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...depression? Morgan says it's too soon to tell: it depends on how long people remain unemployed. A full-blown recession lasting three or four years or longer would be cause for concern. Morgan cites increased rates of depression and suicide in British cities that relied on steel and coal manufacturing in the mid-1980s, when factories started shutting down permanently. And the suddenness of the current crash doesn't make things easier. Former Lehman Brothers employees, he says, "have some emotional catching up to do," because they hardly saw what was coming and went right into the euphoria phase...
Polluters such as coal power plants and automobiles have shouldered the brunt of the attention on climate change. It helps that you can actually see them spewing black exhaust. But people often forget that when they plug in their home electronics - whether it's a jumbo flat-screen TV or an iPod - the electricity that juices those devices has a carbon footprint too. As the amount of electronics in our homes continues to increase - half of American households now own three TVs, up from 11% in 1975 - it becomes more and more important that they are energy efficient. Ditto...
...Poland, eight poorer Eastern European countries quietly but firmly said the emission cutting plans were too expensive. The eight are heavily reliant on coal and argue that they have achieved "the vast majority" of the E.U.'s CO2 reductions by shutting down heavily polluting old industrial plants in the 1990s...
Indoor air pollution poses an exceptionally high risk in China, where more than 70 percent of households use solid fuels such as wood, biomass, and coal for heating and cooking. China, where over half of all men smoke, is also a leading market both for world tobacco production and for cigarette consumption...
...company commits less that 0.2 percent of its assets per year to environmental sustainability, while spending nearly 100 times as much money on “dirty energy.” “Bank of America is guilty of being one of the biggest funders of the coal industry,” said Alysha Suley, a representative from Rising Tide Boston. “In the Appalachian mountains, these coal companies are contaminating the water supplies in mountain communities, filling them with all kinds of carcinogens and toxic waste.” While protesters decried Bank of America...