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Please take a look at the video below. It clearly illustrates the path we should take with Global Climate Change.

tags: globalwarming climatechange

The Toronto Star ran an article last Sunday which explores a discussion Susan and I had on that same day! I just found it today through TreeHugger as I don't read the Star.

There are many environmental issues people are trying to solve in the world, such as global warming, species extinction and pollution, to name a few. The elephant in the room that nobody talks about is human overpopulation. That is the base problem behind all of the environmental issues we're facing.

tags: environment globalwarming overpopulation wikipedia treehugger

Just read
You Call Yourself a Progressive -- But You Still Eat Meat?
By Kathy Freston, AlterNet

Beginning with a recent report on climate change and a UN report that identifies the livestock sector as one of the top contributors to the most serious problems facing the environment, Ms. Freeson discusses six responses or concerns that non-vegetarians have expressed to the author, followed by the five most common arguments for eating meat. She addresses each one with solid arguments.

tags: diet health globalwarming vegetarian intelligence

Michael Shermer, self-styled "skeptic" and global warming naysayer, has recently flipped. He claims that it was 86 leading evangelical Christians issuing the Evangelical Climate Initiative that made him sit up and take notice. Only then did he see Al Gore deliver his "Inconvenient Truth" talk and subsequently pass his personal flipping point.

I'm very much looking forward to Shermer's upcoming "activism".

tags: globalwarming climatechange michaelshermer shermer

Here's a video by Leonardo DiCaprio describing in simple terms what global warming is and why it's a threat. Of course, people here already know this stuff, but random Googlers who happen upon our site may be exposed to it when the might otherwise have missed it.

tags: globalwarming climatechange leonardo dicaprio