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Has The Arctic Melt Passed
The Point Of No Return?
www.countercurrents.org/connor181208.htm
Scientists have found the first unequivocal evidence that the Arctic region is warming at a faster rate than the rest of the world at least a decade before it was predicted to happen

20 Ways To Save Mother Earth And Prevent Environmental Disaster
By Evo Morales
www.countercurrents.org/morales181208.htm
Humankind is capable of saving the Earth if we recover the principles of solidarity, complementarity and harmony with nature in contraposition to the reign of competition, profits and rampant consumption of natural resources

Four Truths About Climate Change We Can’t Igonore
By Gwynn Dyer
www.countercurrents.org/dyer181208.htm
About 70 interviews, a dozen countries and 18 months later, I have reached four conclusions that I didn’t even suspect when I began the process. The first is simply this: The scientists are really scared. Their observations over the past two or three years suggest that everything is happening a lot faster than their climate models predicted

The Most Important Number On Earth
By Bill McKibben
www.countercurrents.org/mckibben181208.htm
We have a number-350. The most important number on earth. If the Internet has a cosmic purpose, this could be it-to take that number and spread it everywhere on the planet, so that everyone, even if they knew little else about climate change, understood that it represented a kind of safety, a bulwark against the monsoon turning erratic, the sea rising over their fields, the mosquito spreading up their mountain

Peak Oil: At Last, A Date
By George Monbiot
www.countercurrents.org/monbiot181208.htm
For the first time, the International Energy Agency has produced a date for peak oil. International Energy Agency (IEA) in its World Energy Outlook report for 2007 says World oil resources are judged to be sufficient to meet the projected growth in demand to 2030 ; though it says nothing about what happens at that point, or whether they will continue to be sufficient after 2030

Counting Sea Gulls
By Mickey Z.
www.countercurrents.org/mickeyz181208.htm
A sky darkened for days by a single flock of birds? Seems like another planet to me

America: The Choice Ahead
By Mohammed Mesbahi & Adam Parsons
www.countercurrents.org/parsons181208.htm
As the world economy continues to deteriorate, the American public must influence a momentous turnaround in global priorities and light the way for other countries in how to live a simpler, more sustainable lifestyle

Iraqi Government Seeks Criminal Prosecution
Of Anti-Bush Protestor
By James Cogan
www.countercurrents.org/cogan181208.htm
Muntadhar al-Zaidi, the 29-year-old journalist who, in an act of protest, hurled his shoes at George Bush during a press conference on Sunday, was hauled before an investigating judge of the Central Criminal Court in Baghdad yesterday

China Slumps As Global Recession Deepens
By Mike Head
www.countercurrents.org/head181208.htm
In the latest shock to the global economy, China’s industrial production is declining sharply, indicating that the entire national output is contracting. The official statistics for November are a staggering measure of how quickly the world slump is worsening, cutting off demand for Chinese exports

Assessing The Bush Legacy: The Measure Of The Man And His Administration
By Stephen Lendman
www.countercurrents.org/lendman181208.htm
Assessing the Bush legacy – from its illegitimate birth; through its lawless, belligerent years; to the world potentially on the brink at its end. Exploring it fully as a change of command approaches, and an unenviable task awaits the new incumbent

Buddhism: Beyond The Dalit Shadow
By Rahul Gade
www.countercurrents.org/gade181208.htm
Buddhism is spirit that has overcome the dalit shadow. Buddhism is the hope for the broken dalit. If the past has been dalit the future has to be Buddhist, anything lower would be less than honoring full human potential

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