Best Article of the Month.

Stand Still for the Apocalypse
by Chris Hedges - November 26, 2012

“The political and corporate elites in the industrialized world continue, in spite of overwhelming scientific data, to place short-term corporate profit and expediency before the protection of human life and the ecosystem.  The fossil fuel industry is permitted to determine our relationship to the natural world, dooming future generations.  Carbon dioxide (CO2), the main greenhouse gas, increased from its pre-industrial concentration of about 278 parts per million (ppm) to more than 391 ppm in September 2012, with the rate of rise now at 1.8 ppm per year.  We have already passed the tipping point of 350 ppm; above that level, life as we have known it cannot be sustained.  The CO2 concentration is higher now than at any time in the last 15 million years.  The emissions of CO2, currently about 35 billion metric tons per year, are projected to climb to 41 billion metric tons per year by 2020.”

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As always with Truthdig, this article is a damn good read,
and an excellent perspective of our shared Pax Americana reality.

Have you noticed how many articles I link from Truthdig.com?
It's because they do an excellent job of allowing truth to be authority,
rather than like FOX, where authority is manipulatively displayed as truth.

And like Commondreams, Alternet, DemocracyNow!, et al, the "Comments" section
is quite often as enlightening as the article’s themselves, sometimes even more so.