Pakistan is flooding again, millions more homeless. Panic about Dengue fever. Dengue in the Caribbean now, 12 cases reported this year in Florida. Learn what Dengue is, what to do. New diseases with global warming. Then a powerful speech by Robert F. Kennedy Jr., at the Commonwealth Club of Calif. How coal poisoned us all, & fish too. How corporations control media, stifling Progressive radio. Plus a vision of fossil-free America.
Dengue fever is a new consequence of a warming planet and globalized shipping. The bug carrying it, the Asian Tiger mosquito, was found in Los Angeles last week. Learn how to recognize it from this broadcast.
If Dengue fever breaks out for real, it will cause panic and possibly crash the hospital system, as just happened in Pakistan (e.g. in Lahore). Absolute record breaking rain, way beyond a normal Monsoon, just slammed the Port city of Karachi, Pakistan's largest metropolis.
With 800,000 Pakistanis still homeless from last year's deluge, another 2 million are currently homeless or evacuated. Hundreds have died.
Will extreme rainfall events and flooding challenge civilization sooner and harder than rising seas?
(Just look at the record rains that hit Virginia and New England last week...)
Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s speech to the Commonwealth Club of California (courtesy of Climate One) is a blockbuster. It's bitter and still hopeful at the same time.
Covers general poisoning by coal, killing humans & fish. His vision of renewable energy and a new power grid for America, quick review of other countries from Iceland to Brazil. Plus pithy look at how corporate advertising controls news media, while boycotting alternative views.
For some quotes from the speech, check out this week's Radio Ecoshock blog at
http://www.ecoshock.info
If Dengue fever breaks out for real, it will cause panic and possibly crash the hospital system, as just happened in Pakistan (e.g. in Lahore). Absolute record breaking rain, way beyond a normal Monsoon, just slammed the Port city of Karachi, Pakistan's largest metropolis.
With 800,000 Pakistanis still homeless from last year's deluge, another 2 million are currently homeless or evacuated. Hundreds have died.
Will extreme rainfall events and flooding challenge civilization sooner and harder than rising seas?
(Just look at the record rains that hit Virginia and New England last week...)
Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s speech to the Commonwealth Club of California (courtesy of Climate One) is a blockbuster. It's bitter and still hopeful at the same time.
Covers general poisoning by coal, killing humans & fish. His vision of renewable energy and a new power grid for America, quick review of other countries from Iceland to Brazil. Plus pithy look at how corporate advertising controls news media, while boycotting alternative views.
For some quotes from the speech, check out this week's Radio Ecoshock blog at
http://www.ecoshock.info 
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Great, though if national power grids dont happen,local grids are likely better
26.09.2011 03:37
Very interesting to hear Iceland was so poor before geothermal& brazil before its eco power economy. Truth laws for the media like in Canada would be good for all countries. ,
Great to know that Gordon Brown did at least one good thing with the large windpower network in the Atlantic that could also connect the EU to Icelands geothermal spings.
Freemarket capitalism & democracy together with a strong constitution can be ok, but thats not really freemarket capitalism to most.
jim