A 'Death Warrant' in the Amazon {Earthship Friday}

by eKos

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Tonight's editor: patrickz

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The Brazilian government has given a 'green light' for construction of the world's third largest hydroelectric power plant. The Xingu river, which supports indigenous peoples and many endemic species, will be dammed, flooding 190 square miles and forcing the evacuation of 50,000 people.

In other news, El Niños Are Growing Stronger due to climate change, the wheat genome is sequenced, and James Hansen has a message about activism and greenwashing.

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Time to Take On Global Warming Deniers

by Steven D

Global warming deniers come in basically one version: the one which holds their hands to their ears and sings lalalalalalala all day, refusing to discuss any and all evidence of global warming or that fossil fuels have anything to do with it.  

They are more willing to believe the craziest conspiracy theories and outright lies rather than deal with facts.  It's a shame really, because the facts are there and they are telling us something needs to be done -- Now.  Not twenty or thirty of fifty or one hundred years in the future, but right fricking now! Like this information, for one:

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The Famine Of 2011

by Stranded Wind

 Thanksgiving of 2008 I published The Famine Of 2009. I was right about starvation, only partially right about the causes and conditions, and two years premature.

    I called my wheat farmer friend Bryan Lutter today to double check my thinking, and I'm really, really worried about what I see coming at us in 2011.

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