n>It is often said that the first step to quitting a personal addiction is to acknowledge that one has an addiction. The corporations in charge of our carbon-based global economy are fixated on drilling and guzzling away the Earth’s natural resources in direct defiance to the Quranic verse “And the servants of Ar-Rahmaan are those who tread upon the earth lightly.” Despite this, the United States is a hotbed of climate change denial, with 5% of survey respondents holding that the climate is not even changing. Another 13% of Americans do marginally better, acknowledging the changing tides of our climate but not holding humans liable. Read Full Article »