Word: co2
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...thousands of years, the human race has spread out across the Earth, scaling mountains and plying the oceans, planting crops and building highways, raising skyscrapers and atmospheric CO2 levels, and observing, with tremendous and unflagging enthusiasm, the Biblical injunction to be fruitful and multiply across our world's every last nook, cranny and subdivision ... So, starting in 2014, Virgin founder Richard Branson and Google co-founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin will be leading hundreds of users on one of the grandest adventures in human history: Project Virgle, the first permanent human colony on Mars...
...average American produces about 20 tons of the major greenhouse gas carbon dioxide (CO2) every year. That might sound like a lot - and Americans do have among the biggest carbon footprints in the world - but the entire world emits around 27 billion tons of CO2 each year, through transportation, electricity use, deforestation. Look at those numbers for a moment, and you'll realize there's very little that any of us can do on an individual level to stop climate change. Live like a monk, take away your 20 tons - stop breathing if you'd like - and you'll barely...
Nonetheless, the position of Evangelicals in general (of whom Southern Baptists represent a sizable piece) has been swinging ever greener. Back in 2006, megapastor Rick Warren signed onto a statement calling for a reduction in CO2 emissions. More recently, old-line Evangelical leaders, such as James Dobson and Gary Bauer, tried to oust Richard Cizik, the head lobbyist of the National Association of Evangelicals, who has fueled attempts to rally conservative Christians to the environmental cause; but Cizik's organization, while never fully supporting his mission, refused to drop him. Cizik is pleased with Merritt's declaration. "That resolution last...
...This all sounds egalitarian in impulse and wonderfully eco-friendly (even if Livingstone's staff have placed a large bouquet of exotic flowers, fresh off a plane, on the desk where he will sign off on the CO2-saving scheme). So why am I less than enthused by the announcement? Full disclosure: sitting in my garage is the kind of car that the mayor wants kept off the streets...
...national fuel bill sets 35 mpg as a federal fuel economy floor, not a ceiling - and in any case, California officials contend that their rules would require at least 36 mpg by 2016, with room to grow. The idea that there would suddenly be a "patchwork" of state CO2 regulations seems unlikely as well, since only California has put forward its own standards, with 16 other states ready to adopt Sacramento's rules, in line with California's role as a national leader on environmental regulation. And several recent court cases have recognized the right of states to regulate CO2...