Failed States, mentions global warming as one of the […]

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Tags: Animals & Environment · Controversy