Posted by Jeffrey St. Clair on January 13th, 2009 | Link
The world’s amphibians are disappearing. It has been estimated that amphibians are going extinct at 211 times the normal background rate. The recent study “Climatic change and wetland desiccation cause amphibian decline in Yellowstone National Park” by Sarah K. McMenamin, Elizabeth A. Hadly, and Christopher K. Wright, suggests that Yellowstone is not immune from this world wide phenomenon.
Posted by Jeffrey St. Clair on January 13th, 2009 | Link
The Death of a Whaler
By Captain Paul Watson
I never met Hajime Shirasaki. I’m sure that if I had met him, we would not have agreed on much. He was a whaler and I detest whalers and I’m sure he detested us for our efforts to protect his victims.
But Hajime Shirasaki was also a human being with a family and friends who will miss him. And for that we sympathize with his family for their loss.
Posted by Jeffrey St. Clair on January 13th, 2009 | Link
A FINAL REPORT CARD ON THE REAGAN YEARS?
By Sam Pizzigati
Our current economic meltdown may finally have ended the era that
began when Ronald Reagan became President. Now a new study — from the
Congressional Budget Office — helps us understand the inequality that
has us melting.
Posted by Jeffrey St. Clair on January 13th, 2009 | Link
How did Marxist class warriors end up fighting for the bosses’ right to fly?
By George Monbiot.
It would be stupid to claim that environmentalism is never informed by class. Compare, for example, the campaign against patio heaters to the campaign against Agas. Patio heaters are a powerful symbol: heating the atmosphere is not a side-effect, it’s their purpose. But to match the fuel consumption of an Aga, a large domestic patio heater would have to run continuously at maximum output for three months a year(1,2). Patio heaters burn liquefied petroleum gas, while most Agas use oil, electricity or coal, which produce more CO2(3). A large Aga running on coal turns out 9 tonnes of carbon dioxide per year(4,5): five and a half times the total CO2 production of the average UK home(6). To match that, the patio heater would have to burn for 9 months.
Posted by Jeffrey St. Clair on January 13th, 2009 | Link
The number of wolves in Yellowstone National Park declined by 27 percent last year.
Posted by Joshua Frank on January 13th, 2009 | Link
Who says the economic downturn is all bad?
Posted by Joshua Frank on January 9th, 2009 | Link
As the housing markets dives, so does the forest industry.
Posted by Joshua Frank on January 8th, 2009 | Link
Posted by Joshua Frank on January 8th, 2009 | Link
A must-read essay by Mike Hudak.
Posted by Joshua Frank on January 6th, 2009 | Link
A little victory for enviros out west.
AK Press, June 2008
AK Press, May 2008
“A stunning, passionate book that takes you into the world where nature’s beauty is being savaged by the corrupt industrial-political complex.”
— Kirkpatrick Sale, author of After Eden: The Evolution of Human Domination
