Atlampa: A view from the New World

bohemiansouth:

The U.S. team will certainly have a large crowd supporting it in its first game in Jacksonville since 1999. As of Friday afternoon, there were 37,000 tickets sold for the game. The state record for attendance at an international friendly is 31,547 fans, which was set on March 25, 2007, when the U.S. defeated Ecuador 3-1 at Raymond James Stadium in Tampa.

We’ll be there. Hope to see you, too.

Great to see this kind of support for soccer in the U.S.

“Many organizations, and it sounds like Discovery is one of them, appear to be more afraid of being criticized by climate change ‘dismissives’ than they are willing to provide information about climate change to the large majority of Americans who want to know more about it,” said Anthony Leiserowitz, the director of the Yale Project on Climate Change Communication. The people who are dismissive of human effect on climate change make up about 10 percent of the American population, according to Dr. Leiserowitz’s research, but they sometimes drown out the broader conversation about the subject, making themselves seem more numerous than they are.

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The devastation caused by this combination of natural and nuclear disasters spurred the growth of a strong anti-nuclear energy movement in Japan. In a Summer 2011 poll, 74% percent of people surveyed voted for Japan to shut down its 54 nuclear reactors as a preventive measure. At the moment, only six of the 54 reactors are in service.

Human overpopulation is a root cause of environmental destruction. It’s driving species extinct, destroying wildlife habitats and undermining the basic needs of all life at an unprecedented rate.

That’s why the Center for Biological Diversity – the nation’s leading endangered species group – launched its Human Overpopulation and Extinction Crisis campaign in 2010 and continues to push the conversation forward on this key threat to imperiled plants, animals and wildlands. This year the Center’s marking Earth Day by distributing 100,000 free Endangered Species Condoms around the country. The Center collaborated with artist Roger Peet to create a special edition of its award-winning colorful condom packages featuring a suite of species — from the dwarf seahorse to the polar bear — threatened by the world’s growing human population.