[Show script][to hear the program, click the title above] [sci-fi – but all too true clip from trailer for new game] Our opening clip comes not from a documentary of our times, but from a trailer for a new video game called “Frontlines,  …

This is writer, activist and hitchhiker MacDonald Stainsby. He is coordinator of a website called oilsandstruth.org. The Tar Sands megaprojects in Northern Alberta, Canada are so horrible, so insane, I don’t really want to talk about it. In fact, most Canadians – and  …

As the poles melted, the world governments assembled at the tropical paradise of Bali, to confront the climate crisis. With Canada running interference (threatening to kill the conference) – the U.S. APPEARED to give in – but actually gave up nothing. As we  …

In the summer of 2005, the Arctic Ice drew back, to reveal a record amount of northern ocean. The summer melt of 2007 was 23 percent bigger. We are losing the annual white reflective cover over the Arctic Sea. The whole climate system  …

[SHOW TRANSCRIPT] The carbon bomb. Were the recent wild fires in California a sign of global warming? Did you know that the whole American West is tinder, ready to burn? Today we start with California, but then discover the whole Rocky mountain chain  …

In the last few years, as the North heats up, wild fires have been burning, unreported and unopposed, across the top of the world, in both Canada and Siberia. The latest climate models used by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change does NOT  …

As the Iraq war stumbles into bloody nowhere, who – just what kind of madmen – could ramp up for yet another war, this time against Iran? Seasoned journalist Seymour Hersh attempts to answer this question, in the Amnesty International 2007 Lecture, delivered  …

What ever label humans give their system – Capitalism, Socialism, any-ism – the name of the game is consume the planet as fast as we can. That’s what deep green author and activist Derrick Jensen tells me in this first Ecoshock interview with  …

Does capitalism have to fall – to save the Earth? Dr. Joel Kovel thinks so. He’s the influential lefty academic who wrote “Enemy of Nature.” The subtitle was “The End of Capitalism, or the End of the World.” Kovel was in Vancouver to  …

[To hear the whole show, including the 3 interviews, click the title above in Blogger, or go to http://www.ecoshock.net/eshock/ES_070914_Show.mp3] [As prepared before air. Items in [square brackets] were cut due to time limits.] ALEX SMITH: Today we’re going to continue our investigation of  …