Politics
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Climate & Climate Politics
- Humans play major role in ocean warming – Technology & science – Science – LiveScience – msnbc.com
- The Light of Day | Open Mind
- Gallup Poll: 57 Percent Of Chinese Believe Environmental Protection Should Be Their Country’s Top Priority | ThinkProgress
- Nobel Prize-Winner Elinor Ostrom Dies | Common Dreams
Ostrom’s work highlighted the power of “the commons”
– Common Dreams staffElinor Ostrom, the only woman to receive the Nobel Prize in economics, died today at the age of 78 from cancer.
(Photo: Chris Meyer / Indiana University)Indiana University, where Ostrom had been a faculty member, remarked in a statement on her passing that her Nobel-winning work “showed that ordinary people are capable of creating rules and institutions that allow for the sustainable and equitable management of shared resources. Her work countered the conventional wisdom that only private ownership or top-down regulation could prevent a ‘tragedy of the commons,’ in which users would inevitably destroy the resources that they held in common.”In a 2010 interview with YES! Magazine, Ostrom said in answering what her message to the general public would be, “Some of our mentality about what it means to have a good life is, I think, not going to help us in the next 50 years. We have to think through how to choose a meaningful life where we’re helping one another in ways that really help the Earth.” (…Read The Complete Article…)
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The Culture Wars
- Pastor rewriting marriage equality – The Last Word
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The Good Pastor tries to make his congregation see the light about his position on marriage equality. The Bad Pastor hangs President Obama in effigy, lynches him up and claims there was absolutely nothing racist about it. MSNBC’s Lawrence O’Donnell has the comparison in the latest Rewrite.
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