Humans are doomed, and we'll be gone by 2050, says scientist Guy McPherson. Rapidly escalating climate change--triggered by our hydrocarbons--will destroy our habitat very soon. And no captain of industry or civic leader would risk damaging his career or stock portfolio to save the species.
This week, McPherson focuses on how serious the situation already is--and how mired in denial are all the leaders and institutions of the "civilization" that caused the calamity
Next week: What to do?
This weeks audio is from an interview in Winnipeg, Canada, February 7, 2014. Audio courtesy of the producer, Michael Welch, of Global Research News Hour on CKUW-FM, Winnipeg. Lightly edited and condensed by K.D. Welchs uncut program is here: http://www.radio4all.net/index.php/program/74809 .
Guy McPherson is Professor Emeritus of Natural Resources and Ecology & Evolutionary Biology at the University of Arizona. His Web site is http://www.guymcpherson.com/ .
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Introduction by KD.
Previously broadcast, as NWN #322, in May 2014. Files downloaded from the links, below, may be identified as #322.
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