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any man’s death diminishes me, because I am involved in mankind, and therefore never send to know for whom the bells tolls; it tolls for thee.
Category: Climate chaos
The atmosphere is to the earth as a layer of varnish is to a desktop globe. It is thin, fragile and essential for preserving the items on the surface.150 years of burning fossil fuel have overloaded the atmosphere to the point where the earth is ill. It now has a fever. Read the detailed article, Soothing Gaia’s Fever for an evocative account of that analogy. The items listed here detail progress on coordinating 6.5 billion people in the most critical project undertaken by humanity.Â
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I won’t be around to shoulder the blame when it becomes untenable D TrumpNearly 15,000 immigrant children are being held in a network of detention centres across the US.
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The accumulation of heating the earth leads to this ………….. Between 2014 and 2016, emissions remained largely flat, leading to hopes that the world was beginning to turn a corner.
Ian Dunlop: Our political leaders fail in face of Climate Emergency
The insults hurled by David Leyonhjelm at Sarah Hanson-Young recently put parliamentary discourse in the gutter. Leyonhjelm was roundly condemned, but not by our leaders. A limp slap across the knuckles from Turnbull and Shorten, then on to more pressing matters, hoping it will all go away. First published in Renew Economy – 8 August, Continue Reading →
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My question: why bother to reduce fossil fuels if we do nothing to the major forcing: population?
The John James Newsletter 259 17 November 2018
We just ended the hottest summer on record. We have fuels that are in critical drought state. This is the sixth year of seven years of drought.