May 2011
9 posts
Hey World, I've Got Bad News~
The richest 10% hold 85% of total global assets and the bottom half of humanity owns less than 1% of the wealth in the world. The three richest men in the world have more money than the poorest 48 countries.
Half the tropical forests in the world, the lungs of our ecosystem, are gone. By 2030, at the present rate of extraction or so-called harvest, only 10% will be left standing.
In...
Stop Scapegoating China
About 80% of the world’s greenhouse gas emissions have come from 20% of the world’s population — represented in Canada, the US, the European Union, Japan, and a few other developed nations.
That’s not China. Not India either. It’s the developed world that is 80% responsible for the climate crisis and it is us in the developed world that should be responsible for...
4 Years of Harpies. Canada is Going to Hell
In the biggest heartbreak since the loss of the House of Representatives to the republicans, Canada’s conservative party has taken a large majority in the house of commons. For Canadians, this means an expansion of tar sands operations, more troops in the Arctic and Afghanistan, the decline of Canadian provincial authority, green jobs, and an elimination of the longgun registry as well as...
