(Isherwood) 'This Clement World' (closes on Sunday) The idiosyncratic writer-singer-songwriter Cynthia Hopkins muses on the evils of climate change in her new show, which may bring no news to environmentally minded theatergoers, but features a terrific song score and some gorgeous video of her three-week sojourn in the Arctic (1 10).
Hoping for story inspiration but mainly having fun, I flip through Northwest Folkdancer, Nuts and Volts (about electronics), and the May/June issue of Wooden Boat, not to be confused with its near neighbour, Work Boat.Then on to the University of Washington for a lecture about the evils of climate change from Richard Leakey, a Kenyan conservationist.
Even so, via a video-link, Mr Chirac made a serious attempt to steal Mr Blair's thunder.As this year's head of the G8 wealthy industrial nations and, from July, president of the European Union, Mr Blair wanted to enlist the support of Davos men and women for his crusade against the twin evils of climate change and extreme poverty, especially in Africa.
McKibben also published an op-ed in The Guardian on Wednesday accusing Exxon of "unparalleled evil" in its climate denial. .
Poetic, sometimes startling stories about risking death from evil men or the climate in Upper Michigan.
ExxonMobil's current CEO, Rex Tillerson, has taken a much softer line, but ExxonMobil has not lost its position as the personification of corporate, and especially climate change, evil.
These days, Stasey treats Twitter as part-philosophical salon, part-soapbox from which to rail against the evils of the world – climate change, homophobia, child abuse, animal abuse, gluten, religion, racism and (she says) Nickelback.
That inconvenience, however, is a modest evil when set against catastrophic climate change.
The film is a hard-headed allegory on the brute side of human nature within a social climate where past evil contaminates the present.
