Fossil fuels made two centuries of industrial civilization possible. But their continued use is now causing irreversible climate destabilization, threatening the death of tens or hundreds of millions. Since consuming only sixty percent of the already mapped and easily available deposits of coal, oil and gas around the world is an absolute gurantee of climate catastrophe, governments should have been sitting down at Copenhagen to determine which forty, fifty or sixty percent of those available reserves will be left in the ground, and to ban prospecting for more. All the rest, Monbiot points out, was hypocritical nonsense.
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US presidents range from very bad to less bad, but none were “good” for Black people – including the first Black one.
A Leni Riefenstahl film Written by Dr. Goebbels Produced by the DNC— Set in summer in Milwaukee: “Return of the $electable Dead.” A
Lerone Bennett’s de-colonized perspective was ultimately drowned out by the same capitalist forces that kept him alive in the first place.
Black studies is a conceptual movement that is trying to catch up to it’s more sensual and less formal cousin, black music.
Spending time in worlds of the past opens a window on how things changed, or stubbornly remained unchanged.
