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Bill Gates: Climate Technology Miracles from a Visionary’s Imagination

Bill Gates: Climate Technology Miracles from a Visionary’s Imagination

Bill Gates is in touch with reality. He refuses to ride the global warming alarmist propaganda bandwagon. Bradford Plumer in The New Republic mentions the recent TED Conference in Long Beach where Gates ‘told the audience that climate change was the world’s most vexing problem, but that it would take “energy miracles” for the world to zero out [...]
Extra billion tons of CO2 emissions every year: caused by the obesity epidemic

Extra billion tons of CO2 emissions every year: caused by the obesity epidemic

According to Phil Edwards, a researcher from the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, “We need to do a lot more to reverse the global trend towards fatness. It is a key factor in the battle to reduce carbon emissions and slow climate change.” Edwards’ research found that ‘the average overweight person is responsible for an extra [...]
The Real Planetary Predicament: Overconsumption

The Real Planetary Predicament: Overconsumption

There is a popular notion that to effectively solve climate change and other environmental ills, the problem of ‘exponential population growth’ has to be necessarily solved. Strict birth control is touted to prevent doomsday. In the past, there had been concrete efforts to stem the burgeoning human population on the planet. Forced vasectomies [...]
Overconsumption: The Real Culprit in Environmental Degradation

Overconsumption: The Real Culprit in Environmental Degradation

The hard facts are astounding as the number of people on the planet quadrupled to six billion during the 20th century. The world’s richest people on the planet now number half a billion, and their activities account for half of all carbon dioxide emissions on the entire planet. People from the US, still the richest nation on earth, are responsible [...]
Environment and Economy: The Ties that Bind

Environment and Economy: The Ties that Bind

Barack Obama’s energy and environment cabinet has a noble goal to replace fossil fuels with renewable energy generation. His administration has realized that carbon is costly over the long haul. It is apparent that the incoming administration at the White House knows too well that environment, energy and economy are all tied up with one another. [...]