A TURNING POINT FOR THE PLANET French President Nicolas Sarkozy, German Chancellor Angela Merkel and European Commission President Jose Manuel Barroso congratulate each other following the Copenhagen Climate Summit, where world leaders agreed to massive reductions in greenhouse gas emissions. The new policy came about in response to public protests around the globe demanding that world leaders do the right thing for the planet.
Websites and networking help thousands to save climate, make change
BY PETER BAUMANN
COPENHAGEN – Over the last six months, hundreds of thousands of people across Europe participated in nonviolent direct action focused on corporate and government targets across the continent. The protests were designed to disrupt “business as usual” and force these companies and politicians into [...]
Germany, Denmark and Spain are winners of the new energy economy
BY JIM MADDOX
LONDON – When the deal to save the climate was announced in the early hours of the morning in Copenhagen the first markets to respond were in East Asia. Markets in the Philippines and Indonesia soared as analysts adjusted prices to reflect the [...]
France revolutionizes climate summit, stuns delegates and leaders
BY FRANÇOISE BOUTON
PARIS – He’s a man that many love to hate, even in his own country. French president Nicolas Sarkozy is often satirized as controlling and pushy and with a bling lifestyle and trophy wife whom he loves to flaunt. As his many critics analyze Sarkozy’s complex [...]
BY MICHAEL COUNTRY
COPENHAGEN – World leaders gathered at the Copenhagen Climate Summit took an historic step to halt climate change and global warming today. The deal will force ambitious cuts in global carbon emissions, end deforestation and help fund climate protection measures in the developing world.
The intense negotiations spilled into the early morning hours with [...]
BY HILLARY IONESCO
PARIS – The World Heritage Committee has officially declared the Earth’s atmosphere as the newest addition to its famous “World Heritage Sites.” Finally taking its place alongside such wonders as Chichen-Itza and the city of Fez, the atmosphere had long been rejected from inclusion in this list for what has been cited as [...]
BY PETRO CHEMICA
DALLAS – After years of waging a disinformation campaign denying climate change, ExxonMobil, the American oil and gas giant, has announced that it is converting fully to renewable energy, following the positive outcome of the U.N. climate summit in Copenhagen.
The corporation has also agreed to pay off the fines originally awarded by a [...]
BY GUNTER LEGHORN
AMSTERDAM – We know what happened. Massive nonviolent direct actions led to mass arrests, filling up the jails, raising mass consciousness about climate change and putting great pressure on Europe’s leaders. This forced a real agenda onto the Copenhagen talks, leading to the cooperative global solutions that are now being implemented.Yes, we’re all [...]
Berlusconi stuns climate summit with policy shift
BY MATTIA GRENADO
ROME – Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi was rushed to hospital late today and treated for confetti inhalation and minor hug-related injuries sustained at the hero’s welcome he received in Rome on return from the climate summit. Grateful Italians overwhelmed security at Fiumicino airport to greet the [...]
Radical departure from old ways for clean and safe future
BY INDIRA KHAN
NEW DELHI – Everyone remembers where they were when men landed on the moon, when the Berlin wall came down and when Obama won the election. In the years to come, what happened today in New Delhi will become one such indelible moment for [...]
“Free Radicals” in the U.S. douse corporate and government officials to get good climate deal
A philosophy of father-son relationships, achieved through the assembly and disassembly of motor vehicles.
How deep-seated racial bias toward Black people remains an obstacle to a ‘postracial’ America.
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