News from Bolivia, and elsewhere.
Posted in environment on Dec 15th, 2009
The New York Times has an article up today about the impact of global warming on the glaciers and water supply of the area surrounding La Paz and El Alto in the Andes of Bolivia. It’s a timely piece, as climate-change talks in Copenhagen are in tumult after poorer nations threatened to walk out over [...]
Posted in environment on Nov 17th, 2009
Nikolas Kozloff has a wonderful plea/screed about global climate change and the obstacles faced by environmentalists in the face of reflexive pro-capitalist thinking from the “Global North.” It combines the history of moral activism (Bertrand Russell in his later years, specifically) with contemporary conditions in the Bolivian Andes. A fun, and challenging (to idealism), read.
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Posted in environment on Jul 31st, 2009
The BBC has a report on Bolivia’s Illimani–the majestic four-peaked mountain that towers over La Paz and El Alto–and the slow disappearance of its ice pack, on which farmers in the altiplano depend for irrigation and drinking water. The altiplano can be an unforgiving place. It’s cold at night, and by day the sun shines [...]
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