I’m trying to be hopeful with this Administration, but it is not easy. First, there was the appointment of a factory farm insider to the Agriculture post, then another Westerner interested mostly in exploiting our wild places for oil and gas to the Interior post, and now this disaster from the EPA. It seems to [...]
Filed under: conservation, environment, global climate change | Tagged: epa approves mountaintop removal, obama sells out mountains for coals, the clean coal myth | 2 Comments »
Here’s another guest post from kestrel, and it speaks plainly about the WWF-sponsored Earth Hour and why many of us are not participating. Another blogger called them “World Wildlife Felons” and that sums up that organization quite perfectly. When the lights go out at 8:30 p.m. for Earth Hour, the lingering stench of death and [...]
Filed under: animal rights, global climate change, wildlife conservation | Tagged: boycott Canada, canadian seal slaughter, earth hour, world wildlife fund | 1 Comment »
Fellow blogger “Tipping Point” recently posted more information about the tar sands oil project in Alberta, Canada. What’s that you say? Tar sands? What about clean energy? Tar sands is an environmentally destructive and insanely expensive method of extracting bitumen, then processed into synthetic crude oil. According to the Washington Post: Tar sands oil is [...]
Filed under: conservation, environment, global climate change | Tagged: great apes, offshore drilling, tar sands project | 1 Comment »
The International Union for the Conservation of Nature released a report that details the status of the world’s mammals. It’s the first such report in 10 years. Jan Schipper of the IUCN in Gland, Switzerland said, “We estimate that one in four species is threatened with extinction and that the population of one in two [...]
Filed under: endangered species, global climate change, overpopulation, wildlife conservation | Tagged: extinction, global climate change | 4 Comments »
You should be angry about this story posted this morning on CNN about Congressional Dems allowing the ban on offshore drilling to lapse – WITHOUT A FIGHT. WASHINGTON (AP) — Democrats have decided to allow a quarter-century ban on drilling for oil off the Atlantic and Pacific coasts to expire next week, conceding defeat in [...]
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I can see that a lot of people are searching the innernets for information about McCain’s choice for running mate, Alaska governor Sarah Palin. I’ve written about her a time or two. Let’s get my opinion out of the way and then get on to the facts about this woman. I don’t like her, not [...]
Filed under: animal rights, endangered species, global climate change, wildlife conservation | Tagged: aerial wolf hunt, global warming, human overpopulation, polar bears, sarah palin | 1 Comment »
**UPDATE**Your first Take Action opportunity comes from the National Wildlife Federation. Please send a strong message to Secretary Kempthorne that we will not allow Bush/Cheney to destroy our wildlife and their habitats! I first read this news last night on CNN.com and found another story on WaPo. The proposed rule would hand over administration of [...]
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Kenya Magazine recently published an interview with Dr. Richard Leakey by Dipesh Pabari. I’ve never met Dipesh but I know him in the Internet-way from his days with Wildlife Direct. In the interview, Dr. Leakey talks mostly about climate change as it applies to Kenya, his native country, but what happens to Kenya should be [...]
Filed under: global climate change, global warming pollution, overpopulation | Tagged: climate change, dr. leakey, human overpopulation, overpopulation | Comments Off
The latest e-mail newsletter from the Center for Biological Diversity includes some facts from the National Climate Assessment, released yesterday by the Bush Administration. Here’s the press release: National Climate Assessment Finally Released — Scientists: Effects Will Be Deadly, Bush spokesperson: Don’t Worry, Be Happy In response to a court order obtained by the Center [...]
Filed under: environment, global climate change, global warming pollution | Tagged: climate change, national climate assessment | 2 Comments »
I honestly do not understand how any human animal can subject any non-human animal to the torture and suffering and horrible death of factory farming – just for the sake of taste. However, if saving the planet from the overwhelming damage caused by factory farming is the only way to separate fat-ass Americans from their [...]
Filed under: animal rights, factory farming, global climate change | 4 Comments »
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