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Global warming -- Lessons from the present financial crisis

Published on: Apr 06, 2009 by Mridu Verma

Last updated on: Apr 06, 2009

Keywords: climate change, financial crisis; toxic assets, global warming, greenhouse gases

Categories: Soil

Thomas Friedman in his article Our excesses are toxic to markets and Mother Nature says, "It's now obvious that the reason we're experiencing a simultaneous meltdown in the financial system and the climate system is because we have been mispricing risk in both arenas — producing a huge excess of toxic assets and toxic air that now threatens the stability of the whole planet."

Economic experts have been opining that toxic assets accumulated by the banks have been one of the key factors ...
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Age of Stupor

Published on: Mar 30, 2009 by Carl Munson

Last updated on: Mar 30, 2009

Keywords: age of stupid, age of stupor, climate change, peak oil

Categories: Society

You may have heard that a new 'last chance to tackle climate change' film has been released. Its name: Age of Stupid; its effect, so far fairly minimal, apart from its re-rousing of the 'converted' when it comes to such issues.

In my world, climate change (as well as its troublesome relatives - peak oil, the capitalism crunch and a gross misunderstanding of what human beings are really for) is a given, a foundational issue around which I structure my lifestyle.

A site I facilitate, ...
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