[SHOW TRANSCRIPT] The carbon bomb. Were the recent wild fires in California a sign of global warming? Did you know that the whole American West is tinder, ready to burn? Today we start with California, but then discover the whole Rocky mountain chain …
In the last few years, as the North heats up, wild fires have been burning, unreported and unopposed, across the top of the world, in both Canada and Siberia. The latest climate models used by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change does NOT …
Sir David King warns we are headed toward a hot-state planet, not seen since 55 million years ago (when life huddled on Antarctica). The only way out, he says, is a binding international agreement by 2009. Even so, we only have a window …
As the Iraq war stumbles into bloody nowhere, who – just what kind of madmen – could ramp up for yet another war, this time against Iran? Seasoned journalist Seymour Hersh attempts to answer this question, in the Amnesty International 2007 Lecture, delivered …
What ever label humans give their system – Capitalism, Socialism, any-ism – the name of the game is consume the planet as fast as we can. That’s what deep green author and activist Derrick Jensen tells me in this first Ecoshock interview with …
Does capitalism have to fall – to save the Earth? Dr. Joel Kovel thinks so. He’s the influential lefty academic who wrote “Enemy of Nature.” The subtitle was “The End of Capitalism, or the End of the World.” Kovel was in Vancouver to …
[To hear the whole show, including the 3 interviews, click the title above in Blogger, or go to http://www.ecoshock.net/eshock/ES_070914_Show.mp3] [As prepared before air. Items in [square brackets] were cut due to time limits.] ALEX SMITH: Today we’re going to continue our investigation of …
[In Blogger, to hear the show, click the title above.] When we purchase carbon offsets, or companies claim to be “carbon neutral” – are we kidding ourselves? In the first of a two-part radio series, we look at one of the best-known “green” …
(To hear the interview with F. William Engdahl in Blogger, click title above) When President Bush says he’s taking action for energy independence, and to curb carbon, you know he’s going to pick the wrong way to the wrong target. Sure enough, that’s …
To hear the audio interview with Gregory Greene, Director of “Escape from Suburbia” click the title above. This 27 minute interview was selected for replay on the Indymedia show of KPFK Los Angeles, on the Pacifica Network, after it’s original broadcast on CFRO …
[As broadcast – to hear the audio click the title above] This is Alex Smith, asking, why are so many in the 911 Truth movement so hostile to the reality of climate change? On June 22nd, 2007 the traveling road show of 911 …
When some right wing pseudo fascist nut is convicted, or discovered in the bedroom of a little boy, something inside me accepts. I want to cheer, but I don’t, because it shows we are all kind of crazy, in some way. But at …