Climate Change Deniers Take This

Most regions in Europe exhibit warming stronger than the global average

Pentagon’s characterization of climatechange as a present-day threat demanding immediate action.

Capitalism isn't bad by itself. But the accumulation of power of the few super rich elites and the externalization of costs must be Brocken and corrected. "Open source everything, in this context, offers us the chance to build on what we've learned through industrialisation, to learn from our mistakes, and catalyse the re-opening of the commons, in the process breaking the grip of defunct power structures and enabling the possibility of prosperity for all."

changing light bulbs and changing the system that's powering our destruction.

The richer we are and the more we consume, the more self-centred and careless of the lives of others we appear to become. Consumption flattens emotions and empathy.

The transition to an ecologically-based agriculture is obligatory if we hope to feed ourselves.

As technology progresses, the increase in efficiency with which a resource is used tends to increase (rather than decrease) the rate of consumption of that resource. From 1865!

All 60 seconds 36 football fields of forest are destroyed, while 114 new cars are produced.

13 of the 14 warmest years on record occurred this century and the 7 lowest Arctic sea-ice extents took place in the past 7 years says the UN.

"The only way we can achieve a two-degree goal is to shut down the whole global economy.” (Yvo de Boer, former executive secretary of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change)