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Climate: Driving Toward Extinction

Alex Smith | 03.12.2012 20:27 | Climate Chaos | Ecology | Sheffield | World

Are we on the road to climate extinction? Dr. Guy McPherson lays out the case in this speech at Bluegrass Bioneers in Kentucky. Then the World Bank says "Turn Down the Heat". Daphne Wysham on their coal addiction, and Olivia Maria
Serdeczny from the Potsdam Institute in Germany, authors of the report for the Bank. Is collapse our best way out of a Hellish world? Radio Ecoshock 121205

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This week on Radio Ecoshock, more revelations of coming climate disasters, as the fossil fuel bubble expands. Even the World Bank, which funded plenty of big coal plants, admits we are headed for a world 4 degrees Celsius, or 7.2 degrees Faherenheit hotter.

We talk with Olivia Maria Serdezny from the Potsdam Institute in Germany, authors of the report for the Bank.

I also include a short clip as Daphne Wysham explains the World Banks sorry record of funding big coal plants in Kosovo, South Africa, and India - lending billions of dollars. Isn't it a bit late to ask what happens when you fund all that coal burning?

But first, I toss you into the deep end. If our recent broadcast of Kevin Anderson of the Tyndall Institute shocked you, Dr. Guy McPherson will blow you away. As recorded at the Bluegrass Bioneers conference in Louisville Kentucky November 2, 2102, courtesy of film-maker Ben Evans (at yert.com)

I'm not so sure our industrial system will collapse anytime soon, but I fact-checked everything McPherson said about runaway climate change. He's got it right. You need to hear this.

Show blog published Wednesday at  http://www.ecoshock.info with all the links.

Alex Smith
- Homepage: http://www.ecoshock.org

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climate change

04.12.2012 14:10

there might be climate change, and it might be man made

NN


Re-tool the Entire Industrial Revolution.

06.12.2012 18:47

Coal, gas, oil, and atomic energy is destroying the planet's livability and therefore the last fifty years of ecological green revolution has brought into being the high and low tech tools to put in place wind, tidal, and solar power that transforms to electricity and is more power than can be used by all societies in every country. No more blackouts. This non-pollution solution is gvien freely in natures kinder laws and provides work for all and forever more. Workers of the world unite!! End pollution wars not endless wars for more and more pollution. Ye yet have a world to win!!

Kelly


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