Deadly Weather: ‘This Is Just the Beginning’
Recent weeks have seen the worst wildfires in Colorado history, the breaking of 2,000 temperature records, a mid-Atlantic storm that killed 23 and left millions without power, and a heat wave that sent the East Coast and the Midwest back to the Dust Bowl of the 1930s. But few mainstream meteorologists are talking about climate change.
Recent weeks have seen the worst wildfires in Colorado history, the breaking of 2,000 temperature records, a mid-Atlantic storm that killed 23 and left millions without power, and a heat wave that sent the East Coast and the Midwest back to the Dust Bowl of the 1930s. But few mainstream meteorologists are talking about climate change.
Suzanne Goldenberg, U.S. environment correspondent for The Guardian, and Jeff Masters, meteorology director at the Weather Underground Institute, discuss these events on “Democracy Now!”
Christian Parenti, professor of sustainable development at the School for International Training and author of “Tropic of Chaos,” joins the discussion to argue that the right-wing assault on the public sector leaves Americans more vulnerable to the effects of global warming.
— Posted by Alexander Reed Kelly.
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The Truthdig columnist and "On Contact" host discusses heightened global conflict due to climate change with author and professor Christian Parenti (pictured).
It is only when we face the bleak future before us that we can begin to use the words “hope” and “resistance.”
Don’t expect the present anti-government “consensus” to last. Global warming and the freaky, increasingly extreme weather that will accompany it is going to change all that.
Catastrophic convergence, the “collision of political, economic, and environmental disasters,” is the theme of Christian Parenti's epic new book, “Tropic of Chaos.” “Tropic of Chaos” paints a grim picture of what happens when political, economic and environmental disasters meet.
Christian Parenti, who writes regularly for The Nation magazine, has published a book detailing some of the present and future social impacts of climate change. In an essay on Tom Dispatch.com, he connects the rising cost of bread to the revolutionary uprisings in the Middle East and Northern Africa. (more)
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