Thursday, March 21, 2013

Does CBC censor contra climate change messsages? | The View From Here
The volume of emails precludes publishing all comments? In this day and age?! How very convenient. Well, convenient for a medium that is striving to (censor and/or) control the message.
What’s Up in Bear Country | Polar Bear Alley – Guide to the Polar Bears of Churchill
Hunters in Tuktoyaktuk mentioned that they are seeing more tracks of mothers and cubs than usual – some claims of a banner year over there as well.
Hypocrisy and Bill McKibben | hauntingthelibrary
McKibben’s plea that we not waste time pointing out the incongruity of those who urge us to cut back on our meat consumption, or change to energy efficient light bulbs whilst they enjoy the most opulent and extravagant lifestyles themselves (no matter how many solar panels they may have on their roof) is the most brazen hypocrisy of all. It would allow the Gores, Kleins, and Chris Martins of this world to continue their jet-setting around the world, their fat incomes and their huge homes. As McKibben would have it, when those of us who work, pay taxes and struggle to heat our homes as the cost of electricity soars, point to the hypocrisy of being told by the man in 33 room mansion (Coldplay’s Chris Martin) or the man in the private jet (James Cameron) that our actions are destroying the world, we will be met with a reassuring verbal pat on the back and the assurance that all of that doesn’t really matter. What matters, if we were to believe McKibben’s redefinition of hypocrisy, is that they care. They get it. They’re working to change the system.
Global Warming Memes: Bill McKibben. | hauntingthelibrary
Bill McKibben and the Rockerfeller family money, made from Standard Oil.

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