This is just too disturbing. The Bush Administration has named Matthew J. Hogan, a former lobbyist for Safari Club International, the new acting head of the US Fish and Wildlife Service. Here is a tagline from an SCI promotion: Make a Life-long commitment to protect your freedom to hunt. SCI is “First for Hunters and …
Category Archives: Environment
Agent Orange study dropped
From todays New Scientist US cancels Agent Orange study in Vietnam Is Agent Orange responsible for deformities in the children and grandchildren of people exposed to it during the Vietnam war? Vietnam claims the herbicide, used by the US to reduce forest cover, is to blame. But the US has never accepted this. … the …
Peace and Quiet
Imagine it’s 2010. You’re in downtown New York, London, or Toronto. It all looks the same but for some reason it seems a whole lot different. You can hear a bird up on the 15 floor of the tower above you. There is a vendor down the street talking to someone, trying to convince them …