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Like the U.S., Sweden is addicted to oil. Unlike the U.S., it has a plan to kick the habit--and a deadline. By 2020, says Mona Sahlin, Minister for Sustainable Development, the country will no longer be dependent on fossil fuels. "By then," she declares, "no home will need oil for heating, no motorist will be obliged to use petrol [gasoline] as the sole option available...
...Force he set up in 2004, HSBC plans to boost investment in energy efficiency to cut emissions by 5% by 2007, using measures like automatically switching off staff PCs after hours. The bank will also be buying more of its electricity from green sources-the kind not generated from fossil fuels. Once it has come to grips with its own direct impacts, Sullivan suggests, HSBC may start offering advice to other firms interesting in offsetting their own emissions...
...there are still staunch deniers who would prefer to listen to a science fiction writer [Michael Crichton, author of "State of Fear," which challenges global warming science] rather than a real scientist. It is perhaps not a coincidence that the strongest deniers among the politicians have connections to the fossil fuel industry...
Central to his argument was the idea that developing nations disproportionately suffer the consequences of developed countries’ wasteful energy policies. Podesta said that the countries of sub-Saharan Africa, largely too poor to afford the fossil fuels that power most of the developed world, bore the brunt of the climatic change caused by the burning of oil. These countries suffer famine due to lowered rainfall and crop yields as a result of climate change...
...Increasing demand for oil from America, from India and China, relative to a supply that’s not keeping up with demand, causes our fuel prices to go up,” he said. “And so, to the extent that we can reduce demand for fossil fuels, it will help the American consumer...