Warm Wet Planet: Twentieth Transmission … Humanity

For all the damage they’ve inflicted on their one and only home, many human beings reflect on where they’ve gone wrong, and the major changes they’ll have to embrace in order to survive. Here are a few voices we’ve managed to capture.

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Warm Wet Planet: Nineteenth Transmission … Alternatives

Human beings are coming up with all sorts of ingenious ways to walk gently on planet Earth.

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Warm Wet Planet: Eighteenth Transmission … Poison

Judging from this latest voice transmission, it seems that human beings are poisoning themselves and their planet — transforming the very chemistry of their blue-green home.

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Warm Wet Planet: Seventeenth Transmission … War Crimes

A former senior justice official of Earth’s most powerful nation vents his rage at the war machine his country has become.

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Hebron Settlers

Right-wing Jewish settlers in the Palestinian city of Hebron wear skull caps and carry Glock pistols. They have forcibly expanded their settlements, closed Palestinian shops, and expelled residents. Settlers say they are protecting Jewish land. Palestinians and progressive Israelis say the settlers make a peace settlement impossible. Correspondent Reese Erlich takes us from the Jewish settlements of Hebron to the streets of Ramallah.

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Warm Wet Planet: Sixteenth Transmission … Ethics

If there’s any hope for the human species, it draws sustenance from the collective wisdom of Planet Earth’s indigenous people — a highly diverse array of First Nations who’ve come to be dominated, over the course of hundreds of years, by alien forces of a more militarily and technologically powerful nature. But Earth’s native people draw on great inner strength. In their struggle, Earth’s future lies.

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African Lion Down

Colonel Gaddafi was a genuine pan-Arabist, in the tradition of Egypt’s Gamal Abdel Nasser, except more radically anti-West. Under Gaddafi’s autocratic rule Libya improved greatly, and things became much better, especially for the poor and women, with a distribution of wealth hitherto unknown in any country on the continent.

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Warm Wet Planet: Fifteenth Transmission … Crash

Human beings discuss what Earth has in store for them … and the picture isn’t good …

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Warm Wet Planet: Fourteenth Transmission … Creation

Human beings can’t decide how exactly their planet came to be. They have plenty of imaginative ideas.

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Warm Wet Planet: Thirteenth Transmission … Consumption

Astonishingly, the so-called ‘human’ species appropriates about twenty percent of its planet’s net productive capacity. If the voices in this captured transmission are to be believed, humanity’s insatiable consumptive thirst will have profound impact on the future development of life on Earth.

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Bottom Line

Melaku Worede

An Interview with 1989 Right Livelihood Award winner Melaku Worede.

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