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...customers. Watts is happy to see his refinery jump-start the economy of Grays Harbor, but he knows the benefits of Imperium's green, low-carbon fuel will be felt well beyond the town. "It just makes you feel good to work on something that's helping the planet," he says. "That matters...
...venue for a conference to save the world might seem counterintuitive: Bali's lush surroundings, after all, are beautiful to the point of distraction, and the more than 10,000 diplomats, environmentalists and journalists gathered on this island are here for the painstaking negotiations over one of the planet's most vexing challenges - global warming. Then again, it is far too hot outside at this time of year to lie about in the sun, and the delegates are all too aware that if they fail, here, to launch a viable road map to succeed the Kyoto Protocol, humanity may fall...
...recommendations in PCAP are radical, but not new: cut petroleum use in half by 2020, achieve average fuel economy of 50 mpg, shift the federal government to carbon neutrality. But what makes PCAP particularly impressive is the way it turns the question of climate change away from saving the planet, and toward saving the country. Global warming is too important to be left to the environmentalists - it's a national security issue, an economic issue, even a moral issue. That's the kind of language that can appeal not only to traditional greens but to Republicans, and make climate change...
While the insights you reported are astounding, science is unable to address morality with any degree of certainty. Better that scientists stay within scientific parameters. Although they accurately describe the mysterious condition of the "planet's most noble creatures," they have not moved one iota beyond the ancient biblical description of beings made in the image...
What's the worst thing about being the funniest man on Earth? -Dave Collins, MelbourneDave, The worst thing is that very few people on that planet agree with you. People say to me, "Everyone loves The Office." Well, no, they don't. More people hate The Office than like it. Beauty is in the eye of the beholder, and some people don't find me beautiful...