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Indoor air pollution worse than the smog outside in China
Though already home to 16 of the planet’s 20 most heavily polluted cities, researchers have recently come up with worse news from smog-clogged China, after findings that the air inside the homes of the lower classes in the country can be up to 10 times worse than the prevailing gloom outside.
Reasons for this include the fact that 70% of homes still burn coal and wood for heat, while half of all Chinese men smoke, adding to a toxic combo of indoor pollution.
Shockingly, it is estimated that over the next quarter-century, 83 million Chinese — a number equaling nearly a third of the total U.S. population — will die of lung cancer and respiratory ailments unless cigarette smoking and indoor fuel-burning are reduced. Though already home to 16 of the planet’s 20 most heavily polluted cities, researchers have recently come up with worse news from smog... more -
Garbage Island
At twice the size of Texas, Garbage Island is a collection of plastic at the center of a great pacific current to the south east of Hawaii. VBS.tv documents scientists investigating the quantity of plastic in this region. The results are staggering. Shown here is part 1 of 12. See the rest at the link. At twice the size of Texas, Garbage Island is a collection of plastic at the center of a great pacific current to the south east of Ha... more
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World-renowned Scientist Denies Oil Crisis
Dr. Peter McCabe, a world-renowned scientist who has spent over 30 years in geologic research related to fossil fuels in academia, industry and government, has made a bold claim that in his opinion, “There is no impending peak oil crisis - and the same thing goes for natural gas and coal.”
Dr. McCabe thinks that the “peak oil crisis” is a poorly thought-out concept, and has determined many ways to access more fossil fuel resources: “squeezing oil out of unconventional sources such as oil shales, to using new technologies to re-exploit old oil fields that had since been left as dead.” Dr. Peter McCabe, a world-renowned scientist who has spent over 30 years in geologic research related to fossil fuels in academia, ind... more -
Hungry bears surround Russian villages
Dozens of brown bears searching for food have forced two villages in a mountainous region of southern Russia to impose a curfew, after the bears left the forests and began terrorising villagers and killing cattle. Now the inhabitants of Yailyu and Bele would no longer be able to leave their villages without an armed guard during the day and must stay in their homes at night. The bears have left the forest because of a lack of berries and nuts this year. Dozens of brown bears searching for food have forced two villages in a mountainous region of southern Russia to impose a curfew, after... more
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For peat’s sake: A point of no return as alarming as the tundra feedback
A new study in Nature Geoscience (subs. req’d, abstract below) projects that “a warming of 4°C causes a 40% loss of soil organic carbon from the shallow peat and 86% from the deep peat” of Northern peatlands. And that amplifying carbon cycle feedback is dangerous for three reasons:
1. The northern peatlands are believed to store some 320 (+/- 140) billion metric tons of carbon, roughly half of what the atmosphere contains.
2. Peatlands tend to emit much of their carbon in the form of methane, which is more than 20 times as powerful a greenhouse gas as carbon dioxide.
3. A warming of 4°C this century is all but inevitable if we don’t sharply reverse emissions trends quickly (see “Is 450 ppm politically possible? Part 0: The alternative is humanity’s self-destruction“).
This study provides yet more evidence that the carbon cycle has a point of no return beyond which it becomes all but impossible to stop catastrophic global warming — the point at which we start to lose the northern peatlands and the permafrost (see Tundra, Part 2: The point of no return).
Most of the world’s wetlands are peat, which are better known as bogs, moors, mires, and swamp forests. Wikipedia notes, “Under the right conditions, peat is the earliest stage in the formation of coal.” The Reuters article on the study explains why peatlands contain so much carbon:
Peat is the accumulation of partially decayed vegetation in very wet places and it covers about two percent of global land mass. Peatlands store large amounts of carbon owing to the low rates of carbon breakdown in cold, waterlogged soils.
The carbon cycle feedback begins as human-caused global warming dries out the peatlands:
“This will cause carbon loss from the soil which means an increase in carbon dioxide concentration in the atmosphere, which will further worsen global warming,” said Takeshi Ise from the Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology. “So we have to do something to mitigate global warming,” he told Reuters.
This, of course, is very similar to the carbon cycle feedbacks from the melting of the tundra or permafrost (see “Tundra 4: Permafrost loss linked to Arctic sea ice loss“).
Again, if we don’t keep total warming substantially below 4°C, then we risk triggering vast releases of methane and carbon dioxide from the permafrost and the northern peatlands at rates that are much faster than humanity can plausibly reduce our own emissions.
Here is the full abstract of “High sensitivity of peat decomposition to climate change through water-table feedback”:
Historically, northern peatlands have functioned as a carbon sink, sequestering large amounts of soil organic carbon, mainly due to low decomposition in cold, largely waterlogged soils. The water table, an essential determinant of soil-organic-carbon dynamics interacts with soil organic carbon. Because of the high water-holding capacity of peat and its low hydraulic conductivity, accumulation of soil organic carbon raises the water table, which lowers decomposition rates of soil organic carbon in a positive feedback loop. This two-way interaction between hydrology and biogeochemistry has been noted but is not reproduced in process-based simulations. Here we present simulations with a coupled physical–biogeochemical soil model with peat depths that are continuously updated from the dynamic balance of soil organic carbon. Our model reproduces dynamics of shallow and deep peatlands in northern Manitoba, Canada, on both short and longer timescales.
continued A new study in Nature Geoscience (subs. req’d, abstract below) projects that “a warming of 4°C causes a 40% loss of soil organic carbo... more -
Tribe vows to fight mine with axes and arrows
“One of India’s most isolated tribes, the Dongria Kondh, is preparing to stop British FTSE 100 company Vedanta from mining aluminium ore on their sacred mountain, after police and hired thugs forced protesters to dismantle a barricade over the weekend,” reports Survival International.
“About 150 people had blocked the road in Orissa state on Wednesday [October 8] after hearing that Vedanta intended to start survey work for a planned aluminium mine which would destroy an ecologically vital hill, and the Dongria Kondh’s most sacred site. Vedanta employees visited the blockade repeatedly, threatening the protestors. On Friday the villagers gave in and took down the barricade, but about 100 are still at the side of the road, blocking traffic when Vedanta vehicles approach,” Survival continues.
“Today, Dongria Kondh from all over Niyamgiri, the hill range that would be decimated by Vedanta’s mine, are making arrows and preparing their axes to stop Vedanta reaching their sacred mountain. One Dongria man said today ‘Now our people are very angry. We have to show the Dongria Kondh power to Vedanta.’
“When India’s Supreme Court gave Vedanta the green light in August to mine on Dongria land, around 40 Dongrias used tree trunks to block a road leading into their hills, and held banners reading, ‘We are Dongria Kondh. Vedanta can not take our mountain.’ [photos available]
“The mountain that Vedanta wants to mine is not only the Dongria Kondh’s most sacred site, it is also integral to the entire ecosystem of the hills, enabling the numerous streams and lush forests which sustain the Dongrias to continue to thrive.
“Survival’s director, Stephen Corry, said today ‘The Dongria Kondh are protecting their land from invaders, who are only interested in plundering the mountain for their own gain. The Dongrias will get nothing from the mine, except destitution and ruin, and Survival will continue to support their resistance to Vedanta.’”
Please take moment to sign this letter, imploring the Prime Minister of India to safeguard the Dongria Kondh’s rights. For more information please contact Miriam Ross at Survival International (+44) (0)20 7687 8734 or (+44) (0)7504 543 367 or email mr@survival-international.org “One of India’s most isolated tribes, the Dongria Kondh, is preparing to stop British FTSE 100 company Vedanta from mining aluminium o... more -
Silencing Indigenous People: Wizard of Oz author L. Frank Baum promotes Native Ame...
Philosopher Neil Evernden wrote that vivisectionists cut animal vocal cords so they did not have to hear the tortured animal cry as they conducted experiments.
Vivisectionists silenced the animal and therefore did not acknowledge it’s a tortured being.
Right of passage into the scientific way of being centers on the ability to apply the knife to the vocal cords - not just of the dog on the table - but to life itself. It’s about silencing voice then - and reflects the silencing of voices today.
“We are on the tip of an iceberg and the iceberg runs deep and the ship is running right into it. Industrial civilization is not sustainable. We all know that. It cannot be sustainable.”
“We could have solved these problems 50 years ago, but we are not going to solve these problems in the next 20 years. We can start, maybe. But I think we are in for a very, very difficult time. ”
“Dorothy is not in Kansas anymore. And Dorothy is not coming back to Kansas. This is not going to be easy. And like that Great Oz asked Dorothy and her friends - so are the politicians of our day - they ask us. Pay no attention the Great Oz says ‘to the man behind the curtain.’ Because the great deception is alive and well.”
Hubbard compares yellow brick road to gold & Emerald City to the green of money.
Oz is “this old white guy doing his thing, pulling hi levers, lying to the people to maintain is power. This is what we have been doing as a culture for how many years – ignoring the man behind the curtain. And now the chickens are going to come home to roost.”
A failed businessman/store owner, L. Frank Baum edited the Aberdeen Saturday Pioneer newspaper before writing the Wizard of Oz..
After 1890 Wounded Knee massacre, Baum targets Native Americans in editorial for Aberdeen Saturday Pioneer on death of Sioux Chief Sitting Bull.
Hubbard: That was act one. The great Wizard silencing nature.
Baum editorial
Sitting Bull, most renowned Sioux of modern history, is dead. He was not a Chief, but without Kingly lineage he arose from a lowly position to the greatest Medicine Man of his time, by virtue of his shrewdness and daring. He was an Indian with a white man's spirit of hatred and revenge for those who had wronged him and his. In his day he saw his son and his tribe gradually driven from their possessions forced to give up their old hunting grounds and espouse the hard working and uncongenial avocations of the whites. And these, his conquerors, were marked in their dealings with his people by selfishness, falsehood and treachery. What wonder that his wild nature, untamed by years of subjection, should still revolt? What wonder that a fiery rage still burned within his breast and that he should seek every opportunity of obtaining vengeance upon his natural enemies. The proud spirit of the original owners of these vast prairies inherited through centuries of fierce and bloody wars for their possession, lingered last in the bosom of Sitting Bull. With his fall the nobility of the Redskin is extinguished, and what few are left are a pack of whining curs who lick the hand that smites them. The Whites, by law of conquest, by justice of civilization, are masters of the American continent, and the best safety of the frontier settlements will be secured by the total annihilation of the few remaining Indians. Why not annihilation? Their glory has fled, their spirit broken, their manhood effaced; better that they die than live the miserable wretches that they are.
Author Neil Evernden
http://www.derrickjensen.org/essay.html
http://haydon4.tripod.com/id20.htm
http://www.derrickjensen.org/books01.html
Vivisection
http://www.infonature.org/english/world_news/eng-nature...
http://www.tonglen.oceandrop.org/Letter_Ban_Vivisection...
Baum on Sitting Bull
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/L._Frank_Baum
http://www.put.com/oz/ozdi/199712.TXT
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Wonderful_Wizard_of_Oz
Baum fans apology
http://www.dickshovel.com/roeschbaum.html Philosopher Neil Evernden wrote that vivisectionists cut animal vocal cords so they did not have to hear the tortured animal cry as th... more -
Wildfire burns 2,000 acres near Los Angeles
Hundreds are evacuated from two canyons as fire threatens homes
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ABC relies on the inanity defense to reject Gore’s-truth telling ad
Here’s an update on my recent heavily-Dugg post: “The truth-telling ad ABC won’t let you see — and what you can do about it.”
First, as of today, more than 200,000 people have sent ABC an email. So thank you to everybody who sent them an e-mail or Dugg this post and drew attention to it — and to the many other bloggers who wrote about this.
Second, ABC’s absurd actions have come to the attention of one of the media’s most prestigious watchdogs. What their headline “ABC Declines Renewable Power Ad” lacks in actual head-smackiness, their coverage makes up in credibility. ABC can easily ignore bloggers, but not CJR. ABC was also critiqued by the UK Guardian, with a better headline, “ABC deems Gore climate change advert too ‘controversial’ for TV.”
Third, ABC has offered an explanation for their hypocrisy action or, more precisely, two explanations. The Alliance for Climate Protection says that ABC objected to this fleeting image:
Big Oil Spends Hundreds of Millions to Block Clean Energy
Why? ABC said:
Per our Guidelines, national buildings may be used in advertising provided the depictions are incidental to the advertiser’s promotion of the product or service. Given the messages and themes of this commercial, the image of the Capital (sic) building is not incidental to this advertising. Please replace the image with one that is not of another national building or monument. Thank you.
The Wonkroom notes how ridiculous that claim is, given that ABC runs Chevron’s greenwashing ‘Human Energy‘ ads:
While running ads calling for conservation and depicting happy children and unspoiled nature, Chevron was simultaneously expanding its operations in the tar sands of Alberta, Canada and oil fields of the Niger Delta, and lobbying to lift the offshore drilling moratorium.
Maybe ABC realized the inanity of their original argument because “network spokeswoman Julie Hoover told the Guardian“:
All of our advertising is reviewed on a case-by-case basis, and the context of this particular ad was determined not to be acceptable per our policy on controversial issue advertising.
I suppose the “we’re arbitrary” defense is much better than the “we’re legally inane” defense. Here’s an update on my recent heavily-Dugg post: “The truth-telling ad ABC won’t let you see — and what you can do about it.” ... more -
NYT issues strong editorial on oil, climate, and the election
he New York Times published a blunt lead editorial today, “Up and Down the Learning Curve,” with the blurb:
America’s energy problems are complex, and solving them will require leaders with restless curiosity and an open mind.
The piece notes that despite the “cramped rules of the presidential debates and the McCain campaign’s descent into content-free name-calling.”:
Still, we have heard enough to know that there are big differences between John McCain and Barack Obama.
The NYT notes that Obama “keeps moving up the learning curve on energy issues,” and “His present strategy is coherent and farsighted.” The NYT also details McCain’s strategy. Rather than rehashing that here, let me quote one telling anecdote from the vice presidential debate that I didn’t write about at the time but that the NYT hones in on:
Ms. Palin’s strategy is frighteningly simplistic: drill for more oil. Any doubt on that score was erased in the vice presidential debate, when she delightedly corrected Senator Joseph Biden about the party’s new slogan. He had complained that the Republicans stood for “drill, drill, drill.” No, she said, it’s “drill, baby, drill.”
She seemed downright gleeful repeating this shameful GOP chant. The NYT notes that “if Ms. Palin is to be believed, [McCain] has more or less anointed her as his energy czar.”
Kudos to the NYT for this powerful editorial. he New York Times published a blunt lead editorial today, “Up and Down the Learning Curve,” with the blurb: ... more -
Turning carbon dioxide into fuel
You might have thought that recycling is limited to paper, plastics and glass. Well, think again. A Californian company is developing a new technique for recycling carbon dioxide, or CO2, and turning it back into fuel.
Carbon Sciences are developing a "breakthrough technology" to make fuel out of waste CO2.
Carbon Sciences believe they have made a breakthrough with their technology, which they say can transform CO2 back into basic fuel building blocks efficiently.
Their biocatalytic process converts CO2 into basic hydrocarbons - C1 (methane) C2 (ethane) and C3 (propane) -- which can then be utilized to make higher-grade fuels like gasoline and jet fuel. You might have thought that recycling is limited to paper, plastics and glass. Well, think again. A Californian company is developing ... more -
LSD cured my headache
Cluster headaches cause such severe pain that some sufferers are driven to suicide. Now one man believes he's found a surprising cure. Cluster headaches cause such severe pain that some sufferers are driven to suicide. Now one man believes he's found a surprising ... more
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McCain's Erratic Health Strategy: Now He's Slashing Medicare
When a candidate suddenly, almost whimsically changes the way he proposes to handle $1.3 trillion, it's time to get nervous.
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We Are One President Away From a Future of Fossil Fuel Addiction
America's energy and climate future will be determined by what the nation decides to do with its deposits of oil shale.
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The New Corporate Threat to Our Water Supplies
Neglect of public infrastructure has private companies swooping in to buy public systems, like water, with grave consequences.
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Oil sands will pollute Great Lakes, report warns
The environmental impacts of Alberta's oil sands will not be restricted to Western Canada, researchers say, but will extend thousands of kilometres away to the Great Lakes, threatening water and air quality around the world's largest body of fresh water.
In a new report, the University of Toronto's Munk Centre says the massive refinery expansions needed to process tar sands crude, and the new pipeline networks for transporting the fuel, amount to a "pollution delivery system" connecting Alberta to the Great Lakes region of Canada and the U.S.
It warns that the refineries will be using the Great Lakes "as a cheap supply" source for their copious water needs and the area's air "as a pollution dump."
The report, which is being released today at a conference at the university, says that as many as 17 major refinery expansions around the lakes are being considered for turning the tar-like Alberta bitumen into gasoline and other petroleum products. While not all will be undertaken, enough of them will be to have a regional environmental impact.
Proposed pipeline and refinery projects around the lakes are expected to lead to total investments of more than $31-billion (U.S.) by 2015, spending similar in scale to expenditures at many oil sands projects. For this reason, the report says the various projects, when taken together, threaten to "wipe out many of the pollution control gains" achieved around the lakes since the 1970s.
The massive expenditures are needed because typical refineries can't process heavy crude derived from tar sands without costly upgrades.
"This expansion promises to bring with it an exponential increase in pollution, discharges into waterways including the Great Lakes, destruction of wetlands, toxic air emissions, acid rain, and huge increases in greenhouse gas emissions," it says.
Most of the projected spending is on the U.S. side of the lakes. Only one major refinery project has been announced for the Canadian side, but that expansion, at a Shell refinery in Sarnia, was put on hold in July because of surging costs.
However, two big Canadian companies, TransCanada Pipelines Ltd. with its Keystone project, and Enbridge Inc., with its Alberta Clipper project, are vying to build pipelines to bring crude from the tar sands to U.S. refineries around the lakes.
The report says the environmental effects in Alberta from tar sands development - from dying ducks caught in tailings ponds to massive carbon dioxide emissions - are well known, but the implications for the Great Lakes "are less well-understood and less extensively explored."
Policy makers around the lakes, in both Canada and the U.S., are largely unaware that the tar sands will lead to massive industrial development in their region, and consequently have no strategy to minimize the environmental impacts, it says.
Some of the harshest criticism is for the Ontario government, which it characterizes as "remarkably unengaged" over how tar sands oil will affect the province and "doesn't seem to even be asking the key questions, let alone contemplating the possible policy answers."
There has been one major dispute in the U.S. over a tar sands-related refinery expansion, at a British Petroleum facility at Whiting, Ind. The company proposed a $3-billion refinery modernization that would raise discharges of two pollutants by about 35 per cent and 54 per cent respectively. But it backed down and pledged not to increase the pollutants after a public outcry. The environmental impacts of Alberta's oil sands will not be restricted to Western Canada, researchers say, but will extend thous... more -
Ninja Of the Sea "They're Watching"
Box jellyfish actively hunt their prey. They are known to be the only jellyfish with an active visual system, consisting of 24 eyes located on the center of each side of its bell.
The eyes occur in clusters on the four sides of the cube-like body. Sixteen are simply pits of light-sensitive pigment, but one pair in each cluster is surprisingly complex, with a sophisticated lens, retina, iris and cornea, all in an eye only 0.1 millimeters across.
the lenses on these eyes have been analyzed and could form distortion free images.
Pollution fuels the advancement of creatures who thrive from it..Many of which cannot coexist comfortably around humans or other wildlife. leading to a drop in fish activity resulting in dead zones beneath the waves. As of which provide extreme refuge to these ninja like predators of the seas
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I've never swim in the blue ocean water of the topical regions these and many other species of underwater origin exist, but had always hoped to. I wonder if it'll ever be possible now Box jellyfish actively hunt their prey. They are known to be the only jellyfish with an active visual system, consisting of 24 eyes lo... more -
Living the Life! (Who,What,When,Where,and WHY!)
"To many new home buyers, the idea of single family homes is much more exciting, than the condominium or townhouse living. In the U.S., the most common in real estate is the single family homes: be it a small house, bungalow or a large mansion. What attracts new home buyers to single family homes is that no matter how much square footage there is, it is all yours with your own piece of land and privacy.Your home may be a small one, but it is your kingdom, and no one can interfere with the way you want to live your life. There is a freedom to decorate and paint it to reflect your sense of style, and to chill in the backyard cooking barbecue with friends and family."
This sounds amazing but, who is able to obtain these so called small homes . With what do they apprehend the necessary resources and where do they come from.The real clincher is WHY! are there obscene amounts of deforestation and animal relocation. When everyday on my way home from work to my wife and son i drive past houses that would make me proud to provide my family with. Yet NO ONE is even living there and I'm forced to rent a piece with money i could be using even though is not much towards a home, not a camp site, and all the trees that died to be turned into frames and walls miss their lives moving with the breeze.
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What if some crazy looking creature came and sawed you up. Removing your skin, exposing your bones, using them to burn and build homes. "To many new home buyers, the idea of single family homes is much more exciting, than the condominium or townhouse living. In the... more -
Environmentalists slam Bush "fox-in-henhouse" plan
A Bush administration plan to let U.S. agencies decide for themselves whether their actions put wildlife at risk is drawing fire from environmental groups, which say this is like letting a fox guard a hen house.
The Interior Department, one of two federal agencies pushing for this policy change, rejects the environmentalists' critique, saying the new rule would cut bureaucratic red tape and free government scientists for more important work.
But a coalition of conservation groups sees the move as an attempt to gut the Endangered Species Act.
"This is exactly the fox guarding the hen house," Michael Daulton of the National Audubon Society said. "It's a scary proposition to think about agencies with no wildlife expertise at all making decisions about the fate of species, potentially leading to extinction."
The 35-year-old Endangered Species Act is meant to protect threatened wildlife by relying on the best available science, the environmentalists noted. Government scientists must now consult with agencies on projects that could put species at risk.
The rules change could take scientists out of the equation, the conservation coalition maintained.
Audubon, which aims to protect birds, was among more than 120 groups that joined to flood the Interior Department's Fish and Wildlife Service with 100,000 negative comments about the plan on Friday.
This flood of paper was timed to coincide with the end of an official "public comment" period on the proposed rule change, which ends on Tuesday. After that, it is unclear when or whether the rule will be adopted.
'HAIL MARY PASS'
"This proposed rule change is obviously a Hail Mary pass to industry friends in the final days of the Bush administration and it will fail," said Janette Brimmer, a lawyer with Earthjustice.
A Hail Mary pass is a desperate last-minute play in American football.
At the heart of the matter is the notion of dropping a requirement for U.S. agencies -- from the Transportation Department to the Army Corps of Engineers -- to consult with scientists before they take on projects that could threaten wildlife on the Endangered Species list.
As the Interior and Commerce departments wrote in their plan, released in mid-August with little fanfare: "We propose to add language that action agencies are not required to consult on those actions for which they determine their action will have 'no effect' on listed species or critical habitat."
These two agencies set a 30-day public comment period, which was extended for an additional 30 days. Conservation groups urged a 120-day period for comment from the public and Congress, and said comments should be allowed by fax and e-mail in addition to paper letters, the only form now accepted.
"The abbreviated timeline and restrictive commenting options raise serious concerns that the Department of the Interior is attempting to rewrite a bedrock environmental statute without allowing for anything approaching adequate public involvement," the environmental groups said in a letter to the Interior Department's Fish and Wildlife Service.
Chris Paolino, an Interior Department spokesman, said scientific consultation occurs in the planning phase of federal projects, and that these scientists do not simply "rubber stamp" government efforts.
The aim of the proposed rule change, Paolino said by telephone, "is to streamline the process a little bit, remove red tape where we can and remove the backlog of consultations that had developed over the last 30 years and allow for those projects where there's an accepted 'no negative impact' to an endangered species to move forward."
The Bush administration has been widely criticized for its record on endangered species. Since President George W. Bush took office in 2001, 58 species have been added to the list, compared with 522 during the eight years of the Clinton administration and 231 in the four-year presidency of George H.W. Bush, the current president's father. A Bush administration plan to let U.S. agencies decide for themselves whether their actions put wildlife at risk is drawing fire from ... more -
John McCain: The Nuclear Option
Building 45 new nuclear plants in this country is insanity and will doom the waterways of this country and put our national security at risk. For a candidate who also talks about fighting the 'war on terror' as well, how could this thought even be entertained in the world we live in? Nuclear energy is not safe, it is not CO2 free, and I am truly getting tired of John McCain talking about what he really knows nothing about. He was on a nuclear submarine that didn't get blown up so that is how he assessed nuclear power is safe? Does he even understand the process of how the uranium is extracted and the toxic pollution it causes to our waterways and land? Does he understand how the toxic waste causes cancer? Does he understand the radioactivity of the waste? The immense amount of water nuclear uses? (Not good in a country now experiencing droughts, especially in the US Southwest) The cost in dollars and in potential lives?
My one message to him and yes, Obama as well who has now flip flopped to say he too engages nuclear is: STOP LYING TO THE AMERICAN PEOPLE. The strides being made in solar, wind, and geothermal are here and now. We could take the money their congressional subsidies give out for their nuclear pipedreams and repower this country! I will make a pledge that should John McCain be corronated I will call the White House every day regarding this issue and 'clean coal.' And I will do the same if it is Obama.
It is unconscienable to me that they could ever want to foist this antiquated unsafe energy source on us just to appease backers and the lobbyists who get the subisidies from Washington Dc. The nuclear option must be out of the question. It is antiquated. It is unsafe. It is toxic. It wastes water. It is expensive. It puts our national security at risk, and will take too much time in light of the reports coming from peer reviewed scientists regarding the current state of our world. Why don't these candidates ever pick up a report instead of a poll to craft their policies? Building 45 new nuclear plants in this country is insanity and will doom the waterways of this country and put our national security a... more
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