Found 4 days, 8 hours, 36 minutes, and 32 seconds ago on
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SYDNEY-From the rice paddies of Asia to the wheat fields of Australia, the soaring price of food is breaking the budgets of the poor and raising the specters of hunger and unrest. Across Asia, workers made a campaign against high food prices their May Day battle cry last week in marches through cities ...
Bill McKibben, The Defining Moment for Climate Change
tomdispatch.comFound 4 days, 9 hours, 59 minutes, and 3 seconds agoNow, it's true that the industrial revolution, which led to the release of greenhouse gases into the atmosphere at historically unprecedented rates, was also, in a sense, "without historical precedent"; but most natural events -- unlike, say, the present staggering ice melt in the Arctic -- have been precedented (if I can manufacture such a word).
smirkingchimp.com
- from TomDispatch
Already climate change -- in the form of a changing pattern of global rainfall -- seems to be affecting the planet in significant ways. Take the massive, almost decade-long drought in Australia's wheat-growing heartland, which has been a significant factor in sending flour prices , and so bread prices, soaring globally, leading to desperation and food riots across the planet.
Found 2 days, 23 hours, 51 minutes, and 57 seconds ago
smirkingchimp.com
- from TomDispatch
Already climate change -- in the form of a changing pattern of global rainfall -- seems to be affecting the planet in significant ways. Take the massive, almost decade-long drought in Australia's wheat-growing heartland, which has been a significant factor in sending flour prices , and so bread prices, soaring globally, leading to desperation and food riots across the planet.
Found 4 days, 6 hours, 11 minutes, and 53 seconds ago
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Almost seven and a half years later, as Michael Klare so vividly
indicates below, an observer might be pardoned for wondering whether
there hadn't been two super losers in the Cold War. Had the Soviet
Union, the weaker of the two great powers of the second half of the
last century, simply imploded first, while the U.S., enwreathed in a
cloud of self-congratulation, was almost unbeknownst to itself also
slowly making its way toward an exit? And, as a final irony, Klare --
author of the not-to-be-missed new book Rising Powers, Shrinking Planet -- points out, energy has refloated Russia, even as it's sinking us.
Found 4 days, 4 hours, 12 minutes, and 54 seconds ago
blognetnews.com
Already climate change -- in the form of a changing pattern of global rainfall -- seems to be affecting the planet in significant ways. Take the massive, almost decade-long drought in Australia's wheat-growing heartland, which has been a significant factor in sending flour prices , and so bread prices, soaring [...]
Found 4 days, 8 hours, 35 minutes, and 56 seconds ago
tomdispatch.org
humanity. It's common enough to talk about some historical figure or failed experiment being swept into the "dustbin of history," but what if all history and that dustbin, too, go
well, where? What are we, really, without our records? Once we pass beyond them, beyond all the experience we've collected, written down, and archived since those first scratches went on clay tablets in the lands of the Tigris and Euphrates -- now being stripped of their cultural patrimony -- at least two unanswerable questions arise.
Found 4 days, 8 hours, 35 minutes, and 46 seconds ago
thenation.com
Already climate change--in the form of a changing pattern of global rainfall--seems to be affecting the planet in significant ways. Take the massive, almost decade-long drought in Australia's wheat-growing heartland, which has been a significant factor in sending flour prices , and so bread prices, soaring globally, leading to desperation and food riots across the planet.
A report from the Bureau of Meteorology in Australia makes clear that, despite recent heavy rains in the eastern Australian breadbasket, years of above normal rainfall would be needed "to remove the very long-term [water] deficits" in the region.
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pdamerica.org
Already climate change--in the form of a changing pattern of global rainfall--seems to be affecting the planet in significant ways. Take the massive, almost decade-long drought in Australia's wheat-growing heartland, which has been a significant factor in sending flour prices , and so bread prices, soaring globally, leading to desperation and food riots across the planet.
Found 3 days, 10 hours, 46 minutes, and 58 seconds ago
independentsunbound.blogspot.com
When you really think about it, history is humanity. It's common enough to talk about some historical figure or failed experiment being swept into the "dustbin of history," but what if all history and that dustbin, too, go… well, where? What are we, really, without our records? Once we pass beyond them, beyond all the experience we've collected, written down, and archived since those first scratches went on clay tablets in the lands of the Tigris and Euphrates--now being stripped of their cultural patrimony--at least two unanswerable questions arise.
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