Wednesday, December 8, 2010

While you were arguing about taxes...

by LaughingPlanet

Flooded-Earth

primary challenges, and Dancing with the Stars, our planet is galloping one day closer to real-life Waterworld.


Yesterday on my local listener-supported radio, I heard a powerful & terrifying interview with the author of a book I am now afraid to read.

"The Flooded Earth" by University of Washington professor Peter D. Ward, paints a detailed picture of where we are headed in the not-distant future. If mankind does not change its ways, and quick, the reality of what our planet will look like is not pretty, to put it very mildly.


Hearing the facts about climate change, it is hard for me to watch our current discourse about minor day-to-day trifles when it is so clearly this one, singular issue which will supersede all else unless we turn our full attention to it right now.



continued at Daily Kos....