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...full impact of all our driving, shipping and flying on the climate, and found that transport accounts for around 16% of all man-made carbon emissions - with auto fuel taking the largest chunk. That percentage will only increase over the coming decades - unless we can switch to something cleaner...
...push the transition to a cleaner, more efficient economy - the Plan B economy - Brown argues for a worldwide carbon tax to be phased in at $20 per ton each year between 2008 and 2020, topping out at $240 per ton. That might seem excessive, but Brown points out that even a carbon tax higher than $240 per ton wouldn't cover all the environmental and health costs of burning fossil fuels, from climate change to air pollution-related illnesses. And while it's difficult to imagine any politician standing up for such a tax, he reminds us that we already...
...Scary Living Green Re Lisa Takeuchi Cullen's "It's Inconvenient Being Green" [Dec. 3]: Ever since I visited Asia 25 years ago, I've known how to go without toilet paper - and have never been so clean! As long as we have soap and water, we can emerge cleaner than ever. So, Lisa, help save a tree! Roberto Lamoureux, SURIGAO DEL NORTE, THE PHILIPPINES...
...Lisa Takeuchi Cullen's "It's Inconvenient Being Green" [Dec. 3]: Ever since I visited Asia 25 years ago, I've known how to go without toilet paper--and have never been so clean! As long as we have soap and water, we can emerge cleaner than ever. So, Lisa, help save a tree...
...fixes that will decarbonize our lives. But the deeper problem may be how - and where - we live our lives. The dominant pattern of development in America - large houses and sprawling, auto-dependent suburbs - requires a heavy input of fossil fuels and an output of carbon emissions. The adoption of cleaner technologies will take us part of the way, but what we really need to do is change our habitat, not just for the environmental benefits, but for our health, lifestyle and happiness...