"DOOMSDAY CLOCK" HAND TO BE MOVED, REFLECTING WORSENING NUCLEAR, CLIMATE THREATS TO WORLD

Nearly 700 Physicists sign petition to alter nuke rules; not succeeding

*Asteroid will probably hit earth within 100 years and we are completely unprepared

Republican congressmen essentially says Bush's empirical overreach is destabalizing..everything

Example of the nuke power available in the world. Scared?

Origin of war

Many people would like a disease to remove half (or more) of the population. The rich want to kill the poor

Examples of people/groups that believe the way to handle the population problem is to kill many people

How close were we to not being alive today? One example: Our savior

Scary info on uranium weapons

**Bush says WW3 has begun

Here it comes!


Essay written by Ed Mays...we are all going to die, but there is something we can do: At the prestigious April 6th Kistler Book Award Ceremony, organized by Seattle's Foundation for the Future, David Wasdell (Director of the Meridian Programme) was introduced as the world's leading authority on the feedback dynamics of climate change. This program is based on the opening keynote presentation he gave the next morning, to the 'Crossroads for Planet Earth' workshop attended by a group of distinguished scholars and scientists also convened by the Foundation for the Future.

Feedback dynamics concern previously little understood climate mechanisms triggered by global warming which feed back upon themselves accelerating the process and eventually causing runaway global warming. David Wasdell explains that there are 6 categories of feedback mechanisms. Almost all earth's systems known to effect climate change are now in a state of positive feedback. Because we have squandered the last 20 years, we have already passed the point whereby global climate change can be avoided. What this new information means is: If we don't take drastic action to save the planet immediately we will soon reach a "tipping point" whereby nothing can stop runaway global warming and there will ensue a mass extinction event the likes of which has only happened 5 times in Earth's history. The only thing likely to survive will be moss and we are going to suffer greatly on the way out. For those who say: "That's too depressing to think about", I say: Just think how depressed you're going to be when it's too late to do anything about it.

Although it's too late to stop climate change, it can be mitigated until it eventually turns around and there is still time to stop absolute catastrophe, but not much. To those who say: "Sounds like science fiction to me, I didn't see this on my TV so it must not be true", I say, you will, but I wouldn't expect anyone reading this to actually believe their corporate TV would tell them anything important so enough said. However, Time just did a whole issue on this subject last month- "Be worried. Be very worried."

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To those who say: "This corporate regime is so corrupt there's not a chance that we will be able to turn things around in time so we might as well accept that we've had it", I say that it is only inevitable that there will be a massive last ditch effort to save the planet at some point or other. The question is: Will it be too little too late and what will Halliburton and Exxon's cut be? But seriously, you would be surprised what can happen when you realize that your back is against the wall. One need only remember the Roosevelt era. The President halted auto production by decree, ordered massive armaments production, instituted universal rationing, and mobilized the entire country. So you think this crisis is less serious than the bombing of Pearl Harbor? Check out the attack on New Orleans. That was just the first hit. Hurricane seasons are going to get progressively more catastrophic from here on out. What's worse, there is a whole arsenal of other weapons aimed at us. Or more accurately- that we are aiming at ourselves.

First we need to educate ourselves, then we need to wise up our political leaders, if they can't be wised up, then we need to replace them fast. As David Wasdell points out, every day that we delay increases the monumental task at hand. I spoke to Sen. Maria Cantwell last week. I thanked her for her work on the environment and asked her if she had heard about the feedback crisis. She said she hadn't. That's what I'm talking about.

I think this is the most important subject I've ever covered. For that reason I encourage everyone to tape this show and pass it around to every politician you know. In fact, every person you know. I'm making DVDs. I'll give them to you at cost: $5 (includes postage). If you want a disc of the supporting text presentation: "Facing Bifurcation Crossroads in Context", you can have that too. I'm sure Mr. Wasdell won't mind, you can also find it on his website and the entire interactive report: "The Feedback Crisis in Climate Change." Of course, if you feel generous and want to give the normal price (donation) $20 to support Pirate TV you are certainly welcome. As always, I'm interested in your "feedback" too. -Ed

See also

Pirate Television
Challenging the Corporate Media Blockade
edmays@speakeasy.net

NASA building an anti-matter spaceship (remember the public, yet buried, information that NASA is now owned by the pentagon...so will they use this anti-matter to propel us into the future and universe, or use it as a weapon to future our descent into self-annihilation?)

Randi Rhodes on the Nuclear Test about to be done in Nevada

*Nuclear Photographs/Chernobyl (This will happen all over the world soon if the masses don't collectively speak up)