Environment

Great news! The "greatest threat to future generations of the world" has apparently been solved. World leaders Saturday adopted an historic international climate accord in Paris, the first-ever agreement to commit almost every country to fight climate change. However, as we knew all along and just got confirmation, the 31-page pact does not have binding language or a mechanism to force countries to live up to the promises to cut greenhouse gases emissions or provide money for developing and poor nations to cope with the effects of global warming.

Will the Global Warming talks in Paris produce fruit? Yes, if they realize that fruit, veggies, and grain are more important to curb global warming, to ensure better health for us, and not least of all- to hopefully open the doors of the cruel factory farms and let the animals out to live and breathe as we do.

My new, deeply provocative OEN piece is a passionate rebuttal of a Common Dreams article whose spin doctoring angered and disturbed me. How? By citing a "world-changing choice" on climate between Sanders and Clinton but then sweeping away a huge body of expert evidence favoring Sanders, and even hinting the need for climate "pragmatism" favors Clinton. Perhaps my best--and most passionate--piece of political analysis.

There are several conjectures on the factors that may cause Puerto Rico's unsustainable indebtedness.

Just weeks after the completion (and failure) of one supposed 'containment' wall (and as the construction of the "ice wall" begins), TEPCO, the operator of the crippled Fukushima nuclear plant, has admitted that the levels of radioactivity in underground tunnels has risen sharply (4000x last year's levels). As NHKWorld reports, TEPCO officials have stated that they plan to investigate what caused the spike in radiation... yes, that would seem like a good idea.