Happy New Year!
Saddam Is Dead
So they killed Saddam, big deal. Hundreds of people a week are getting killed in Iraq. Death is not solving anything over there, perhaps we should be more worried about keeping people alive. Saddam was a bad man, and got what all bad men get, however killing him has solved and will solve nothing.
In other news, 60 other innocent people were killed in car bomb attacks in Baghdad yesterday…
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A year-end Perspective From Worldwatch President Chris Flavin
If the world succeeds in avoiding ecological collapse, historians may one day look back on 2006 as the “tipping-point” moment.
Around the globe, the past year has produced a remarkable series of indicators that human societies are waking up to the precarious state of our world. If current trends are not reversed-and soon-we will hand the next generation not only a natural resource base on the verge of collapse, but a global economy on the edge of failure.
Even though 2006 was marked by its share of acute crises, led by the conflicts in Iraq and Darfur, the less acute but more profound crisis of global climate disruption reached the top rungs of public attention for the first time. Scientists warn we may soon cross a threshold of no
return as dying forests and warming tundra release additional carbon dioxide into the atmosphere, enabling climate change to feed on itself. In fact, some believe it could already be too late.
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Renewable Energy Roundup
This week we talk about Chicago’s green sidewalks initiative. They are using solar panels on bus stops and an innovative new sidewalk material. Also this week, some news that global warming, specifically the warming of the Atlantic ocean may have an effect on forest fires in the western part of the U.S.
Lets round up that news!
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Could The Plight Of Polar Bears Be The Tipping Point In The Global Warming Debate
The Bush Administration finally admitted yesterday that global warming is threatening the polar bear with extinction, the first time it has ever shown even an ounce of intelligence on the subject.
In a move that will have profound consequences not only for the polar bear but potentially for America’s polluting industries, the Administration declared last night that the polar bear should be added to its endangered species list because of the drastic melting of its habitat.
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