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Die Chance der Krise

Lange Zeit waren wir so naiv und glaubten, das Öl ginge nie zu Ende und Benzin wäre billig für alle Zeit. Inzwischen wissen wir es besser: Der Liter Benzin kostet bald zwei Euro und mittelfristig gar drei Euro oder mehr.

https://sonnenseite.kjm4.de/ref.php?id=d8741682506ms73



Internationale Energieagentur täuscht weiter über die Erdölversorgungssicherheit

Die IEA hat heute einen in wichtigen Teilen realitätsfremden "World Energy Outlook" vorgestellt.

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The growth in human population and rising consumption have exceeded the planet's ability to support us, argues John Feeney. In this week's Green Room, he says it is time to ring the alarm bells and take radical action in order to avert unspeakable consequences.

https://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/7078857.stm


From Information Clearing House

Deborah Zabarenko, Reuters, writes: "Climate change could end globalization by 2040 as nations look inward to conserve scarce resources and conflicts flare when refugees flee rising seas and drought."

https://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/110607S.shtml



https://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=drought
https://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Deborah+Zabarenko

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https://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Lovelock

A total of 46 nations and 2.7 billion people are now at high risk of being overwhelmed by armed conflict and war because of climate change. A further 56 countries face political destabilisation, affecting another 1.2 billion individuals.

https://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2007/nov/04/climatechange.scienceofclimatechange


Informant: NHNE

https://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2007/nov/03/food.climatechange


Informant: Teresa Binstock



https://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=John+Vidal

Lee Jong-Heon, UPI Asia, writes that "Delegates from 136 countries, representing local governments, vowed to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and use renewable and clean energy sources to combat climate change, at the second World Congress of the United Cities and Local Governments. Some 2,000 mayors, councilors, and other officials of local autonomies from around the world attended the four-day Congress, in the South Korean resort island of Jeju, which concluded today."

https://www.truthout.org/issues_06/103107EC.shtml

Writing for AlterNet.org, Courtney Hull says, "When environmentalist author Bill McKibben spoke to a community of progressive philanthropists this past summer, he advised his audience, 'We do not have time to wait for change light bulb by light bulb, person by person, or even community by community. We need a movement, and we need it right now.' I then raised my hand, and asked him where he saw the most promising seeds of such a movement to lie, if at all. His first response, 'The youth movement.'"

https://www.truthout.org/issues_06/102907EA.shtml



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