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Houseboats moored last month on Lake Shasta in Northern California. With the state in the third year of a drought, the lake was at 35 percent of total capacity last week. Credit John G. Mabanglo/European Pressphoto Agency
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Here’s my summer reading – Poison Spring by E.G. Vallianatos. By a former employee of the Environmental Protection Agency -it tells how corporate muscle has turned the agency from being a watchdog into a “polluters protection agency”. If you want to know why there is so much cancer in our world – read this.
See this video from IPCC
Global warming scare tactics don’t work. This article explains why this project could help educate people more gently about the issues and our responsibilities.
“Although shocking, catastrophic, and large-scale representations of the impacts of climate change may well act as an initial hook for people’s attention and concern,” the researchers wrote, “they clearly do not motivate a sense of personal engagement with the issue and indeed may act to trigger barriers to engagement such as denial.”
Read the whole article here.
dialogues with mother earth 