food, enviro, climate
Stop cutting down the forest or fucking tigers will eat you. No, really:
Haven’t you ever thought there was something a little funny about our obsession with the softest possible toilet paper? It’s one of those metaphor things. Anyway, the NY Times agrees:
More about your food- it’s really worthwhile for the link to the Michael Pollan article from last year:
A dollar will buy 1200 calories of cookies or chips but only 250 calories of carrots. If you don’t have a lot of money, the most rational thing to do is buy junk food to get the most calories for your buck.
Obama’s going to get lots of mileage out of just repealing stupid shit left behind by Bush:
Coolest year since 2000, sure, but still one of the ten warmest since 1880:
- 2008 was Earth’s coolest year since 2000
- Cold winter doesn’t buck global warming trend
(by way of ENN)
swissinfo: Humans are incredibly adaptable. Is there not a way for us to just live with a warming climate?
H.W.: The only problem with global change is that we have enough money in these northern continents to adapt but what will people do in the not-so-developed areas like Africa? They don’t have enough water today and the available water will decrease. In policy, we really have to deal with this situation and help these other countries. If we don’t help with our technology and do not find the best solution we will see huge problems in the future.
Speaking of which…
A report by the UK’s Institution of Mechanical Engineers will next month call for governments to accept that climate change is now inevitable. Strategies must be put in place now to protect our infrastructure from its worst effects, alongside existing efforts to reduce emissions, it will argue.
In a month’s time IMechE will launch its three-pronged plan to a select group of MPs in an urgent bid to start implementing long-term adaptation.
And here’s the report. I haven’t read it yet.
