What extinction crisis? Believe it or not, there are still climate science deniers out there. And they're as ready as ever to draw you into arguments. Don't take the bait. Photo: "Click-64"/Flickr. We originally published this piece in September of 2010, but because we still get comments from climate science deniers, as a service to our readers, we've just updated it and … [Read more...]
The dark side of the “Green Economy”
Everywhere you look these days, things are turning green. In Chiapas, Mexico, indigenous farmers are being paid to protect the last vast stretch of rainforest in Mesoamerica. In the Brazilian Amazon, peasant families are given a monthly “green basket” of basic food staples to allow them to get by without cutting down trees. In Kenya, small farmers who plant climate-hardy trees … [Read more...]
A climate wake-up call
Imagine this scenario. Your medical doctor informs you: “You need to stop all industrial activities immediately, or you’ll be dead in twenty years. And so will your five-year-old child. Eventually, of course, you will die anyway — after all, nobody gets out alive — but your death is guaranteed if you do not stop relying on fossil fuels for travel, heating and cooling, water … [Read more...]