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...existing provider (I should know - I did it last week). Proportions on the Continent are slightly higher, but there's clearly no rush to go green or - shudder - stop driving cars. Why such a disconnect between information and action? Part of the problem is that environmental advocates emit mixed messages. In mid-May, Britain's Guardian published a front-page story showing that five companies in Britain produce more CO2 pollution in a year than all the country's motorists combined. That's a strong argument for targeting industry, but the average reader could hardly be blamed for thinking...
...problems with Vermont Yankee, and nuclear power, in general, go beyond the risk of immediate catastrophe. Nuclear energy is often championed as the solution to pollution because, unlike fossil fuels, it does not emit greenhouse gases. Yet in order to enrich the uranium needed to produce nuclear energy, huge amounts of carbon dioxide are released into the environment. Furthermore, even during normal operation, power plants emit radioactive particles, including gases such as krypton, xenon, tritium, and argon, all of which can cause genetic diseases and gene mutations, not to mention iodine-131 (which causes thyroid cancer), strontium-90 (which causes...
...several times that she favors a “cap-and-trade” proposal like RGGI under which each industrial facility would be allocated a certain number of “emission credits,” with the total number of credits set by the government. Plants that emit less than their credit limit of greenhouse gases could sell their unused credits to other companies. Whatever the means of addressing climate change, Browner said that something must be done. “Inaction is something that EPA administrators understand [because they] have to deal with the consequences of inaction...
...might be expected to care about whether their new place increased our dependence on fossil fuels or used wood from destructively clear-cut forests. And if altruistic motives don't move them much, they certainly might care about the harm to themselves and their families from homebuilding materials that emit toxic chemicals into the air of their nice living rooms. Could it be that one reason those women on Desperate Housewives are so desperate is that their houses are full of polyvinyl chlorides? You might suspect there's even worse stuff in their breast implants, but still...
...everyone lived like theaverage Chinese or Indian, you wouldn't be reading about global warming. On a per capita basis, China and India emit far less greenhouse gas than energy-efficient Japan, environmentally scrupulous Sweden--and especially the gas-guzzling U.S. (The average American is responsible for 20 times as much CO2 emission annually as the average Indian.) There's only one problem: 2.4 billion people live in China and India, a great many of whom aspire to an American-style energy-intensive life. And thanks to the breakneck growth of the two countries' economies, they just might...