Future World Populations (2050)

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Published on Jun 23, 2015

Projecting the most-populated nations in the world in 2050, 35 years from now (2015).

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Interview with Adult Educator Mark Hathaway: The methodology of his Earth Charter Programme

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Interest in New Noam Chomsky Documentary Has Grown So Large That Even the NY Times Ran a Review—and Praised It!

 

 

 ‘Requiem for the American Dream,’ Chomsky addresses the vast gulf of inequality in America. By Alexandra Rosenmann / AlterNet
February 4, 2016

 

In the new documentary Requiem for the American Dream, produced and directed by Peter Hutchison, Kelly Nyks and Jared P. Scott, Noam Chomsky argues that the collapse of American democratic ideals and the rise of the 1% means that the American dream is harder than ever to achieve. And unlike during the Great Depression, there seems to be no end in sight to this class struggle.

“The effect of the concentration of wealth is to yield concentration of power. [Therefore] the very fact of inequality has a corrosive, harmful effect on democracy,” Chomsky states.

Chomsky was raised in an American middle-class immigrant family in the 1930s. Filmmakers use interviews with Chomsky and archival video from the 1950s onward to illustrate the golden age of American history, as Chomsky calls it. The average worker was able to buy a home, a car and live a life of relative comfort. Upward class mobility was not only aspirational, but achievable.

The widening wage gap, he claims, is “a result of over 30 years of a shift in social and economic policy, completely against the will of the population.” Today, young families are slightly wealthier than their parents were three decades ago, according to a recent BMO Economics Report. However, millennials need to pay more to get their foot in the door and are accumulating debt loads about 260% higher than their parents did at their age.

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Climate Matters: 2015 Hottest Year

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Published on Jan 20, 2016

It’s official. And it’s a scorcher. Scientists announced today that data confirms what we already suspected – 2015 was the warmest year ever recorded for the planet. Here’s meteorologist Sean Sublette with the details.

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Meteorological Memories: Top Weather Events of 2015

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Climate Matters Pieter Tans Keeling Curve

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