08.26.08
Global warming…global destabalization
Dispatch from Denver: Making Climate Change THE Issue
by Jeffrey Allen
DENVER - Author and environmental leader David Orr is upset about the corruption of language in the United States. He doesn’t like how some groups have co-opted phrases like “pro-life” and “conservative” to promote their own political agendas, which often have little to do with saving lives or acting conservatively. But the greatest travesty, he says, is the way Americans throw around the term “global warming.”
Climate change panel. From left to right are Betsy Taylor of 1Sky, Lester Brown of the Earth Policy Institute, Randy Hayes of the Rainforest Action Network, author David Orr, and Chuck Kutscher of the National Renewable Energy Laboratories. (© Jeffrey Allen / OneWorld.net)”This isn’t ‘global warming,’” he exclaims with an air of severity and deep concern. “This is planetary destabilization. And it’s already begun. The question is: How do we arrest this before it gets to the point of catastrophe?”
John Coover said,
August 27, 2008 at 9:44 am
The community of Nations must come together and accept that the Earth is for all pratical purposes an Island. The oceans cannot be continue to be used as dumping ground for refuse. We are seeing larger and larger dead zones in our oceans. As of now the human race is proceeding as if it were trying to emulate lemmings, running off the cliff when populations outgrew their living space. I am left with the thought that “Things will get worse before they get worser.” I will change my mind when the UN has a conference and announces that indeed the earth must be considered an Island. If that happens then the human race has a small chance to keep from destroying the only earth we have.