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Unfortunately, environmentalists?? definition of “waste” is all-inclusive. If you use less of something after it becomes less convenient, you must have been using too much of it before. One example is Kirkland House, which has only a few dispensers in the entire dining hall and whose students, miraculously, use fewer napkins. The administration calls this phenomenon a decrease in waste. But students use fewer napkins because fewer napkins are available; we don’t know for certain that the change eliminated superfluous napkins...
...accept environmentalists?? position. How would their policies affect our standard of living? The American Clean Energy and Security Act of 2009, which the House of Representatives passed in June, requires Americans to lower their carbon dioxide emissions by 83 percent below 2005 levels in 40 years. “That means when you are 61, you will be allowed the average per capita emissions of an American in 1867,” Michaels said. He added that if every country under the Kyoto treaty adopted similar measures, we would prevent just seven percent of the warming that...
...from Brown in 1995, Werbach, then 23, became the youngest-ever president of the Sierra Club. He later founded Act Now, which advised companies on how to improve their sustainability. The firm eventually merged with global marketing firm Saatchi & Saatchi. At his talk, Werbach described becoming disillusioned with many environmentalists?? goals. He told of a time when he met a female biologist who prioritized her desire to reduce noise pollution affecting wildlife over concerns about human suffering. “I’m talking to people who say, ‘I’m going...
...flight across the Atlantic and am ‘virtually’ half-dead and only ‘virtually’ royal.” The director of the Medical School center that presented the award, Eric S. Chivian ’64, later called the environmentalists?? criticisms of Charles “a rather low blow that really missed the point of the entire award.” “He’s really been an environmental champion, and rather than focus on his flight, they should have focused on his achievements...
...Marshall Institute—which is funded by Exxon Mobile and other private interests—suggest that the current climatic change is a natural phase in climate history, rather than induced by carbon emissions. But Schrag disagrees with this line of thought, which in recent years has countered environmentalists?? claims of permanent environmental degradation. “We can prove, using modern data, that the increase [in C02 concentration] is not part of a natural cycle,” Schrag said. Schrag also said that for the last 800,000 years or more CO2 concentration...
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