August 19th, 2011 | by Bob Higgins
There's not a lot of information coming out of Tokyo Electric Power (TEPCO) or the Japanese government regarding the severity of the ongoing meltdown at the Fukushima Daichi nuclear facility. What we are getting is alarming and according to an Al Jazeera story yesterday Japanese scientists and doctors are sounding the alarm
August 10th, 2011 | by Bob Higgins
We are a civilization that ignores or glosses over its past mistakes, the horrors of its history and seems blissfully oblivious to all the terrible dangers that surround us in the present. With all the conflict and war, rapid population growth, dwindling supplies of resources, from water, to food, to energy, and the steadily warming temperature of the atmospheric stew we're all simmering in, I'm amazed that anyone believes we will have descendents at all beyond a century or two
