Corporate exploitation of ignorance on climate change has made it nearly impossible for half the population in the United States to face the reality that man-made activity has made the earth dangerously warmer. Politicians, controlled by carbon polluting extractive industries, have successfully sold climate change as a lie cooked up by scheming liberals. Demonizing science combined with a media weakened to the point of complete ineffectiveness has allowed a set of curious alliances to threaten the future of life on Earth.
Continue reading Trento’s Take: Dire Consequences for Oceans
Two newspapers in India ran headlines last week repeating the charge that the US reaction to the Gulf Coast disaster, which has killed 11 people, and to Bhopal, where at least 15,000 died as a result of exposure to toxic gases leaking from a US-owned pesticide plant, was evidence of double standards.
According to studies, the cooling intake system of the Bay Shore power plant near Toledo kills billions of fish each year. Fishers, boaters, residents and environmental groups are releasing a new study outlining the economic effects of the massive fish kills caused by the coal plant.
