Can consumers save our climate?
27. Februar 2010 | Von atsil | Kategorie: Live Green n Clean, extension3Better-informed consumers have the potential to be important drivers of business and government action on climate change.
Better-informed consumers have the potential to be important drivers of business and government action on climate change.
The looming climate disaster should be our dominant political and policy concern. But it manifestly isn’t. Why not?
To purchase carbon credits from the countries of the Congo Basin would help the American industry and protect the rainforests.
The world needs a fair, effective and ambitious deal in Copenhagen.
“Germanwatch Climate Expedition” illustrates climate change from the perspective of space.
Victims of a warming world may be caught in a bureaucratic limbo unless things are done to ease—and better still, pre-empt—their travails.
Read more: Migration and climate change (economist.com)
The Global Climate Coalition led an aggressive lobbying and public relations campaign against the idea that emissions of heat-trapping gases could lead to global warming.
If China and the United States cannot agree on a common climate change strategy, atmospheric levels of carbon dioxide are likely to reach potentially disastrous levels.
Read more: Climate trap (New York Times)
“We can do nothing to stop climate change on our own, and so we have to buy land elsewhere” (Mohamed Nasheed)
By Andrew C. Revkin (The New York Times)
SUNDAY, MARCH 2, 2008
Scientists caution people on both sides of the environmental argument to not focus on short-term weather patterns but to look at the big picture.
http://www.iht.com/articles/2008/03/02/healthscience/cold.php
“To understand why Exxon Mobile is a worse environmental villain than other big oil companies, you need to know about how the science and politics of climate change have shifted….”
Paul Krugman: “Enemy of the Planet” (The New York Times)
Hey Mr. Raymond,
After helping Exxon lie to the public for years about climate change, how [...]