Hurricane Katrina wreaked havoc on New Orleans on 28th August 2005

(NOAA-National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration)

2010 Global Weirding - Hybrids in Taiwan

A male lion and a female tigress have produced ligers (half lion and half tiger) in a zoo in Taiwan. The offspring have been rejected by their mother.

2010 Global Weirding - Droughts, Floods and Starvation in Niger

2010 Global Weirding - Heat Waves

Across the World from South America to the Middle East
many Nations broke heat records this summer

Fogos florestais- You Tube - Honra aos Bombeiros Portugueses

Pakistan Floods

I Need To Wake Up

'I Need To Wake Up' was written by Melissa Etheridge for the film 'An Inconvenient Truth'

AN INCONVENIENT TRUTH

From director Davis Guggenheim, AN INCONVENIENT TRUTH, is a passionate and inspirational look at former Vice President Al Gore´s fervant crusade to halt global warming´s deadly progress by exposing the myths and misconceptions that surround it. In this intimate portrait of Gore and his "travelling global warming show", Gore comes across as never before in the media - funny, engaging, open and intent on alerting citizens to this "planetary emergency" before it´s too late.
from www.climatecrisis.net

AL GORE

Albert Arnold "Al" Gore, Jr. was born on March 31, 1948. He was Vice President of The United States under President Bill Clinton.

"When we consider a subject as the environment, we often focus on its most visible aspects - the air we breathe, the water we drink, the food we put on the table. Those things are critically important. But to me the environment is also about our sense of community - the obligation we have to each other, and to future generations, to safeguard God´s earth.
Those values I learned firsthand, as a young boy on my family´s farm in Tenessee. We didn´t call it environmentalism back then; it was simple common sense. My earliest environmental lessons came from our efforts to prevent soil erosion or our family table discussions about Rachel Carson´s classic "Silent Spring."
Al Gore, Time Special Issue, November 1999

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Mankind has been hurting nature for so long...

Hugo Krayn's METROPOLIS (Berlin) (1914)


Hugo Krayn's (1885-1914) METROPOLIS depicts the darker side of Berlin: billowing smoke, factories, and hurrying workers reflect the impersonal forces of modernity.
from GHDI

The web of life

This we know: the earth does not belong to man, man belongs to earth. All things are connected like the blood that unites us all. Man did not weave the web of life; he is merely a strand in it. Whatever he does to the web, he does to himself.
Chief Seattle, 1885

Rachel Carson

Born: May 27, 1907
Died: April 14, 1964
Nationality: American
Occupation: zoologist, marine biologist
Most important work: Silent Spring
Subject: ecology, pollution, pesticides

Environmentalism

Rachel Carson made environmentalism respectable. Before SILENT SPRING, nearly all Americans believed that science was a force for good. Carson's work exposed the dark side of science. It showed that DDT and other chemicals we were using to enhance agricultural productivity were poisoning our lakes, rivers, oceans, and ourselves. Thanks to her, progress can no longer be measured solely in tons of wheat produced and millions of insects killed. Thanks to her, the destruction of nature can no longer be called progress.

Quotes from SILENT SPRING

These sprays, dusts, and aerosols are now applied almost universally to farms, gardens, forests, and homes — nonselective chemicals that have the power to kill every insect, the “good” and the “bad,” to still the song of birds and the leaping of fish in the streams, to coat the leaves with a deadly film, and to linger on in soil — all this though the intended target may be only a few weeds or insects. Can anyone believe it is possible to lay down such a barrage of poisons on the surface of the earth without making it unfit for all life? They should not be called “insecticides,” but “biocides.”

from SILENT SPRING by Rachel Carson


“The earth’s vegetation is part of a web of life in which there are intimate and essential relations between plants and animals. Sometimes we have no choice but to disturb these relationships, but we should do so thoughtfully, with full awareness that what we do may have consequences remote in time and place.”

from SILENT SPRING by Rachel Carson

“It is not possible to add pesticides to water anywhere without threatening the purity of water everywhere. Seldom if ever does Nature operate in closed and separate compartments, and she has not done so in distributing the earth’s water supply.”

from SILENT SPRING by Rachel Carson

Nature turns against us

Volcanic eruption in Iceland

Nature turns against us

Tornado in Lisbon

Iceland volcanic ash cloud

Iceland volcano

Earthquake

A WINTER´S TALE

Listen to the song by The Queen and fill in the blank spaces with the words missing:



It´s Winter-fall
Red _____ are gleaming - oh -
Sea-gulls are flyin´over
Swans are floatin´by
Smokin´chimney-tops
Am I dreaming ...
Am I dreaming ...?
The _____ draw in
There´s a _____ moon up in the sky - yeah -
Children are fantasising
Grown-ups are standin´by
What a super feeling
Am I dreaming ...
Am I dreaming ...?
Woh-woh-woh-woh

So quiet and peaceful
Tranquil and blissful
There´s a _____ of magic in the air
What a _____ magnificent view
A breathtaking scene
With the _____ of the world
In the palm of your hand

WATCH THE VIDEO

THE GLOBAL WARMING SURVIVAL GUIDE

Things You can Do to Make a Difference:

- Turn food into fuel
- Change your lightbulbs
- Ride the bus
- Say No to plastic bags
- Drive green
- Consume less
...
Time, April 9, 2007

GO ON! ADD SOME MORE TIPS!

Environmental words

energy-efficient / non-toxic / recycling / rain forest

endangered species

deforestation / ozone layer / greenhouse effect / solar energy

global warming / fossil fuels / carbon dioxide

droughts / extinction

A última estrofe do poema de Brian Patten

We´ve had to fit "Granny Locks"
To keep poor Granny in.
She really doesn´t understand
How rain eats away the skin.

Writing a Comment

Comment on this picture. What does it suggest to you? Don´t write more than 35-40 words.

It´s Poisoning Down

Granny keeps telling stories

Of how she used to go

Walking in the pouring rain

And playing in the snow.

She talks of things called flowers.

She says they had nice smells.

(Sometimes she sounds convincing,

The crazy fibs she tells!)

She says that lakes and rivers

Were once all clean and pure,

But I don´t believe a word,

I´ve heard it all before.

Poor Gran can be quite dotty -

You want to see Mum frown

When she tries to get outside

Even though it´s poisoning down.

Brian Patten