By Chip Ward, TomDispatchMar 28, 2012
There were plenty of signs we took a wrong turn but we kept on going. Dumb, stubborn, blind: Who knows why we couldn’t stop? Greed maybe -- powerful corporations we couldn’t overcome. It won’t matter much to you who is to blame. You’ll be too busy coping in the diminished world we bequeath you. Dig deeper ( 9 Min. Read )
Staff / TruthdigMar 16, 2012
A new report predicts urban air pollution will become the No. 1 cause of premature death in the coming decades, beating out poor sanitation and dirty drinking water to take more than 3.5 million lives per year. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )
By Michael T. Klare, TomDispatchMar 14, 2012
The world still harbors large reserves of petroleum, but they are of the hard-to-reach, hard-to-refine, “tough oil” variety that will be more costly to extract, refine and buy at the pump. Dig deeper ( 10 Min. Read )
Staff / TruthdigFeb 16, 2012
Al Gore has yet another good idea that’s likely to be ignored by the business and political community: In the interest of economic and environmental sustainability, companies should be encouraged to focus on long-term rather than short-term investment goals by dropping the requirement to post quarterly earnings. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )
By Bill McKibben, TomDispatchFeb 8, 2012
If we could see the world with a particularly illuminating set of spectacles, one of its most prominent features at the moment would be a giant carbon bubble, whose bursting someday will make the housing bubble of 2007 look like a lark.At the moment, one of the world's most prominent features is a giant carbon bubble, whose bursting someday will make the housing bubble of 2007 look like a lark. Dig deeper ( 6 Min. Read )
By Christian Parenti, TomDispatchJan 28, 2012
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. Dig deeper ( 11 Min. Read )
Staff / TruthdigJan 11, 2012
Barricades in Zuccotti Park have finally come down, causing protesters to immediately reoccupy; in the face of budget cuts, some teachers opt to work for free; meanwhile, Kopimism, a new religion based on file-sharing, emerges. These discoveries and more after the jump. Dig deeper ( 2 Min. Read )
Paresh Nath, The Khaleej Times, UAEJan 9, 2012Dig deeper
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