Earth: too big to fail?
When our economy tanked last year, politicians told us that our nation’s financial institutions were “too big to fail.” Now, as world leaders prepare for a critically important climate summit in Copenhagen, we need to ask: Is Earth too big to fail? You know the backstory: Scientific studies pile up monthly, warning of a potential collapse of our planet’s human life-support systems. Most recently, researchers calculated that the Arctic icecap — one of Earth’s largest geographic features — could disappear in 10 summers. That meltdown might unleash global weather changes that destabilize agriculture in a world where a billion people already go hungry, thereby threatening food riots and fanning the fires of global terror. Meanwhile, UCLA scientists have looked back 20 million years to find atmospheric carbon dioxide levels as high as today. Global temperatures then were 5 to 10 degrees Fahrenheit higher. Sea levels were 75 to 120 feet deeper. And Antarctica was nearly ice-free.
» Full StoryCrime of the century, not act of war
When Attorney General Eric Holder last week announced a civilian trial in New York for the alleged mastermind of the 9/11 attacks, Khalid Sheik Mohammed, and a group of his collaborators, he characterized the combined attacks as the “crime of the...
» Full StoryWhat’s up with all the littering?
Is the amount of litter on the roads increasing, or am I just becoming more aware of it? I grew up downstate in a rather populated suburban setting. There was quite a bit of litter, and it always disgusted me and my family.
» Full StoryBeen there; done that; doesn’t work
Former West Point graduate and career military officer Andrew Bacevich (now professor of history and international relations at Boston University) notes that the question of why we are in Afghanistan is “not only unanswered, but unasked.
» Full StoryGuess who’s financing the Taliban?
As President Obama considers sending more troops to Afghanistan, at least one outcome of the nation’s longest running war — eight years and counting — is certain. The number of U.S. casualties will increase, perhaps dramatically.
» Full StoryReply to Assemblywoman Sayward
Teresa Sayward is a respected member of the state Assembly and Adirondack community. Therefore, we are obliged to respond to her recent article that the “Adirondack Park experiment has failed.
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