Susan Bodnar PhD

Gulf Coast Oil Spill #4: Teens

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If you are wondering just how bad things really are in the Gulf see this ABC news report. Philippe Cousteau (Jacque’s grandson) calls it a “nightmare.” Transocean is holding a memorial today for those who died in the Deepwater Horizon in Jackson, Miss. . People have died.  The US government is now calling it the […]

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Gulf Coast Oil Spill #3

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The news coming out of the Gulf coast suggests that there is a great deal of denial, at best, or according to some scientists quoted in the NYTimes, an actual  suppression of information.  Brit Hume actually asked, “Where is the oil?” (See it at climateprogress.org).  I suppose he hasn’t had the opportunity to check in […]

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Gulf Oil Spill

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I’m working on pulling together words and ideas from psychological theory to explain why we let this happen, how it will affect us, and what we can do to encourage people to stop hurting our planet.  As the sick and wounded wildlife covered in oil begin to appear, and as life forms are decimated- from […]

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