Global warming, climate change, activism
Posted in Activism, Climate Change Consequences, Food, High Horse, Social Justice on Jul 6th, 2009
In advance of the G8 Summit in Italy, Oxfam has released a new paper suggesting that hunger will become the defining issue of this century, and that climate change is to blame. The report, called Suffering the Science: Climate Change, People, and Poverty (PDF) argues that hundreds of millions of farmers are now struggling to [...]
Posted in Climate Change Science, Food, High Horse, Social Justice on Jan 12th, 2009
In the coming decades, unchecked climate change will stress crops and livestock alike — especially in the world’s poorest regions — and that is expected to cause serious food shortages for half the world’s population, according to US researchers writing in the peer-reviewed journal Science. But while the world’s poor will suffer the most, Europe [...]
Posted in Ain't Easy Being Green, High Horse, Social Justice on Jan 6th, 2009
It’s funny. I learned more about ethics and social justice in a biology class than any dozen religious sermons that I can remember. Most people are surprised to learn — as I did during an undergraduate lecture — that we can take dramatic steps towards feeding the world’s poor, and it has little to do [...]