Tom Athanasiou

All You Need Is Weed No. 1 - The first OFFICIAL full-color edition - Reefer-Toking Bigfoots, Talking Joints, Pot-Smoking Mice... and those are just the minor characters in this chronic-packed book of NEW Underground Comix done in that classic early 1970's style Follow the daily adventures of a carefree pot farmer, 69, and the stoner gang that thrive in his hazy green world. All executed with the influential spirit of the genuine masters of the underground comix generation. Artist/Author Tom Athanasiou has re-created something vintage, which is now something excitingly new to a young (and believe it or not, old) generation of marijuana admirers. Which we know involves a heck of lot of the populace. So break out your bong and get ready to read some fun, and mind-altering adventures in this, the first packed volume of marijuana-flavored comics, All You Need Is Weed. - Check out Facebook.com/AllYouNeedIsWeedComics for updates on news, comic-con events, shows, and merchandise.

No. 1 - The original black and white comics as they were intended to be viewed in their full-page comic book style version. Reefer-Toking Bigfoots, Talking Joints, Pot-Smoking Mice... and those are just the minor characters in this chronic-packed book of NEW Underground Comix done in that classic early 1970's style Follow the daily adventures of a carefree pot farmer, 69, and the stoner gang that thrive in his green world. All represented in authentic black and white, and executed with the influential spirit of the genuine masters of the underground comix generation. Artist/Author Tom Athanasiou has re-created something vintage, which is now something excitingly new to a young (and believe it or not, old) generation of marijuana admirers. Which we know involves a heck of lot of the populace. So break out your bong and get ready to read some fun, and mind-altering adventures in this, the first packed volume of marijuana-flavored comics, All You Need Is Weed. - Check out Facebook.com/AllYouNeedIsWeedComics for updates on news, comic-con events, shows. -- For more merchandise (awesome T-Shirts) check out Etsy.com/AllYouNeedIsWeed

At first the Bush administration said the jury was still out—that no one could be sure if the Earth was warming, and, even if it was, no one could be certain that human pollution was to blame. Then, unable to line up any real scientific support for this now absurd position, it quietly changed its tune. These days, Bush says that we must adapt to climate change. U.S. climate policy, in other words, is: get used to it. Tom Athanasiou and Paul Baer couldn’t disagree more. In their brilliantly argued new book, Dead Heat: Global Justice and Global Warming, they explain that, even in the face of accelerating climate change, we still have intelligent choices available, and can still hold the warming below catastrophic levels. The book explains how. Today's “extreme weather events” (record-breaking heat waves, droughts, and melting ice caps) foreshadow an increasingly unstable and dire future. Yet, despite all, the Bush administration continues to reject the Kyoto Protocol, to deny the catastrophic consequences of oil dependency, and to define the politics of oil as the politics of U.S. unilateralism, domination, and war. In Dead Heat, Tom Athanasiou and Paul Baer explain the threat and the science of drawing the line before it becomes real. This science (and their sources are the very latest) demonstrates that, if greenhouse pollution is not drastically reduced, the earth's climate system is likely to shift—and perhaps soon—onto a terrifying and irreversible path. Then, on this grim ground, they proceed to argue that only a social justice approach can shape the necessary compromise between the rich world and the poor; that, in effect, justice can make it possible to cut a path to sustainability, even on this, a planet riven with explosive national, ideological, and class divides. The problem is time. Today, the global average surface warming is only 0.6 degrees Centigrade, and already the climate is changing fast. And the science shows that any future in which we hold the warming to a maximum of 2º C (and 2º C, by the way, would mean massive destruction) will require decisive global action; something like a “global Marshall Plan” but tuned, particularly, to sustainable energy development. It comes to this: the emissions trajectories and climate sensitivity indexes show, in mercilessly unambiguous terms, that even if we move quickly to cap global carbon emissions, the impact of the warming will soon become quite severe, and that in the more pessimistic case, where the fossil-fuel cartel remains in power, its impact will be shattering. Dead Heat argues that justice—not rhetoric and “aid” but real developmental justice for the people of developing world—is going to be necessary, and surprisingly soon. It argues, more particularly, that such a justice must involve a phased transition from the Kyoto Protocol to a new climate treaty based on equal human rights to emit greenhouse pollutants. Dead Heat makes the case for climate justice, but insists that justice and equity, for all their manifold ethical and humanitarian attractions, must also be seen as the most “realistic” of virtues. It insists, in other words, that our limited environmental space will itself show that it isthe dream of a “business as usual” future that is naïve and utopian. Athanasiou and Baer argue that the battle against global warming is key to the larger battle for global justice. Dead Heat isn’t simply about understanding the political and social arguments about global warming, it’s about winning them.

This work contains a proposed solution to the Earth's most urgent ecological crises. The author suggests that we need to stop indulging fantasies in which everything seems to change, and instead, do what needs to be done while there is still time and good will.