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Vote Romney-Ryan to hasten collapse

By Erik Curren | November 2, 2012

Romneymobile in the final stretch

This election year, the total collapse of industrial civilization has gained a popularity not seen since the heyday of The Planet of the Apes franchise. All over the blogosphere, people who worry about climate change, peak oil, financial meltdown, debt slavery, species extinction, overpopulation and rampant commercialism along with the spread of military drones, … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Politics Tagged With: Barack Obama, climate change, collapse, Mitt Romney, peak oil, plutocracy, presidential election, Romney, Ryan

The stealth president: When climate change is the issue

By Vicki Lipski | October 16, 2012

Obama

By January of next year, Barack Obama will have been president for four years. We'll know by then whether or not he’ll be president for an additional four years. Election years are frequently a time of taking stock – talking about where we’ve been, how far we’ve come, how far we have yet to go. When a subject becomes taboo, as climate change very nearly has, the matter of … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Climate Tagged With: climate change, climate skeptics, conservation, election2012, global climate disruption, presidential election

I’m better off, but…

By Lindsay Curren | September 11, 2012

Are-you-better-off

The US presidential election has taken a predictable turn with the rhetoric du jour that asks, “Are you better off now than you were four years ago?” The implication being that, in the Great Recession, you can’t possibly be better off than you were in the good ol' days of Dubya Bush & Company. With that inevitable conclusion the suggestion is that what’s needed is regime … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Economy Tagged With: 2012 election, politics, presidential election

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