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Books - Modern
(within the last few years) The Long Emergency Surviving the converging catastrophes of the twenty-first century / James Howard Kunstler Twilight In The Desert The coming Saudi oil shock and the world economy / Matthew R. Simmons Island in the Sea of Time A cosmic disturbance transports the island of Nantucket and its inhabitants over three thousand years back in time to the shores of a stone age America The Weathermakers How man is changing the climate and what it means for life on earth / Tim Flannery Collapse How Societies choose to fail or succeed / Jared Diamond Waiting For The Macaws and other stories from the age of extinctions / Terry Glavin The Science of Good & Evil Why people cheat, gossip, care, share and follow the golden rule - Michael Shermer Camp of the Saints Jean Raspail and Jeremy Leggatt Krakatoa The day the world exploded August 27, 1883 / Simon Winchester It's The Crude Dude War, big oil and fight for the planet Holding The Bully's Coat Canada and the U.S. empire / Linda McQuaig http://www.lindamcquaig.com/books.cfm The Limits of Power The end of American exceptionalism / Andrew J. Bacevich A Fair Country Telling truths about Canada / John Ralston Saul |
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Books - Environmental Classics
Small Is Beautiful
Economics as if people mattered / E.F. Schumacher The Waste Makers Vance Packard (difficult to find - try used books or online book finders) |
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Movies
Syriana
(2006) Oil depletion, government corruption and denial ... for Powell River people concerned about the LNG plant ... watch for terrorist attacks on one of the LNG tankers, the kind they want floating past our doorstep! Soylent Green (1973) An Inconvenient Truth (2006) Al Gore Farenheit 9/11 (2006) Michael Moore Manufactured Landscapes (2006) |
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Websites
http://www.citizensforpublicpower.ca/node/309 The B.C. government is planning to allow tanker traffic through the Georgia Strait (Remember Exxon Valdez?!) http://www.tenthousandvoices.org http://www.kunstler.com |