Has The Arctic Melt Passed
The Point Of No Return?
By Steve Connor

http://www.countercurrents.org/connor181208.htm

Scientists have found the first unequivocal evidence that the Arctic region is warming at a faster rate than the rest of the world at least a decade before it was predicted to happen



20 Ways To Save Mother Earth And Prevent Environmental Disaster
By Evo Morales

http://www.countercurrents.org/morales181208.htm

Humankind is capable of saving the Earth if we recover the principles of solidarity, complementarity and harmony with nature in contraposition to the reign of competition, profits and rampant consumption of natural resources



Four Truths About Climate Change We Can't Igonore
By Gwynn Dyer

http://www.countercurrents.org/dyer181208.htm

About 70 interviews, a dozen countries and 18 months later, I have reached four conclusions that I didn't even suspect when I began the process. The first is simply this: The scientists are really scared. Their observations over the past two or three years suggest that everything is happening a lot faster than their climate models predicted



The Most Important Number On Earth
By Bill McKibben

http://www.countercurrents.org/mckibben181208.htm

We have a number-350. The most important number on earth. If the Internet has a cosmic purpose, this could be it-to take that number and spread it everywhere on the planet, so that everyone, even if they knew little else about climate change, understood that it represented a kind of safety, a bulwark against the monsoon turning erratic, the sea rising over their fields, the mosquito spreading up their mountain



Peak Oil: At Last, A Date
By George Monbiot

http://www.countercurrents.org/monbiot181208.htm

For the first time, the International Energy Agency has produced a date for peak oil. International Energy Agency (IEA) in its World Energy Outlook report for 2007 says World oil resources are judged to be sufficient to meet the projected growth in demand to 2030 ; though it says nothing about what happens at that point, or whether they will continue to be sufficient after 2030



Counting Sea Gulls
By Mickey Z.

http://www.countercurrents.org/mickeyz181208.htm

A sky darkened for days by a single flock of birds?