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On this anniversary of the largest accidental marine oil spill in history, attention here in south Louisiana is focused on the consequences of that traumatic event. As the Deepwater Horizon disaster begins to recede into history, we have heard wildly divergent views of what its effects have been for our region.
On [...]

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“Dolphins off the bow!”
I race to the front of the WeatherBird II, a research vessel owned by the University of South Florida. There they are, doing their sleek silvery thing, weaving between translucent waves, disappearing under the boat, reappearing in perfect formation on the other side.
After taking my fill of phone video [...]

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Naomi gave the following talk at the first-ever TEDWomen conference on December 8, 2010, in Washington, DC. It includes a few of the slides that accompanied the talk.

I just did something I’ve never done before. I spent a week at sea on a research vessel. I’m not a scientist but I was [...]

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Desastres socio-ecológicos y responsabilidad política y empresarial
Después de contemplar aliviados cómo la Pachamama gustó de volver a parir milagrosamente a los 33 mineros chilenos, y de haber derramado lágrimas y suspiros de alivio frente a la caja boba, es el momento para enfriar la cabeza y volver a la reflexión.
Los medios masivos se centran en [...]

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Source: GRITtv
“We have to build that independent left. It has to be so strong and so radical and so militant and so powerful that it becomes irresistible.”
Who better to say such a thing than Naomi Klein, Nation columnist, author of The Shock Doctrine and No Logo, and longtime rabblerouser? Naomi makes a special visit to [...]

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It will be five years since Katrina on August 29. The impact of Katrina is quite painful for regular people in the area. This article looks at what has happened since Katrina not from the perspective of the higher ups looking down from their offices but from the street level view of the people – a view which looks at the impact on the elderly, the renter, people of color, the disabled, the working and non-working poor. So, while one commentator may happily say that the median income in New Orleans has risen since Katrina, a street level perspective recognizes that is because large numbers of the poorest people have not been able to return.

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Crustáceos del Golfo de México crecen con gotas de crudo en su interior, las aves empetroladas sirven de alimento a los coyotes y los tiburones se asfixian cuando el petróleo que tragan tapona sus branquias.

Dentro de las valvas de diminutos cangrejos azules que apenas están dejando de ser larvas se han hallado gotitas de petróleo, dice a este reportero Harriet Perry, directora del Laboratorio de Investigaciones de la Costa del Golfo en la Universidad de Mississippi del Sur, Estados Unidos. Según el Servicio Federal de Pesca y Vida Silvestre de Estados Unidos, hasta el 14 de julio, unos 890 kilómetros de la costa del Golfo están cubiertos de crudo, se recuperaron 2.930 aves (1.828 muertas y 1.102 cubiertas de combustible), y más de 500 tortugas marinas y mamíferos muertos.

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If you live on the Gulf Coast, welcome to the real world of oil — and just know that you’re not alone. In the Niger Delta and the Ecuadorian Amazon, among other places, your emerging hell has been the living hell of local populations for decades. Despite the Santa Barbara oil spill of 1969 and the Exxon Valdez in 1989, Americans are only now starting to wake up to the fate that, for half a century, has befallen the Delta and the Amazon, both ecosystems at least as rich and varied as the Gulf of Mexico. Think of oil civilization in its late stages as a form of global terrorism.

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La semana pasada, la Guardia Costera impuso nuevas restricciones a la cobertura de los medios. Los periodistas pueden recibir multas de hasta 40.000 dólares o penas de prisión de entre uno y cinco años si violan la regla que les impide acercarse a menos de 20 metros de cualquier bomba o embarcación de limpieza.

El Comando Unificado, creado por el gobierno de Barack Obama para atender la situación ambiental, arguye que se trata de una “zona de seguridad” y que cualquier intruso puede obstaculizar las tareas.

Pero hay muchos indicios de que el cerco a la prensa ha aumentado en muchas otras maneras.

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Source: Al Jazeera English

What happens when the world runs out of oil? Who and what will be the dominant power in the 21st century?

The world is running out of oil.
Increasing global demand has outstripped supply.
The solution has been to search for oil in ever more remote regions of the world, requiring ever greater technological commitments, [...]

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