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Tuesday, September 09, 2014

Chomsky On Iraq, ISIS, Global Warming, And The Anthropocene

Bill Moyers & Co: Are We Approaching the End of Human History?
The era of civilization coincides closely with the geological epoch of the Holocene, beginning over 11,000 years ago. The previous Pleistocene epoch lasted 2.5 million years. Scientists now suggest that a new epoch began about 250 years ago, the Anthropocene, the period when human activity has had a dramatic impact on the physical world. The rate of change of geological epochs is hard to ignore.

...The New York Times reported that huge Midwestern grain stocks are rotting so that the products of the North Dakota oil boom can be shipped by rail to Asia and Europe.

2 comments:

Glynn Kalara said...

OIL is a sickness a black plague every bit as deadly as the one that killed millions 500 yrs. ago. We've made a deal with the devil using his blood for energy and payment to him is coming due.

Jim Sande said...

It's interesting in a sad way, but all these things, all these problems - Iraq, ISIS, global warming, they all originate with oil.