Comments on: Cocoa Krispies: Not a Health Food? http://dissidentvoice.org/2009/11/cocoa-krispies-not-a-health-food/ a radical newsletter in the struggle for peace and social justice Mon, 10 Jun 2013 19:49:40 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 By: Don Hawkins http://dissidentvoice.org/2009/11/cocoa-krispies-not-a-health-food/#comment-58732 Don Hawkins Sat, 07 Nov 2009 19:53:59 +0000 http://dissidentvoice.org/?p=11783#comment-58732 When making his Oscar-winning 2006 documentary, An Inconvenient Truth, Gore arguably had it easy: it’s fairly straightforward to grip an audience when you’re portraying scenes of apocalyptic destruction. The new book pulls off a considerably more impressive feat. It focuses on solving the crisis, yet manages to be absorbing on a topic that is all too often – can we just come clean about this, please? – crushingly boring. Importantly, it seeks to enlist readers as political advocates for the cause, rather than just urging them to turn down the heating. “It’s important to change lightbulbs,” he says, in a well-burnished soundbite, “but more important to change policies and laws.” Or perhaps to break laws instead: peaceful occupations of the kind witnessed recently in the UK, he predicts, are only going to become more widespread. “Civil disobedience has an honourable history, and when the urgency and moral clarity cross a certain threshold, then I think that civil disobedience is quite understandable, and it has a role to play. And I expect that it will increase, no question about it.” People sometimes express incredulity that Gore, who was groomed for the presidency almost since birth, seems so resolved that he’ll never return to electoral politics. But here’s a vivid example of the benefits of life on the outside: how many serving politicians would feel able to come so close to urging people to commit trespass? Guardian

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“It won’t be very long before we have to start thinking of the Arctic as an open sea. Man has taken the lid off the northern end of his planet and we can’t put that lid back on again”. Peter Wadhams, Professor of Ocean Physics and Head of the Polar Physics Group

The Crackle

Worldwide weather patterns unlike anything we human’s have seen

The Pop

The fight to survive and better to start now.

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