This week on Radio Ecoshock – the losing game. One in seven Americans are now officially poor. Millions are losing their homes. The “Recovery” was just a fantasy: if we all believed hard enough – the empty shell economy could stumble on forever. …
The deadly culture of cars and air-conditioning. Radio Ecoshock Show September 10th, 2010 GO STRAIGHT TO SHOW TRANSCRIPT with all the links. The program begins with a reading from “Autogeddon” by Heathcote Williams. That was a quote from the long poem “Autogeddon” written …
Radio Ecoshock Show September 3rd, 2010 GO STRAIGHT TO THE TRANSCRIPT, with lots of links and downloads. [Radio show starts with a clip from “Fire” by Arthur Brown, 1968][plus news radio clips…] Welcome back to Radio Ecoshock. Thanks to the 22 college and …
Go straight to Show transcript, with all the links. Mainstream media carefully dances with the government, as they release the bad news in the Gulf of Mexico, one little bit at a time. For almost two months, we have heard the chorus: the …
GO straight to the Full Transcript with links now. Coast to Coast AM covers the Gulf: RICHARD C. HOAGLAND: “Gas explosion, 50 miles off Louisiana, that you can imagine. Think Mount St. Helens, underwater. What that would do is create a cloud of …
While oil gushes out of the Gulf, and the economy staggers toward the exits, scientists continue to investigate our longer future. For example, could it get so hot that large parts of the heavily inhabited Earth would have to be abandoned? And I …
“Look. I’m going to do my best to end up in a kind of hopeful optimistic place. But – I am by nature, by sort of profession, I am kind of a professional bummer-outer of people. So we’re going to have to deal …
This Ecoshock program features two interviews. We start out talking about South America, and how changes to the Amazon rainforest could impact the climate of the whole world. I also cover two jaw-dropping stories this week: #1. the complete fake-out as General Motors …
If I feel a strain this week, it’s not because of the volcano blowing planes out of the sky over Europe. Unless the larger Icelandic volcano nearby goes off, scientists say the dangerous ash will not really cool the planet much. It may …
In the Spring of 2010, the East Coast of the United States was nearly drowned in an extreme precipitation event. Ditto parts of Australia, and Rio in Brazil. This is the other half of “global warming” – global wetting. Scientists have been warning …
This is Radio Ecoshock – on the triple threat. Peak Oil, climate change, and the crumbling economy. How will you respond? KURT COBB Time after time, Kurt Cobb gets those questions ahead of the curve. Kurt is an independent writer on energy and …
NOTES AND LINKS FOR THIS WEEK’S SHOW: Why do media run “scandals” about climate science? They get full page ads from car and oil companies, and they don’t give a damn about our future. It’s all in the latest ratings, the quarterly profit …