Noam Chomsky - "Death Knell for the Species"
Channel: wda015
Date: 16/12/2011

excerpt from "Peak Oil and a Changing Climate" ( http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UUmwy0... ) posted to U-tube by VideoNation ( http://www.youtube.com/user/videonation ) 2011-01-03
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"Death Knell for the Species" - is exactly what's been coming to my mind more and more often for a couple of years; e.g. after reading my printout of the (May 2010, draft of) NASA/Goddard 2010 GISS-analysis ( http://data.giss.nasa.gov/gistemp/pap... ) by J.Hansen &al. I marked it "R.I.P. humankind".

see also: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wdAFV1l5qPI  -- especially the "cost/benefit-analysis"

recommended reading: Clive Hamilton - "Requiem for a Species - Why We Resist the Truth about Climate Change" 2010, ISBN 978-1-84971-081-7 ( http://www.amazon.com/Requiem-Species... )

" For the first time in history THE PHYSICAL SURVIVAL OF THE HUMAN RACE DEPENDS ON A RADICAL CHANGE OF THE HUMAN HEART. However, a change in the human heart is possible only to the extent that drastic economic and social changes occur... " [emphasis(italics) in orig.]  --  Erich Fromm in " To Have or To Be ? - A new blueprint for mankind "  1976

" [W]e have to change our system - or perish. "  -- Jaque Fresco in "Zeitgeist: Moving Forward" (2011), http://wda.tradivarium.at/zeitg.htm

" Either we change, or we die. " -- Peter Joseph in http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-wR1nX2Rfis

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