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Raydawg1234 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Sep-09-05 01:47 AM
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Hurricane Katrina brings a foretaste of environmental disasters to come
The Bush Administration's denial of global warming is catching up with them. The unusually warm waters in the gulf caused Katrina to turn into a cat 5. This article by By Bill McKibben from Grist magazine will open your eyes to disasters that might happen if Bush's policies are aloud to continue.....

If the images of skyscrapers collapsed in heaps of ash were the end of one story -- the U.S. safe on its isolated continent from the turmoil of the world -- then the picture of the sodden Superdome with its peeling roof marks the beginning of the next story, the one that will dominate our politics in the coming decades: America befuddled about how to cope with a planet suddenly turned unstable and unpredictable..................

http://www.grist.org/comments/soapbox/2005/09/07/mckibben/index.html


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silverweb Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Sep-09-05 02:16 AM
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1. Frightening.
Powerfully stated with no allowance for neocon equivocation.
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