<html><head><style type="text/css"><!-- DIV {margin:0px;} --></style></head><body><div style="font-family:times new roman,new york,times,serif;font-size:12pt">Because we all know that droughts, flooding, fires, and other extreme weather events never happened before we started driving SUVs.<br><br>I do support initiatives designed to increase our preparedness for such events, given that they will happen no matter what.<br><br>Paul<br><div><br></div><div style="font-family:times new roman, new york, times, serif;font-size:12pt"><br><div style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10pt"><font face="Tahoma" size="2"><hr size="1"><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">From:</span></b> Ted Moffett <starbliss@gmail.com><br><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">To:</span></b> Moscow Vision 2020 <vision2020@moscow.com><br><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Sent:</span></b> Thu, June 30, 2011 9:48:14 AM<br><b><span style="font-weight:
bold;">Subject:</span></b> [Vision2020] "Democracy Now" Interview: Parenti's "Tropic of Chaos:" Global Warming & Global Warfare<br></font><br>
Christian Parenti's book "Tropic of Chaos" is discussed in todays<br>interview on Amy Goodman's "Democracy Now," regarding global warming<br>and global warfare, at website below.<br><br>One important point mentioned is that as the GOP has denied that<br>global warming is a significant threat indicating it be substantially<br>addressed, the Pentagon has taken global warming very seriously:<br><br><span><a target="_blank" href="http://www.democracynow.org/seo/2011/6/30/climate_chaos_christian_parentis_new_book">http://www.democracynow.org/seo/2011/6/30/climate_chaos_christian_parentis_new_book</a></span><br><br>>From website above:<br><br>Extreme weather from Texas to Somalia may indicate that a new era of<br>climate war is upon us. Just this month, massive floods have shut down<br>two nuclear power facilities in Nebraska. In New Mexico, the nation’s<br>top nuclear weapons lab in Los Alamos is being threatened by an<br>uncontrolled wildfire.
Meanwhile, the United Nations warns the Horn of<br>Africa is facing its worst drought in 60 years, affecting more than 10<br>million in Djibouti, Ethiopia, Kenya, Somalia and Uganda. We speak<br>with award-winning journalist Christian Parenti who argues in his new<br>book that global warming is leading to social and environmental<br>catastrophe. "The weather associated with climate change, extreme<br>weather such as the drought, punctuated by flooding in East Africa,<br>punctuated by flooding in East Africa, is adding to this. Climate<br>change very often doesn’t just look bad weather, it looks like ethnic<br>violence or religious violence or banditry or civil war,” says<br>Parenti.<br>-------------------------------------------<br>Vision2020 Post: Ted Moffett<br><br>=======================================================<br> List services made available by First Step Internet, <br> serving the communities of the Palouse since 1994.
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