Articles by Frank Joseph Smecker
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DEPRAVED INJUSTICE AND THE PRIVATIZATION OF THE GLOBAL FRESHWATER COMMONS
Frank Joseph Smecker,
15 Jun 2009
“Of all our natural resources water has become the most precious. By far the greater part of the earth’s surface is covered by its enveloping seas, yet in the midst of this plenty we are in want. By a strange paradox, most of the earth’s abundant water is not usable for agriculture, industry, or human […]
→ read full articleWHAT CHINA’S ECONOMIC GROWTH MEANS FOR THE GLOBAL ECOLOGY
Frank Joseph Smecker,
24 May 2009
Fueled by Western Capitalism, China is on the rise, knocking down forests, displacing watersheds, and exhaling a toxic amalgam of gases and particulates along its way. Much of the information below was retrieved in 2007, immediately before the unprecedented vagaries in the global ‘market’ (aka the barometer that purports to show how efficiently Capitalism is […]
→ read full articleTHE NUCLEAR GOLIATH: CONFRONTING INDUSTRIAL ENERGY
Frank Joseph Smecker,
3 Apr 2009
Lately, many may have heard the affable radio jingles for nuclear energy as a clean and reliable candidate to supplant the U.S.’s reliance on foreign fossil fuels. This is sheer, malignant propaganda. Nuclear energy, along with its requisite mining, is not only unsustainable to a high degree, but is, in all aspects, violently rapacious as […]
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