Tuesday links: Food rules, global warming, and the science of climate change
Rolling Stone uncovers the polluters and deniers holding back efforts to fight global warming, Germany steps up its emissions cutting game, and Michael Pollan has some new easy rules for healthy eating.
Photo: The Busy Brain/Flickr Mojib Latif, a leading climatologist from Leibniz Institute at Kiel University in Germany wants climate change deniers to stop misusing his research to question the scientific consensus on climate change.
"If something is right to do, it's right even if no one else does it" nicely sums up the effort Germany is making in reducing their CO2 emissions. Treehugger writes about how the country raised their initial target of reducing emissions by 30% by 2020 up to 40%.
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The call to reduce the use of coals is valid for western countries but unfortunately, coal statistics show developing economies are more likely to increase their use of coal in coming years because of its affordability and to meet increasing demands for electricity and steel for the coal industry. www.coalportal.com
We are going the wrong way. If the goal were really survival and not control of the nations, we would back out of our unnecessary employment lifestyle. It caused our world problems. The employment lifestyle is destroying the world and our health, physically, emotionally and spiritually. We are making jobs just for the sake of making jobs, seeking riches while destroying ourselves. The only sustainable and reasonable solution is to "retire." We can turn to a garden paradise lifestyle with.... More
God warned against nations joining for protection and prosperity in Psalms 1 and 2, II Chronicles 16:7-12; and 20:35-37. It is counter-productive and opens a nation up to deceptions, corruption, abuses and delays.
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A colossal failure to speak truth to power is allowing the most greedy among us to ruin Earth's environment and deplete its resources.
If only the human community could become as deeply curious and openly communicative about what the human species is doing in the world we inhabit as we are about the deceitful activities of wealthy and powerful people. Formidable human-induced global threats to human wellbeing and environmental health are just as evident as the conspicuous behaviors of the.... More
