A trio of Global Warming Articles
For your reading pleasure:
The New York times is running a series of articles about the arctic ice
thawing. From yesterday’s article:
The polar thaw is also starting to unlock other treasures: lucrative shipping routes, perhaps even the storied Northwest Passage; new cruise ship destinations; and important commercial fisheries. “It’s the positive side of global warming, if there is a positive side” said Ron Lemieux, the transportation minister of Manitoba….
A contrasting opinion by the venerable Mike Davis (who’s seminal work on Latinos in America this website is honoring), entitled
“Has the Age of Chaos Begun.”
The demon in me wants to say: Party and make merry. No need now to worry about Kyoto, recycling your aluminum cans, or using too much toilet paper, when, soon enough, we’ll be debating how many hunter-gathers can survive in the scorching deserts of New England or the tropical forests
of the Yukon.
One approach to rising sea waters: floating houses.
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