That magic iCloud, our e-brilliance is being beamed up to, ain’t no cloud, but warehouses stuffed with memory-servers kept running 24-7 by mammoth banks of polluting diesel generators.
Environmental Issues
WilderUtopia sees environmental issues as publicizing harmful effects of human activity on the biophysical environment, and seeking methods to solve problems, transcend boundaries and build a better and more sustainable future. Environmentalism, a social and environmental movement that spans race, ethnicity, gender, and socioeconomic status, addresses environmental issues through advocacy, education and activism.
Vicki Kirschenbaum: Legislation Can Stop Global Warming
Vicki Kirschenbaum of Citizens Climate Lobby advocates for legislation that puts a fee on carbon pollution to stop global warming. This would spur energy conservation, create incentives for investment in renewables, lower greenhouse gas emissions, and reduce the devastating environmental impacts of burning fossil fuels.
Scariest Workplace in the USA, Shut Down, Still Scary – By Jerry Collamer
California’s San Onofre Nuke Plant, although switched off, leaks radioactivity, and threatens a population of 8 million. It should be shut down permanently, today.
Bryan Killett: Jumpstart a Clean Energy Economy and Cool the Climate
Rising CO2 emissions from the burning of fossil fuels has resulted in extreme weather and economic danger. A revenue neutral fee and dividend plan could spur a clean energy industrial revolution and reduce global warming.
San Onofre Nuke Plant: When the Bottom Line Pushes Us Over the Cliff – By Jerry Collamer
What’s it going to take to have Edison admit its deadly addiction to nuclear, and mothball SONGS forever, before its thunder domes of molten uranium go over the cliff and 8-million citizens suffer the horrific, eternal consequences?
Beasts of the Southern Wild: Bayou Culture Sinking into the Gulf
“Beasts,” a hard-knock ecological fairy tale about the disappearing Louisiana bayou cultures and coastline, highlights the fragility of the region’s hurricane defenses and the resulting devastation of communities living on the flooding margins.
Tantoo Cardinal on Tar Sands: No Energy More Powerful than Natural Force
The Earth has a voice. And the fact that any native people have survived on the planet should be a clue that there’s a way that does not include money and politics. We have survived by our relationship with natural force. Water is sacred. Air is sacred. If the tar sands isn’t stopped, we are going to have a whole new set of problems.