Posts Tagged ‘America’
Summary: food, the symbiosis between food and the environment, particularly regarding climate change and pollution, how to reduce the burden your diet has on the environment, our fat friend.
“Nothing will benefit human health and increase the chances for survival of life on Earth as much as the evolution to a vegetarian diet.”
- Albert Einstein
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Changing your diet
Reducing Meat Consumption
Summary: WikiLeaks, who are the protagonists? What are the leaks about? How are the US government and it’s friends fighting back? Who are WikiLeaks’ allies? What are Anonymous Cyber Attacks and what is the Cyber Info War? Who are these Cyber Warriors, “Anonymous”? Where can I find them and how do I get involved?
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“Philosophers have interpreted the world in various ways, the point however is to change it.”
– Karl Marx
News
Leaks
- US helicopter slaughtering Reuters journalists and Iraqi children
- Obama administration handed over Iraqi detainees despite reports of torture
- WikiLeaks exposed hidden logs of the Afghanistan war
- U.S. forces killed hundreds of innocent civilians at checkpoints in Iraq
- The truth behind Iceland’s 2009 financial crisis
Summary: In this episode we will be talking about the Kyoto Protocol. What is the Kyoto Protocol all about? Where did it come from? What does it say? Who has signed up to it and why? Who has not signed up to it and why not? What has happened since?
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“I think that the European Union saved the Kyoto Protocol here, it could have died completely, any prospect of any legally binding outcome could have died, it has survived, whatever it means we will see later[.]”
– Connie Hedegaard, European Commissioner for Climate Action, COP16 Cancun 2010
Summary: Children living on rubbish tips, drug barons, gang warfare, disappearances, marked and unmarked graves, a concentration camp, an oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, another oil spill in the Amazon, extreme poverty, a communist enclave, a socialist paradise and the worlds largest rainforest at risk of going up in flames.
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“If you switch from taxing work and taxing savings to taxing pollution overall wellbeing would actually be enhanced, we would do less of the bad things and more of the good things and societies would be better off.”
– Nobel Prize Winning Economist, Joseph Stiglitz
News
Links for items in the news from todays podcast.
Forest Fires
- BBC News on Russian forrest fires
- Toronto Sun on deaths in Russia from heatwave
- Telegraph on forest fires in Portugal
- UKPA on Greek fires
- BBC News on Spanish fires
- BBC News on Bolivian fires
- LA Times on state of emergency in Kern County
- CBC on fires in British Columbia
“Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed.”
– Eisenhower
Drought
- AFP on drought and floods in Niger
- AFP on drought in Russia
- Grist on soaring food prices in Russia
- Hindustan Times on drought in West Bengal
- physorg.com on drought in south west Australia
- physorg.com on droughts increasing globally and the effect on plant productivity
Floods
- AP on Pakistan floods
- NY Times on Pakistan floods
- BBC in pictures on the China floods
- BBC in pictures on the China floods
- BBC news on floods in Europe
Rising Temperatures and Climate Change
- Guardian on 2010 breaking temperature records
- Guardian on ice island breaking away from Greenland
- Op-ed from Al Jazeera linking these events with climate change
- Another op-ed linking these events with climate change
