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In Shyamalan's movie The Happening plants start killing people to stop humans from destroying the earth. Looks like nature is really fighting back. Seaweed on the beaches of France is producing "a very toxic gas" that can kill a person in a few minutes, and "smells like rotten eggs." That rotten egg smell is hydrogen sulphide. Some scientists "believe that a build-up of hydrogen sulphide in the atmosphere wiped out the dinosaurs 300 million years ago." And earlier this year a mysterious blob slunk along the Alaskan coastline eating birds . It turned out to be algae . And all of this is happening because of homosexuals . It has absolutely nothing to do with our own wasteful lifestyles and polluting culture.

From Newsweek "[Coke] looked the other way as some bottlers in Colombia and elsewhere intimidated and attacked union organizers , who "walk with a gravestone" on their backs. Pressured to audit Colombian plants in 2005, Coke helpfully noted a substandard number of fire extinguishers at one, but didn't address the charges. Coke often doesn't make its own Coke. It relies on a vast web of subcontractors, bottlers and distributors. Most have loose or no ties to the company, and are in countries where workplace laws are underdeveloped at best . In India, Coke drained water from local villages but gave them fertilizer in return—which contained lead and toxins , according to a BBC investigation. A leading British poisons expert warned of "devastating consequences" for the local population, but Coke called the fertilizer "absolutely safe." The concentrate for 70 percent of Coca-Cola's 1.5 billion drinks served each day originates in the tax haven ...

Bottled water is making me gay. The Colbert Report Mon - Thurs 11:30pm / 10:30c Nicholas Kristof www.colbertnation.com Colbert Report Full Episodes Political Humor Jeff Goldblum The ease of flushable toilets, disposable plastics, and chemical runoff from industrial agriculture and industrial production has produced severe consequences.

7 ways to be a responsible eater: 1. Participate in food production to the extent that you can. 2. Prepare your own food. 3. Learn the origins of the food you buy, and buy food that is produced closest to your home. 4. Whenever possible, deal directly with a local farmer, gardener, or orchardist. 5. Learn, in self-defense, as much as you can of the economy and technology of industrial food production. 6. Learn what is involved in the best farming and gardening. 7. Learn as much as you can, by direct observation and experience if possible, of the life histories of the food species. From The Pleasures of Eating by Wendell Berry. When we eat food produced industrially, we give multi-national corporations the go ahead to make our food in secret, without accountability. They have abused this lack of accountability to produce the cheapest food possible at the fastest rate. In doing so they have ruined the soil, polluted our drinking water, spoiled the air we breathe, and abused the h...

The Energy Department is giving Utah $108 million to help us clean up 32,000,000,000 pounds of radioactive sludge left over from mining. The mining company, Atlas Mineral Corporation, mined area area near Moab, but didn't clean up after itself. It left it to the American people to foot the bill. This is common mining practice. Companies need to start taking their waste into account. Many companies would not be as profitable as they seem if they took the cost of waste disposal into account. The free market does not always have a way to regulate negative externalities. This is a case where the government can step in to improve things. The government could have stepped in before they gave the Atlas Mineral Co. rights to mine, and put them under contract to foot the bill. But that still probably wouldn't have worked, since other mining companies under similar contracts simply go bankrupt. The CEOs take off with the leftover millions, and leave the miners and their community ba...

People around the world turned off the lights for an hour to save the earth. Vegas Off from Big Picture - The result? A trendy, self-congratulatory act with no lasting impact. We need to do more than turn off the lights. We need to change an entire culture based on exploitation to one based on nurture.

Do you believe in global warming? What a stupid question. And what a stupid foundation for environmental debate. Who cares about ice caps? I've never been there, so I won't miss them. And if the climate changes, I'll put on a sweater or a swimsuit, or both. But what really bothers me is that it takes up the whole conversation. We also need to be talking about: soil erosion and toxification, water contamination and depletion, air pollution, deforestation, species extinction, homogenization or decimation of indigenous cultures. We're cutting the foundation away from under our feet. Food comes from the ground. If we ruin the ground, (which our current industrial agriculture does), we run out of food and die. Such societal collapses have happened before, on a smaller scale. And you don't want to be there when the food runs out, because people start eating eachother . Fish populations have collapsed recently, and with them the fishermen's livelihood, one more...

Huntsman said : We hold dear the things that give us a sense of humanity - our land, our air and our water - and recognize the role they play in our peace of mind and spirit, as well as our economy. If we are going to take air quality seriously, which we must for the sake of the next generation, we must be bold; we must be visionary. Our aspirations should be nothing short of extraordinary. And there are two goals that we should immediately set our sights on. Utah Air Quality First, just as Wall Street is known for finance and Silicone Valley for technology, by 2012, I believe Utah can become the premier destination in America for renewable energy ! And don't tell me it can't be done! In just this past year alone, we have witnessed in Utah the opening of a solar farm, a hydroelectric plant, a wind farm and a geothermal plant . To support this energy development, innovation at our higher education campuses is running at an all-time high, like technologies that will ensure the ...