Technology with a human face is a beautiful notion and it seems to be a matter of ordinary prudence to keep this currently marginal idea going.
(Wes Jackson, founder of The Land Institute)
When I was working in developmental assistance in South America and the Caribbean many years ago, a man by the name of E.F. Schumacher, a British economist, was the hero to many of us involved in the field of international development.
Dr. Stephen Schneider, climatologist, explains climate impacts and how the various assessments are determined. Yes, to repeat once again, the human connection to climate change is quite real, regardless of how desperately some try to deny it. Go to Climate Change.
If you don't like this kind of health care system, what are you planning on doing about it? Our insurance executive here is laughing all the way to Palm Beach. It won't go away on its own.
Chinese assets are very safe.
(Timothy Geithner, Secretary of Treasury)
Morsel-Blandishment-Sport-Desire-Climax-Barbarian! But you, kid, are ahead of all the Latin girls.
(Ausonius, Roman poet 310-395)
An able Goth wants to be like a Roman; only a poor Roman would want to be like a Goth.
(Theodoric, king of the Ostrogoths 454-526)
Frank Rich points out in his New York Times column this past Sunday that, according to Census Bureau data, America will be a “white-minority” country by 2042.
Now the next step will be to train the American media.
Climate change is not merely an intellectual abstraction to more and more of the world's poor and most vulnerable. See Geetu's Story.
We Have Met The Enemy and He is Us
(from “Pogo” by Walt Kelly)
As reported on National Public Radio two days ago, a gentleman was interviewed from a county in Virginia that went heavily for McCain in last November's presidential election. Obama was going to this particular region of the country to explain his health care proposal.
This man had lost his job and was now unemployed. His two children were on Medicaid. When asked if he would support President Obama's health care plan he said no. He said it would just help those “minorities.”
I guess I would call my reaction sardonic when I learned a few days ago that Bush had classified satellite images of the shrinking summer ice cover in the Arctic.
I also wondered at the same time if we could throw half the U.S. Congress into federal prison for aiding and abetting George's war crimes.
But “those” crimes would pale in comparison if the 8 years we lost in addressing climate change during the Bush years proved to be the tipping point. I know, difficult to determine precisely in a court of law. And would a court, any court, make any difference at that point.
