Is global warming unstoppable now? Could we be saved by total economic collapse? If so, should we help civilization fall? It’s another cheery edition of Radio Ecoshock, with your darkness at the end of the tunnel, Alex Smith. There are lots of links …
What will our grandchildren experience in the year 2080? Or will some of you feel the heat, the climate and social disruption as soon as 2060? Scientific studies are pouring out their warnings – we have already passed the danger levels. And there …
They’re on practically every corner. Some people feel nervous at the gas pump. Others are outraged. Everybody knows prices are going nowhere but up. Did you know a gallon of gas weighs about 6 pounds – or 2.7 kilos? Almost all of it …
This is Alex Smith. In this new start to the Fall 2009 season, we thrash out the triple crisis with Jan Lundberg, a former oil and gas industry expert. I say former, because he left “the Lundberg Oil and Gas Letter” in the …
Every day tankers and pipelines carry black gold to power industrial society. The coal trains and ships deliver more carbon for the great bonfire of humanity. We know for a certainty, if we keep on burning it all, our planet will become hot, …
This is Radio Ecoshock. I’m Alex Smith with eye-popping headlines on the triple crisis: Peak Oil, climate change, and economic collapse. While America basks in Obama, Europe quietly fell further apart over the week-end. On Martin Luther King Day, the British government announced …
As #1 supplier of oil to USA, Canada’s tar sands kill the environment, locals, and pollute the world’s atmosphere. Canada can never control its emissions with this giant carbon smokestack to the sky. Now they want to make the damage five times greater. …
Experts predict Mexico, America’s number 3 oil producer, will run out of oil in just 7 years. OPEC producers have been lying about their reserves for years. The world is starting new subterranean military tensions – or outright wars – just to keep …
NASA scientist James Hansen shakes up Capitol Hill (and the media) with explosive testimony to the Select Committee on Energy Independence and Climate Change. For one thing, he thinks oil industry executives who purposely (and secretly) fund groups to confuse the public about …
Those are the choices. CONNECTIONS FOR THIS WEEK’S RADIO ECOSHOCK SHOWWeek of May 30th, 2008 Guest: Michael T. Klare (new book “Rising Powers, Shrinking World”)Listen to the Ecoshock Klare interview here.(http://www.ecoshock.org/downloads/nuclear/ES_Klare_RisingPowers_LoFi.mp3)Read his blog at http://www.tomdispatch.com Space For Peace activist Bruce GagnonListen to the …
Polluted cities kills hundreds of thousands. Under-reported plague from vehicle emissions. 2 interviews. We are honored to have as a guest on this weeks’ show: Dr. Joel Schwartz, Harvard’s top expert on air pollution. I discuss Dr. Schwartz’ testimony to Congress in late …
Even President George Bush admits we are addicted to oil. But what does that really mean? THE PSYCHOLOGY OF ADDICTION Dr. Bruce Alexander, a professor emeritus at Simon Fraser University in Canada, is a pioneer researching addiction. His ideas are so unconventional, he …