Severe drought is becoming commonplace around the world. Even the southern United States has been hard hit from Georgia and Florida to Arizona and California. Brasil’s Amazon rainforest isn’t being spared either. These photos, p…
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The Disaffected Lib: Kansas Throws In the Towel, Harvests Whatever Wheat It Can
The combines are early onto the wheat fields of Kansas this year. Accounts suggest they’re trying to salvage whatever they can from this year’s crop in regions hard hit by drought.
The worst droughts in decades are wilting wheat fields worldwide.
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350 or bust: Remember, We Shouldn’t Make Connections Between Climate Change And All The Extreme Weather Events We’ve Been Experiencing Lately
From an op-ed by Bill McKibben, author and founder of 350.org, narrated and illustrated by Stephen Thomson of Plomomedia.com: The transcript of the original article: “Caution: It is vitally important not to make connections. When you see pictures…
Continue readingWritings of J. Todd Ring: Built to crash: the coming economic tsunami
`Would you rather have a perfectly efficient system that, if hit by a pebble, would shatter? Or, would you rather have an adaptable system that may not give you the exact output you want, but can handle anything? According to Barry Lynn of the New Am…
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