Citizens Lobby with Life on the Brink
Alex Smith | 10.03.2013 18:40 | Climate Chaos | Ecology | Sheffield
Cant' be done? As emissions hit new record, Citizens Climate Lobby Exec. Dir. Mark Reynolds teaches people to lobby the government for sane policy, like Hansen's "Tax and Dividend". Could be done in UK, or anywhere. Philip Cafaro on new book "Life on the Brink: Environmentalists Confront Overpopulation."
Download/listen to this Radio Ecoshock show in CD Quality (56 MB) here;
http://www.ecoshock.net/eshock13/ES_130313_Show.mp3
Download/listen to the show in faster version (14 MB) here:
http://www.ecoshock.net/eshock13/ES_130313_Show_LoFi.mp3
Kiss your old climate good-bye. That's the word from scientists and measuring agencies on all fronts.
John Vidal of the Guardian was among the first to report that measurements of CO2 in the atmosphere at Hawaii's Mauna Loa observatory hit an all-time new high in February 2013 at 396.8 parts per million.
We are pumping out greenhouse gases as ever faster rates. The increase in 2012 was 2.67 parts per million. That is the second highest on record.
As hope for a "safe" climate "fade away", Mark Reynolds of the Citizens Climate Lobby shows how we can overcome the fossil fuel lobby machine. I didn't believe that either, until Mark explained what they do. This could work just as well in the UK, or any pseudo-Democratic country.
Then a fine new book of essays by environmentalists, some well-known, others new, on the untouchable issue: population. The IPCC knows over-population is one of TWO main drivers of climate change. Why do they only talk about fossil fuels? Why does almost every green group duck talking population (and immigration reform)?
Phil Cafaro, co-editor of the new book "Life on the Brink: Environmentalists Confront Overpopulation" pulls no punches. It's now or never to stop humans from over-running the last of the planet, last stop before die-off.
We could do something about it. It's not quite time to give up. Anyway, giving up is not an option.
Ends with "The CSG Song" (coal seam gas, a.k.a. "fracking") by the Australian band Pagan Love Cult.
P.S. I notice "population" or "over-population" is not even a "Topic" category on this site. Shows you how deep this gets buried...
http://www.ecoshock.net/eshock13/ES_130313_Show.mp3 Download/listen to the show in faster version (14 MB) here:
http://www.ecoshock.net/eshock13/ES_130313_Show_LoFi.mp3 Kiss your old climate good-bye. That's the word from scientists and measuring agencies on all fronts.
John Vidal of the Guardian was among the first to report that measurements of CO2 in the atmosphere at Hawaii's Mauna Loa observatory hit an all-time new high in February 2013 at 396.8 parts per million.
We are pumping out greenhouse gases as ever faster rates. The increase in 2012 was 2.67 parts per million. That is the second highest on record.
As hope for a "safe" climate "fade away", Mark Reynolds of the Citizens Climate Lobby shows how we can overcome the fossil fuel lobby machine. I didn't believe that either, until Mark explained what they do. This could work just as well in the UK, or any pseudo-Democratic country.
Then a fine new book of essays by environmentalists, some well-known, others new, on the untouchable issue: population. The IPCC knows over-population is one of TWO main drivers of climate change. Why do they only talk about fossil fuels? Why does almost every green group duck talking population (and immigration reform)?
Phil Cafaro, co-editor of the new book "Life on the Brink: Environmentalists Confront Overpopulation" pulls no punches. It's now or never to stop humans from over-running the last of the planet, last stop before die-off.
We could do something about it. It's not quite time to give up. Anyway, giving up is not an option.
Ends with "The CSG Song" (coal seam gas, a.k.a. "fracking") by the Australian band Pagan Love Cult.
P.S. I notice "population" or "over-population" is not even a "Topic" category on this site. Shows you how deep this gets buried...
Alex Smith
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http://www.ecoshock.org
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