Surviving Capitalism (Not) : Obama administration announces massive coal mining expansion

We’ve lived so long under the spell of hierarchy—from god-kings to feudal lords to party bosses—that only recently have we awakened to see not only that “regular” citizens have the capacity for self-governance, but that without their engagement our huge global crises cannot be addressed. The changes needed for human society simply to survive, let alone thrive, are so profound that the only way we will move toward them is if we ourselves, regular citizens, feel meaningful ownership of solutions through direct engagement. Our problems are too big, interrelated, and pervasive to yield to directives from on high.
—Frances Moore Lappé, excerpt from Time for Progressives to Grow Up

Friday, April 15, 2011

Obama administration announces massive coal mining expansion

Click here to access article by Glenn Hurowitz from Grist. (Sorry about the late posting of this article which is dated three weeks ago. However, in my defense it needs to be recognized that mainstream media keeps news like this out of the public eye as much as possible.)

Interior Secretary Ken Salazar announced yesterday an enormous expansion in coal mining that threatens to increase U.S. climate pollution by an amount equivalent to more than half of what the United States currently emits in a year.