Why Are We Destroying Our Planet?
By: David Swanson It’s not enough to point out that our political system is completely corrupted by money, including money from coal and oil and nukes and gas. Of course […]
Category Archives: Environment
Environmental Issues
Human Population: A Bomb Waiting To Explode?
By: Steve Salmony We are neither acknowledging all of the extant science of the human species nor ‘connecting the dots’ between the skyrocketing global growth of the human population and […]
A New Variety of Hansen’s Disease?
By: Alton C. Thompson Hansen’s disease (more commonly known as leprosy)—which has been a problem for humans for at least 4000 years—is a disease which, if untreated, “can be progressive, […]
The Day After The Day After…
By: Alton C. Thompson Writer John Atcheson recently stated the following: The gravest threat our species has ever faced is hurtling toward us like a slow motion nuclear holocaust, and […]
Trying To Understand “Scientific” Talk
By: Alton C. Thompson The findings of this report could inform “design values,” or precipitation amounts, used by water resource managers, insurance and building sectors in modeling the risk due […]
Global Warming: That “Sinking” Feeling
By: Alton C. Thompson Under a heading which he named “Sink or swim,” blogger Rick Chamberlin states: Like hope, the climate crisis is not as simple as it sometimes seems. […]
Can Our Society Cope With Future Events?
By: Alton C. Thompson Wilson Knut, in reviewing Chris Hedges’s Empire of Illusion: The End of Literacy and the Triumph of Spectacle (2009), notes that: Hedges argues that we have […]
PDF: Using Religion To Answer Global Warming
By: Alton C. Thompson In this exhaustive PDF article, Al Thompson attempts to answer a rather straight-forward, yet extremely complicated question: Were religion to “evolve” — or, more accurately, were […]
My Hope For a Forum
By: Alton C. Thompson A study published six years ago stated: Surveys show most Americans believe climate change poses serious risks but also that reductions in greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions […]
Attention Climate Change Deniers!
By: Alton C. Thompson If climate change deniers are not convinced by the following statement by Tim Radford, I don’t know what will: Climate is a complicated business, and there […]
