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CHANGE OR BURN The Australian Experience
Ecoshock Show 080718Speech by top climate/economic adviser to new Australian government, Prof. Ross Garnaut. His report is an update of the famous Stern Report in the UK - with even better accounting for China and all Asia. Professor Garnaut was the Australian Ambassador to China, and knows places like Indonesia well. So his view is from a developed country, but knowing the huge growth and challenges happening in Asia - which may well tip the climate of the world.I think Garnaut's report ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
FIRESTORM - Carbon RisingEcoshock Show 080711We begin with a first hand report from climate front-line - the California fires, with Maria Gilardin. Maria is the host of the TUC radio program, originating from San Francisco. This time she is sending out last emails, from her straw bail house, surrounded by four major fires in Mendicino County, California.Although Maria has produced some excellent programs on climate change, including interviews with scientists like James Hansen of NASA, perhaps she never expected ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
A WARNING FROM THE PASTThis week's Radio Ecoshock broadcast is about past greenhouse worlds, quick climate shifts, and mass extinctions caused by changes to the atmosphere.Dr. Andrew Glikson studies comet/asteroid impacts, volcanoes, and past climates. He's been doing it for 40 years.While studying the oldest record of life on Earth, in the Australian outback, Glikson found a relationship between comet or asteroid impacts and the generation of living things. We do not yet know whether life forms (such as bacte ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
HANSEN: CLIMATE CRIMINALSNASA scientist James Hansen shakes up Capitol Hill (and the media) with explosive testimony to the Select Committee on Energy Independence and Climate Change. For one thing, he thinks oil industry executives who purposely (and secretly) fund groups to confuse the public about climate science – should be charged with crimes against humanity. Here are the links to supplement this week’s Radio Ecoshock show: James Hansen Testimony to Select Committee (June 23, 2008) as a .pdf fil ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
COLLAPSE & CLIMATE CRISISDmitry Orlov interview. Author of Reinventing Collapse: The Soviet Example and American Prospects." Orlov compares end of Soviet & American empires.His advice for Presidential candidates, as oil era ends is priceless. Hear about "The Collapse Party" platform....We run a clip from the Minneapolis National Conference on Media Reform (Professor Lawrence Lessig of Stanford on how media sows doubt on global warming, which doesn't exist in climate science...) Then I reference two hours of ke ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Re Send of Building Sanity, Passivhaus WorkshopHi folks!Sorry, but last week's podcast send was incomplete. You didn't get the full show. So here is a re-send - the workshop on how to save 90% on building energy costs (and greenhouse gases) is too important to miss.That was the Radio Ecoshock show for June 13th, 2008.Won't happen again.Alex.Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
BUILDING SANITY - PASSIVHAUS WORKSHOPA follow up to last week's program "Building Madness - Constructing Climate Change"This week: a real solution to making our buildings way more efficient. Called "Passivhaus" in Germany, the technique really means much more than "house" - but all buildings.This week we present an exclusive one hour workshop on super-low energy houses, office & municipal buildings with Dr. Guido Wimmers. His company web site at eqcanada.comGuido Wimmers is from Austria, where he studied and designed super ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
BUILDING MADNESS Constructing Climate ChangeQUICK GUIDE AND LINKS - RADIO ECOSHOCK PROGRAM June 6, 2008 Voices on this program: ANTHONY PERLE Simon Fraser University Urban Studies Program, Co-author of "Transport Revolution" Download that book launch speech Here. Download 20 minute presentation at "Our Transportation Future" 080522 Here. RICHARD REGISTER Clip from "A Sustainable World" on KCSB radio, in Santa Barbara. Download full interview Here. LARRY FRANK J. Armand Bombardier Chairholder in Sustainable ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
SAFE CLIMATE OR ENDLESS WAR?Those are the choices.CONNECTIONS FOR THIS WEEK'S RADIO ECOSHOCK SHOWWeek of May 30th, 2008Guest: Michael T. Klare (new book "Rising Powers, Shrinking World")Listen to the Ecoshock Klare interview here.(http://www.ecoshock.org/downloads/nuclear/ES_Klare_RisingPowers_LoFi.mp3)Read his blog at http://www.tomdispatch.comSpace For Peace activist Bruce GagnonListen to the Gagnon interview separately here.www.ecoshock.org/downloads/nuclear/ES_Gagnon_080521_LoFi.mp3 His web site is http://space4pe ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
TOO HOT TO HANDLE!Radio Ecoshock Show script 080523 "TOO HOT TO HANDLE"[quick opening clip from George Michael "Time to Pray"]Yes, the wounded skies above, say it's much too late.Pop back a few anti-depressants. This is Radio Ecoshock, I'm Alex SmithDo we have still have time? Pop star George Michael asked the millions watching the finale of American Idol 2008. He sang of the time of guilty men, in front of a giant screen image of a red and molten world.That was almost as close as this TV parade of geezer ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Notice to Subscribers: change in your podcastHiThis is Alex Smith, your host on Radio Ecoshock. I havean important message for my beloved podcast subscribers.You may have noticed that the most recent program for May 16th, "Crisis in Confidence" arrived in the "Lo-Fi" format. That is more compressed - a much smaller file at 14 megabytes (instead of 56). It arrives on your computer faster, and takes up less space for those who collect the programs on their hard drives.By popular demand,I have switched this podcast to the smaller Lo-F ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
CRISIS OF CONFIDENCEIs it just me... or is the world falling apart?The Radio Ecoshock Show 080516Worried? Need a hole to hide in?All through Western history, the human herd has reached panic points. Civilization was expected to end. And sometimes it did.In this program, we'll take the bullet train through global defrosting, climate adaptation, rogue capitalism, economic crash, selling out, capital flight, and the food crisis.You will hear samples from a conference call with world food expertLester Brown, an ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
IF YOU LOVE THIS PLANETHelen Caldicott's new broadcast/podcast program #1.Hands up everyone who wants to hear about nuke reactor safety.....Nobody?Perfect. That's just the way the nuclear industry wants it - as they plan a new "renaissance" of reactor construction as a "solution" to climate change. Really, the same big corporations want the government to back and insure their risky plans to rake in billions of bucks.George Bush loves the plan. So does the military. Republican candidate John McCain just told n ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Radio For Troubled TimesA new survey by worldpublicopinion.org shows that the majority of people in the world think oil is running out. They want their governments to find new energy supplies. Americans agree we have passed Peak Oil - but they are the only public to feel their government is operating on the wrong assumptions.One big bad assumption: biofuels are the way to energy independence. We investigate news reports from all over the world, connecting biofuels to the new world food crisis. Even U.S. sources s ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
HIGHWAY TO HELL: How Smog KillsPolluted cities kills hundreds of thousands. Under-reported plague from vehicle emissions. 2 interviews.We are honored to have as a guest on this weeks' show: Dr. Joel Schwartz, Harvard's top expert on air pollution. I discuss Dr. Schwartz' testimony to Congress in late 2007. His presentation is still available on the Net, as a .pdf file. It is on Carbon Soot and Global Warming.Schwartz presents one of the two most scary maps I have ever seen. (Number one was the map showing the new w ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
ADDICTED TO OILEven President George Bush admits we are addicted to oil. But what does that really mean?THE PSYCHOLOGY OF ADDICTIONDr. Bruce Alexander, a professor emeritus at Simon Fraser University in Canada, is a pioneer researching addiction. His ideas are so unconventional, he won the Stirling Prize for controversy. Bruce Alexander is currently writing a book titled "The Globalization of Addiction: A Study in the Poverty of the Spirit." - coming out this summer."Addiction is a democratic disease, ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
SOLAR TO SAVE USCalif. scientist Nate Lewis says CO2 is rising rapidly - and why only Solar can power the Earth.This includes Repodcast clip from ABC National's "In Conversation" with Robyn Williams. Robyn finds Nate frustrated with the gush of greenhouse gases in the last few years. We are going the wrong way, while conferences conference, politicians talk, and consumers take teeny tiny green steps.That leads to disaster, but scientist Lewis quickly knocks out the nuclear option. By his calculation, we wo ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Climate: Who If Not Us?In this show: a new speech by Thomas Homer-Dixon, author of "Ingenuity Gap" and "Updside of Down" Toronto 080320.Homer-Dixon says a carbon surge threatens the world, breaking IPCC predictions. He outlines the latest science, and makes an odd suggestion of how the Internet might help save us.This is one of the most powerful speeches I have heard this year. It was recorded by John-Paul Warren of Toronto - an example of the kind of recording and exchange that is pushing exchange of new climat ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
PEAK OIL = TRANSPORTATION REVOLUTIONThis week's program begins with a quick review of planet-shaking news.Then, we go to the book launch of "Transportation Revolutions: Moving People and Freight Without Oil"The authors are Richard Gilbert & Anthony Perl. I recorded that on March 18th, in Vancouver, Canada.You get the speech by Richard Gilbert, plus some of the Q and A.Both the talk, and the book, are loaded with real facts and figures on future transpo, and how to get there, sustainably. Finally, some answers. Are you ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Wall Street & the Climate CrashThis week we dig into the Wall Street Mess. Are we headed into the next Great Depression? We'll talk to a Finance Campaigner at the Rainforest Action Network, to see how they fought some big bankers, and won. That interview with Matt Leonard of RAN is only available in the audio program.But first, Wall Street needs to dig themselves out with a new bubble scam. Why not use our concern about climate change. If a new American Administration takes on carbon emissions, they may hand out bi ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Dirty Coal, Dirty Politics, Wasted WorldBefore I launch into the script for this week's Radio Ecoshock show, I want to get the key information into your hands. Here is new science, just published in the March 7th, Geophysical Letters scientific journal, explained by Ken Caldeira, senior scientist of the Carnegie Institute. Apparently, every bit of CO2 we emit eventually warms the atmosphere for thousands of years. Read on.KEY QUOTES FROM AN INTERVIEW WITH KEN CALDEIRA, Senior Scientist, Carnegie Institute, from the Mebourne 3C ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Mark Jaccard: 20 Years of Climate FailureWhy have all the political climate plans failed so badly? Targets are set, with big announcements, and yet greenhouse gas emissions just keep going up, and up.Canada's Professor Mark Jaccard has developed scientific models, to study how governments cope with the climate challenge. His results are solid, and controversial.Just knowing about the climate threat is obviously not enough. As consumers, we know, but just keep polluting. Some politicians mean well, but we can't seem to change o ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Our Dying Oceans - New ScienceLatest awful science on climate's impact: dead zones, acidification, extinctions. Forget Obamamania and gowns on the red carpet - oh, by the way, the oceans are dying.This show begins with clips from the 1973 classic "Soylent Green". The usual warnings apply: people with depression, cynicism, skepticism, or despair listen at their own risk.3 original interviews by Alex Smith, of top scientists, with news from the Boston meeting of the American Academy for the Advancement of Science. Then ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
The Drying of the West & More (Ecoshock 080222)This is Radio Ecoshock. I'm your host, Alex Smith.Our audio show begins with a 21 minute interview with Robert Kunzig, author of "The Drying of the West" in the February issue of National Geographic. A great science writer and researcher, Robert Kunzig has discovered a wealth of science showing the American South West is entering into a period of prolonged drought.The whole Colorado River system, and the massive population who depend upon it (from Denver to Los Angeles) are imperiled. The ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
NOT SO COOL FARMINGThe report is called "Cool Farming: Climate impacts of agriculture and mitigation potential" It's from Greenpeace International.We have with us one of the authors, Dr. Pete Smith from the School of Biological Sciences, University of Aberdeen. Dr. Smith was also a lead author, reporting for last year's climate series, from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.The total amounts of greenhouse gases coming from human agriculture are surprising to me. Your report finds that farming c ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
End of Age of Oil - Kunstler Part 2How will we live as oil declines - and the price keeps going up?In our previous program, we ran the first hour of a speech by James Howard Kunstler, given as the first visiting scholar to the Urban Studies Program at Simon Fraser University, in Canada.Today, we present the conclusion of the speech followed by a moving question and answer period, uncut. The audience reacts with admiration, animosity, and tough questions for author Kunstler.Hear what your neighbors think, their worries, sugge ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
End of the Age of Oil - 1James Howard Kunstler lecture as 1st visiting scholar to Simon Fraser Urban Studies 080124From the Long Emergency to new measures after Peak Oil. The best speech of the year so far.Why the housing boom will not return, and what that means to the American economy. The disaster of investing in suburbia, as oil becomes more and more expensive, and dangerous to get.How Nationalization of most of the oil of the world (the major companies like Shell and Exxon only deliver about 5% now, Kunstler ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Capitalist Despair & the Climate Crisis[Show script][to hear the program, click the title above][sci-fi - but all too true clip from trailer for new game]Our opening clip comes not from a documentary of our times, but from a trailer for a new video game called "Frontlines, Fuel of War." I suppose gamers really know the game is up. But, even our collapse, can be made into a profitable fantasy, for the screen.I'm Alex Smith, and this is Radio Ecoshock.You know, life has always been a battle between routine and interruptions. I sa ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
TAR SANDS CRIMESThis is writer, activist and hitchhiker MacDonald Stainsby. He is coordinator of a website called oilsandstruth.org.The Tar Sands megaprojects in Northern Alberta, Canada are so horrible, so insane, I don't really want to talk about it. In fact, most Canadians - and Americans, prefer not to think about this issue at all.It is the world's largest strip mining operation. It is Canada's largest single source of greenhouse gas emissions. The Tar Sands are melting down gluey rock to feed Ame ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Bali Climate Conference FailsAs the poles melted, the world governments assembled at the tropical paradise of Bali, to confront the climate crisis.With Canada running interference (threatening to kill the conference) - the U.S. APPEARED to give in - but actually gave up nothing. As we hear from the rabid supporters of the Bush Administration, the American Enterprise Institute. No firm targets were set - despite the willingness of Europe and all the rest of the developing world to act now. A huge opportunity missed.T ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Canadian Wild Fire Carbon - Tom GowerIn the last few years, as the North heats up, wild fires have been burning, unreported and unopposed, across the top of the world, in both Canada and Siberia.The latest climate models used by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change does NOT include this growing source of carbon.Dr. Tom Gower is from the University of Wisconsin/Madison. In this exclusive interview with Radio Ecoshock, Dr. Gower explains the vast boreal forest of Canada is no longer a carbon sink. It is losing more ca ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
TOP UK SCIENTIST'S BLUNT CLIMATE WARNINGSir David King warns we are headed toward a hot-state planet, not seen since 55 million years ago (when life huddled on Antarctica).The only way out, he says, is a binding international agreement by 2009. Even so, we only have a window of 5 years to act, to cut carbon drastically. Otherwise, the global climate may shift by 5 degrees C. ( 9 degrees Fahrenheit) or more. Keep in mind, that's the just the global average. The arctic may go up 14 degrees or more.We are already experiencing ma ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
SEYMOUR HERSH: US INTENTIONS FOR IRANAs the Iraq war stumbles into bloody nowhere, who - just what kind of madmen - could ramp up for yet another war, this time against Iran?Seasoned journalist Seymour Hersh attempts to answer this question, in the Amnesty International 2007 Lecture, delivered in Dublin, Ireland on October 24th of this year. It is one of the most compelling speeches I've heard in months.For those who've been away in outer space: Seymour Hersh has been reporting for 40 years. He exposed the 1968 massacre of V ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Derrick Jensen's End GameWhat ever label humans give their system - Capitalism, Socialism, any-ism - the name of the game is consume the planet as fast as we can.That's what deep green author and activist Derrick Jensen tells me in this first Ecoshock interview with the radical philosopher. The problem? Call it civilization.The occasion for our call is an impending visit to Vancouver and Victoria, for speeches about his new book. Hear Derrick October 19th at the Ukrainian Hall in Vancouver (8 pm), October 20th a ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
ECO-SOCIALISM WITH JOEL KOVELDoes capitalism have to fall - to save the Earth?Dr. Joel Kovel thinks so. He's the influential lefty academic who wrote "Enemy of Nature." The subtitle was "The End of Capitalism, or the End of the World."Kovel was in Vancouver to promote his new book on Zionism, as well as an upcoming new edition of "Enemy of Nature." He's also promising a DVD criticizing Al Gore as a Capitalism substitute for real action to save the planet.Al Gore? Kovel explains that Gore, and the Kyoto Protocol, ai ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
PLANKTOS II: THE INTERVENTION[To hear the whole show, including the 3 interviews, click the title above in Blogger, or go to http://www.ecoshock.net/eshock/ES_070914_Show.mp3][As prepared before air. Items in [square brackets] were cut due to time limits.]ALEX SMITH:Today we're going to continue our investigation of Planktos Corp. This company plans to farm ocean algae, stimulating them with iron dust, to capture carbon dioxide from the air. If successful, the company would sell carbon offset credits to polluting co ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
PLANKTOS: OFFSETS REAL & IMAGINED[In Blogger, to hear the show, click the title above.]When we purchase carbon offsets, or companies claim to be "carbon neutral" - are we kidding ourselves?In the first of a two-part radio series, we look at one of the best-known "green" carbon offset companies, Planktos Corp. I spend the whole show interviewing the CEO, Russell George.You can always learn a lot about the workings of the ocean, from Russ George. He tells us plankton, the very basis of the food chain, is greatly reduced si ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
BUSH'S BIOFUEL SCAM(To hear the interview with F. William Engdahl in Blogger, click title above)When President Bush says he's taking action for energy independence, and to curb carbon, you know he's going to pick the wrong way to the wrong target.Sure enough, that's what Bush announced in his last State of the Union Address, and Congress has moved on it since: the "20/10" program for biofuels in America. The taxpayers are doling out huge sums to achieve the stated goal of providing 20% of all U.S. transporta ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Escape from Suburbia - Director interviewTo hear the audio interview with Gregory Greene, Director of "Escape from Suburbia" click the title above.This 27 minute interview was selected for replay on the Indymedia show of KPFK Los Angeles, on the Pacifica Network, after it's original broadcast on CFRO FM radio in Vancouver, and other college and community stations.Gregory Greene became known for his underground hit DVD "End of Suburbia" - which went over a million dollars in sales. The premise of the first film essentially followe ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
DU and 911 Truth??[As broadcast - to hear the audio click the title above]This is Alex Smith, asking, why are so many in the 911 Truth movement so hostile to the reality of climate change? On June 22nd, 2007 the traveling road show of 911 speakers arrived in Vancouver, Canada.As an environmentalist, and a radio journalist, I went to the Sunday afternoon presentations. These promised to explain the dangers of depleted uranium, and the conspiracy of wars to get oil. My intention was to broadcast the speech b ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Alexander Cockburn - Climate DenierWhen some right wing pseudo fascist nut is convicted, or discovered in the bedroom of a little boy, something inside me accepts. I want to cheer, but I don't, because it shows we are all kind of crazy, in some way. But at least all their hurtful rants become sidelined, in the great debates of the day. Thank God, if there is one, we don't have to listen to Jerry Falwell anymore.When an icon of the Left falls - someone who has warned and enlightened us, it is much harder. That's what make ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
SMALLER FOOTPRINT - AND FEWER FEET!Who cares if we all reduce our carbon footprint - if there are billions more of us. It still adds up to a greenhouse gas disaster.For Dr. John Guillebaud, a UK population expert - controlling our numbers is a biological necessity - and one key factor in averting the worst of climate change.Since his early days growing up in Africa, this medical doctor has devoted himself to family planning. Now he, and a team at Optimum Population, have calculated just how many air miles, or driving miles ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
GLENN BECK CNN's Climate Quislingto hear the broacast, click the title above.[Opening clips: Glenn Beck: "And I read this one part, about global warming, about how they got, what was the first they did, to get people to exterminate the Jews. Now, I'm not saying that anybody's going to - Al Gore's not going to be rounding up Jews and exterminating them. It is the same tactic, however."Narrator: "Vidkun Quisling was the Norwegian Traitor, the self-styled Fuehrer for Hitler during World War Two..."Strident CNN woman host: "O ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
CANADA'S CLIMATE PLAN GOES BLACK[This is a part script for the audio broadcast/podcast. To hear the real thing, click the title above]What kind of greenhouse gas reduction begins by violating an international climate treaty, and then promising to emit even more carbon dioxide? That plan is called "Turning the Corner" - announced April 27th, by Canadian Environment Minister John Baird, of the Conservative Party. Baird says Canadians are dumping 35% more greenhouse gases now, than in 1990. He blames all that not on Canad ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
MASS KILL OF SEA LIONS AT BC FISH FARMSA storm of public concern erupted after 50 dead Sea Lions were hauled up with nets in a single British Columbian salmon farm. Now, it turns out a wide range of marine mammals, including endangered species, are routinely shot or drowned by the Canadian fish farming industry. It's just another black eye for fish farms, which are already accused of killing off wild stocks and polluting the sea.Let's investigate with the Living Oceans Society in Canada.[for Audio Interview with Catherine Stew ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
CLIMATE SCAMS - 7 Roads to Hell on EarthCLIMATE SCAMS: 7 ROADS TO HELL ON EARTH[opening clips]Global Warming - It's the Sun! Cosmic Rays! the U.S. Military - anybody but us, the common car-driving, energy sucking, Western-style humanoid.Welcome tothe Radio Ecoshock guide to climate change scams- the wrong-headed ideas, and pork-barrel wrong turns, that stall, stall, stall, real solutions to rapid climate change.Someone once said there are as many ideas, and excuses, as there are humans. We wouldn't want it any other way. But ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
GOVERNMENTS HIDE IPCC FACTSWelcome to Radio Ecoshock[click title above to hear audio, 20 minutes, with clips]First, I want to hit a couple of the highlights from last week's new report from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, the IPCC. This is the Second Working Group, looking at the impacts we are already feeling from global warming, and predicting who gets hurt in the future. That turns out to be up to 30 percent of all species going extinct, including coral reefs, and billions of humans running out of ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
BEST NEW CLIMATE MUSIC - 6 SONGSHi there, this is Alex Smith from Radio Ecoshock. OK, my last podcast was the most depressing ever - the latest news on new coal fired power plants all over the world - set to Chopin's funeral march. I suppose I was just trying use music, art, to convey the true horror of our situation - and not just for us, but for all the animals and plants, now that the carbon monster is out of the ground.But art should heal as well as hurt. So this time round, I've gathered up the six best new songs a ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
COAL DIRGE[Click the title above to hear the Coal Dirge - 8 minutes long]A new article in the Christian Science Monitor details how the world is building a whole new wave of dirty coal power plants - sure to tip the climate beyond recognition.Somehow the facts don't seem enough - so I set this piece with the appropriate music - Chopin's famous funeral march. This IS what will kill off civilization and the species we know and love - unless investors, governments, and power companies wake up from the ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | |
