Agnostic Carnivores and Global Warming: Why Enviros Go After Coal and Not Cows ACTIVISTS & HEROES, ANNOTATED NEWS, BATTLE OF COMMUNICATIONS, SAVING THE PLANET Comments Off Mar 102012 Photo: Climate Watch By James McWilliam, Freakonomics There’s not a single person who’s done more to fight climate change than Bill McKibben. Through thoughtful books, ubiquitous magazine contributions, and, most notably, the founding of 350.org (an international non-profit dedicated to fighting global warming), McKibben has committed his life to saving the planet. For all the passion fueling his efforts, though, there’s something weirdly amiss in his approach to reducing greenhouse gas emissions: neither he nor 350.org will actively promote a vegan diet. Continue reading » Did you like this? Share it:
SHORT STORIES: BROOKLYN BRIDGE – ARCH NO. 6 ANNOTATED NEWS, BOOK NOTES Comments Off Mar 102012 By Gaither Stewart A chilling north wind blew in the faces of the two men as they walked down a steep block of Lexington Avenue toward 103rd Street. Snow had fallen feather-light on the streets of East Harlem that morning. But after lunch the wind blowing across the river from Queens and the ocean had dissipated the black clouds and the winter sun had returned. They stopped to watch a bride in white and a man in a black tuxedo emerge from a church in a side street and run toward a limousine at the curb. Merengue rhythms echoed from an alley. From time to time Manuel nodded to people huddled in the doorways. Smells of cooking corn emerged from a street-level window. A trio of Latinos standing nearby grinned at them malevolently. Continue reading » Did you like this? Share it:
Guest Editorial: Evolving an ethical response to mice & rats ANIMAL DEFENDERS, BATTLE OF COMMUNICATIONS, ECOANIMAL, PHILOSOPHY Comments Off Mar 102012 From ANIMAL PEOPLE, March 2012: Editorial: Evolving an ethical response to mice & rats Editor’s Note: The Greanville Post publishes articles on many subjects, some of them not directly political, although the administration of society in matters concerning science and animals is certainly a political question. This piece may be a test for some readers. Some will think this is a joke, and respond with derision. They will be badly mistaken. This is an article that needs to be read and pondered. The least that it will offer any intelligent (let alone compassionate) mind is a wealth of information about a topic not many of us know a great deal about, and yet something that affects all human life even today. So read and ponder, and comment if you like. Reflecting about the ethical questions affecting other species is a lot more serious than obsessing about the American political circus.—PG By the editors of Animal People Probably the most ethically vexatious of all mammals, if not all sentient beings, are mice and rats–who are also by far the most numerous, problematic, and at times the most deadly of all non-insect “pests” to human beings. - From the origins of food storage, well before the beginnings of agriculture, mice and rats were the most ubiquitous and successful of food thieves. We owe our long association with dogs in great part to the role of dogs as rodent hunters, attracted not only to our refuse but to the chance to eat the mice and rats who were already feasting on it. Continue reading » Did you like this? Share it:
Pentagon prepares war plans for Syria ANNOTATED NEWS, ANTIWAR, The Middle East, US Foreign Policy, US Military Comments Off Mar 102012 By Bill Van Auken, WSWS.ORG, a socialist organization In testimony before a Senate committee Wednesday, the Pentagon’s civilian and uniformed chiefs confirmed that they are drawing up war plans against Syria at the request of the Obama White House. The statements by Defense Secretary Leon Panetta and Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff General Martin Dempsey came amid mounting evidence that Washington and its key European allies, working in conjunction with the right-wing monarchical regimes in Saudi Arabia and Qatar, are escalating a covert intervention aimed at bringing about Syrian regime change. Continue reading » Did you like this? Share it:
