Human species in deep trouble if Trump successful - Chomsky

America’s presidential primary elections for the Republican and Democrat Parties are entertaining and damn frightening.

The contest between Democrat candidates Hilary Clinton and Bernie Sanders seems somewhat traditional, but it is in the Republican camp that things become a little disturbing.

TruthDig has put together several short videos that give reason to be concerned about the extent of Republican views, particularly those of the party’s lead candidate, Donald Trump.

Here, Noam Chomsky follows the alarming short clips to elucidate why the world is in trouble if Donald Trump becomes the next U.S. president, among them the fact that Trump does not “believe” in climate change and so would do nothing as the leader of the world’s most powerful nation to counter what science has indisputably proved.

Watch the TruthDig video - “Noam Chomsky: 5 Reasons the ‘Human Species Is in Very Deep Trouble’ If Trump Wins.”

A day when we should all make a decision

What does the June 5 “World Environment Day” mean to Beneath the Wisteria supporters?

Trees are the "lungs or the earth"
 and yet we treat them with
alarming disrespect.

Those of us who gather Beneath the Wisteria on the last Saturday of each month consider our response to climate change, but integral to our discussions are a broader concern about our environment.

Considering that, World Environment Day should be one of the pinnacles of our year or at least a time when we should be thinking about how our various addictions, whatever they might be, are impacting on the world’s eco systems.

The phase “World Environment Day” rolls off one’s lips very easily and so mostly passes without having any lasting impact.

Maybe it is a time when each of us can make a decision to think somewhat more deeply about what it really means and what we can do as individuals to ensure that the environment that was, until recently, ideal for the human species, continues or at least is maintained.

Many things need to be done, but probably the most challenging, and undoubtedly the most confrontational and within that the most disruptive and divisive, is to discuss honestly how we should address our exploding population.

Predictions point to a world of nine billion people by 2050 and with seven billion today the world has already exhausted many of its resources and our environment is truly suffering and so on June 5 it would be appropriate for each of us to think about what role we can play, as individuals, in helping promote a greater understanding of the need for population control.

Enlisting nuclear power to solve our energy dilemmas and address global warming

Is the answer to our energy needs
and global warming to be found in
nuclear energy?

The Saturday, April 28, gathering Beneath the Wisteria will see the continuation of discussions about our use of energy with regard our response to climate change.

Many alternatives have been proposed. But discussions have rarely seriously focused on nuclear energy.

This argument demands we now genuinely consider this alternative.

A guest post on BRAVENEWCLIMATE by physicist and a radiologist, Bill Sacks, and English professor with a specialization in critical theory, Greg Meyerson, was an illuminating discussion entitled “Lessons about nuclear energy from the Japanese quake and tsunami”.

It was written about month into the Fukushima crisis. Both authors are based in the U.S.
A quick consideration of their thoughts can be found can be read here – “The nuclear energy solution”.

A longer and more thorough explanation is “Nuclear energy: The only solution to the energy problem and global warming”.

A preface to the above says:When humanity looks back on the few centuries of capitalism, it will be immediately apparent that a particular economic and social system, into which history led first Europe and then the rest of the world, not only hijacked myriad resources of limited supply, without concern for their longevity, but also disposed of the waste products in a careless way, destined to greatly diminish the livability of the planet. This global human process that will have occupied no more than the blink of a geological eye may yet prove to have made living conditions immeasurably more difficult for humans, as well as for other animals and plant life, for a much longer duration than the destructive process itself -- perhaps many millennia. These conditions will, if they come to pass, faintly echo the hostile world environment tens of millions of years ago, long before the very appearance of humanity on the world stage. The thorough elimination of such a system, by the vast majority of humanity who suffer at its hands, cannot occur too soon for the sake of the human species.