Category: CommUnity of Minds

Reposted from the San Francisco Chronicle. Mark Morford Go ahead, name your movement. Name something good and positive and pro-environment and eco-friendly that’s happening right now in the newly “greening” […]

The truth is especially hard to believe if it requires that we take action—if it requires that we change. If humanity is to have a future, we must take action—we […]

E. O. Wilson Except for giant meteorite strikes or other such catastrophes, Earth has never experienced anything like the contemporary human juggernaut. We are in a bottleneck of overpopulation and […]

Naomi Wolf Last autumn, there was a military coup in Thailand. The leaders of the coup took a number of steps, rather systematically, as if they had a shopping list. […]

George Monbiot It was first proposed, as far as I can discover, in 1842, by Alfred Tennyson. Since then the idea has broken the surface and sunk again at least […]

William Brandon Shanley A 2004 analysis of data by the US Census reports that 60 million Americans now live on less than $7 per day. That’s one in five in […]

Reposted from The Edge. [First published in The New Republic, 3.19.07.] Steven Pinker In sixteenth-century Paris, a popular form of entertainment was cat-burning, in which a cat was hoisted in […]

Reposted from Truthdig. Scott Ritter In the months leading up to President Bush’s ill-fated invasion of Iraq, I traveled around the world speaking to various international groups, including many parliamentary […]

Craig Bowron You’ve heard the facts about global warming, but it all seems so unimaginable, so inconceivable, as if it were an overhyped, ecofriendly version of the deeply disappointing Y2K […]

Reposted from Truthdig. Scott Ritter The ongoing hand-wringing in Congress by the newly empowered Democrats over what to do about the war in Iraq speaks volumes about the level of […]