Steve Krizman

1959, physicist Edward Teller tells the American Petroleum Institute: Carbon dioxide "causes a greenhouse effect [....] It has been calculated that a temperature rise corresponding to a 10 per cent increase in carbon dioxide will be sufficient to melt the icecap and submerge New York."

1968: Stanford Research Institute report for the American Petroleum Institute: "Significant temperature changes are almost certain to occur by the year 2000, and these could bring about climatic changes. [...] there seems to be no doubt that the potential damage to our environment could be severe."

When Richard Oakes, the leader of the Alcatraz occupation, talked about "dual governments," he proposed a confederacy of Indigenous Nations that would govern themselves, just as the Haudenosaunee Confederacy has done for 500 years.

Peggy Duff, the mother of the Ban the Bomb movement, would shudder to know that nine countries now have nuclear bombs and that 10,000 warheads lurk around the world. But she wouldn't give up. The Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament, the group she helped found in 1957, is still in the fight.

The American Petroleum Institute was celebrating Big Oil's 100th birthday in 1959 when Edward Teller went to the podium and killed the buzz. "Carbon dioxide has a strange property. It transmits visible light, but it absorbs the infrared radiation which is emitted from the earth. ..."

"Its presence in the atmosphere causes a greenhouse effect [....] It has been calculated that a temperature rise corresponding to a 10 per cent increase in carbon dioxide will be sufficient to melt the icecap and submerge New York. All the coastal cities would be covered. ..." s

Remembering Richard Oakes, a legendary Indigenous leader cut down at the age of 30. Murdered #OTD, Sept. 20, 1972. Oakes led the 19-month occupation of Alcatraz Island, an action that inspired Indigenous takeovers of contested land throughout the Northwest.

He sought to bring Indigenous nations together for reparations and cultural revival. He protested the California Highway Department’s seizure of Indigenous land to widen a road in Sonoma County, and got into a dispute with the manager of a YMCA camp.

Remembering Richard Oakes, a legendary Indigenous leader cut down at the age of 30. Murdered #OTD, Sept. 20, 1972. Oakes led the 19-month occupation of Alcatraz Island, an action that inspired Indigenous takeovers of contested land throughout the Northwest.

Peggy Duff, the mother of the Ban the Bomb movement, deserved the Nobel Peace Prize, Noam Chomsky said. But she never got the recognition she deserved. A plaque marks the tiny two-bedroom flat where she lived in London.

The peace sign made its debut at the Aldermaston Marches in the late ’50s and early ’60s. It was--and still is--the logo for the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament. Fitting to remember CND and march organizer Peggy Duff as belligerent nuclear powers push the Doomsday Clock closer to midnight.

“I think we made people, and that includes statesmen, aware of the horror of nuclear war,” said Aldermaston March organizer Peggy Duff. “Nuclear weapons have not been used again since 1945, and there has not been a nuclear war so far.”

When I traveled Italy and Spain during a heat wave, it was so comforting to find free water fountains throughout Rome, throughout Madrid, throughout lots of cities in Spain. Thanks, Emperor Justinian www.interlochenpublicradio.org/ipr-news/202...

Smart people have come up with this idea. It reminds me of the time that the Army Corps of Engineers decided to dam the Missouri River and flooded out an entire village of Native American people in South Dakota.

When I traveled Italy and Spain during a heat wave, it was so comforting to find free water fountains throughout Rome, throughout Madrid, throughout lots of cities in Spain. Thanks, Emperor Justinian www.interlochenpublicradio.org/ipr-news/202...

When I traveled Italy and Spain during a heat wave, it was so comforting to find free water fountains throughout Rome, throughout Madrid, throughout lots of cities in Spain. Thanks, Emperor Justinian www.interlochenpublicradio.org/ipr-news/202...

What if Alaska Natives had been allowed to administer lands on their own terms instead of the oil companies'? The land would be managed for the benefit of seven generations.

My essay today is about Howard Rock, an Inupiat who saved his village from. being nuked, then helped bring the Alaska Natives together. He watched regretfully as wilderness was doled out to oil companies.

What if Alaska Natives had been allowed to administer lands on their own terms instead of the oil companies'? The land would be managed for the benefit of seven generations.