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One Enormous Hole
This massive cavity in the ground is so vast it looks like it’s threatening to suck in and devour its adjacent township – like the rows of houses are trying to square up to the gargantuan hole or simply hanging on the brink of imminent catastrophe. Looking like the Sarlacc Pit on steroids, this monstrosity is the Super Pit, and it sure puts that annoying pothole on your route to work in perspective.
Continue reading...The World Is Ending; Texas Leads The Way
Thursday, March 20, 2008
Tuesday the Environmental Integrity Project, a nonpartisan nonprofit organization released a report on the carbon emissions of U.S. power plants, and the news is not good. Leaping UP almost 3 percent, the largest change in a decade, it seems possible that even in this green-aware era, [...]
Continue reading...James Lovelock Says Live It Up: We’ve Got “20 years before it hits the fan”
Sunday, March 2, 2008
This is a follow-up to my previous post, “If You Knew the World Would End in the Near Future, What Would You Do?” Smile, this guy says we’re all screwed! It’s not the way I wanted to start my Saturday, reading that James Lovelock, the author of the [...]
Continue reading...It’s the Economy, Stupid
Sunday, February 3, 2008
And by economy, I mean economic growth. And by stupid, I mean politicians and others who preach that a continuously growing economy is the only way. And by the headline in toto, I mean most of us are stupid. Here’s why. As an Inconvenient Truth presenter and a [...]
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Monday, June 1, 2009
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