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[Rubicon] The political winds have shifted so much that even Bush now admits that something is happening: "I recognize that the surface of the earth is warmer and that anincrease in greenhouse gases caused by humans is contributing to theproblem." But he still minimizes the effects and refuses to do anything about it: "Kyoto would have wrecked our economy."
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[Adamsmith.org] Adam Smith Institute Blog - Environment Archives: Astute readers will have guessed that this is an environmental blog, named after the famous 1968 Garrett Hardin essay, The Tragedy of the Commons. The blog itself looks at how market mechanisms can solve environmental problems - solutions that are often ignored by environmental pressure groups, despite their effectiveness.
[Gristmill.grist.org] Don't Fear the Reapers | Gristmill: The environmental news blog ...: We must work to change average Americans from Christian, human-centered consciousness, which is rooted in superstition for the former and egotism and selfishness for the latter, into a people who embrace an Earth- or nature-centered consciousness that sees that everything is just a part of the universal consciousness. While doing this, it won't hurt to get people to realize that doing ecological harm also harms themselves, but this only goes so far toward stopping ecological destruction and should not be our goal.
[Blog.greens.org.nz] frogblog » Oh dear: ( Renewable means wind and hydro and geothermal and biomass. Excluding some valley from being wrecked by a hydro plant doesn’t change the renewable nature of hydro.) There are pumped hydro storage facilities that allow smoothing of the electric load peak.
[Allafrica.com] Blog Africa: BlogAfrica Catalog: SIDAREC(Slums Information Development & Resource Centres) is a youth development project operating in the slums of Nairobi, their objectives include the initiation of income generating activities and development of credit schemes.The growing recognition of the immense human capital in the African 'shadow cities' is evident and welcome,this project and others hopefully underlie a strengthening of hope about young people's desire to improve their living standards and those of the larger community in which they reside in.
[Futurepundit.com] FuturePundit: Jared Diamond Wrong To Worry About Environmental ...: If you want to worry about the future worry about natural dangers such as an asteroid collision or a repeat of the Yellowstone area eruption of 600,000 years ago that spewed out 240 cubic miles of debris. Or if you want to worry about human dangers worry about run-away nanotech lifeforms or a robot take-over. Common forms of pollution or depletion of trees or fish or minerals just aren't going to bring down our civilization.
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