Pakistan is flooding again, millions more homeless. Panic about Dengue fever. Dengue in the Caribbean now, 12 cases reported this year in Florida. Learn what Dengue is, what to do. New diseases with global warming. Then a powerful speech by Robert F. Kennedy Jr., at the Commonwealth Club of Calif. How coal poisoned us all, & fish too. How corporations control media, stifling Progressive radio. Plus a vision of fossil-free America.
Pakistan research by Khalid Hassan & Alex Smith.
Robert F. Kennedy speech recorded by the Climate One project at commonwealthclub.org
End music by Vastmandana (find him at soundclick.com)
Also available as 2 29 minute segments for stations requiring time for station ID & announcements (posted below).
Dengue fever is a new consequence of a warming planet and globalized shipping. The bug carrying it, the Asian Tiger mosquito, was found in Los Angeles last week. Learn how to recognize it from this broadcast.
If Dengue fever breaks out for real, it will cause panic and possibly crash the hospital system, as just happened in Pakistan (e.g. in Lahore). Absolute record breaking rain, way beyond a normal Monsoon, just slammed the Port city of Karachi, Pakistan's largest metropolis.
With 800,000 Pakistanis still homeless from last year's deluge, another 2 million are currently homeless or evacuated. Hundreds have died.
Will extreme rainfall events and flooding challenge civilization sooner and harder than rising seas?
(Just look at the record rains that hit Virginia and New England last week...)
RFK's speech is a blockbuster - bitter and still hopeful at the same time. For some quotes from the speech, check out this week's Radio Ecoshock blog at http://www.ecoshock.info
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