Diesel Civil Trust

marfdrat:

Here’s a great example of how the Government, in its quest to save the Earth, and us -the benighted masses- from our dimwitted selves, took something efficient and elegant in its simplicity, and rendered it, well - less effective.  Now apply this lesson to something more complicated, like health care.  Mixaphorically speaking, I’d rather not be what ends up on the bottom of the plunger when they get though.

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The Economist’s deputy editor on ways to address climate change and why it must be dealt with globally or not at all.

Really listen to this podcast—listen to the tone of the speaker’s voice and what she’s saying. It smacks of a global enforcement body, because democratically elected officials have a “short shelf life.” Emphasis mine.

tsparks:

suitep:

A picture taken on November 30, 2009 and released on December 3, 2009 by Greenpeace shows US President Barack Obama on an advertisement reading “I’m Sorry, we could have stopped catastrophic climate change … we didn’t”. The posters with heads of state have been placed all over Copenhagen International Airport by the global coalition, tcktcktck.org and Greenpeace calling on world leaders to secure a fair, ambitious and binding deal at the Copenhagen Climate Summit.
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tsparks:

suitep:

A picture taken on November 30, 2009 and released on December 3, 2009 by Greenpeace shows US President Barack Obama on an advertisement reading “I’m Sorry, we could have stopped catastrophic climate change … we didn’t”. The posters with heads of state have been placed all over Copenhagen International Airport by the global coalition, tcktcktck.org and Greenpeace calling on world leaders to secure a fair, ambitious and binding deal at the Copenhagen Climate Summit.

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After several false starts, 2010 finally could be the year when smart meters go global. The technology, which lets energy companies and consumers more closely monitor their electricity consumption, has many champions. The U.S. government has earmarked $4.5 billion from the stimulus package to subsidize the rollout of smart meters nationwide. European Union politicians are pushing hard to connect 80% of the region’s homes and businesses to smart meters by 2020. Even emerging giants like India and China aim to install the technology in new buildings.

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