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...countries by a total of around 5 percent below their 1990 emissions. Any reduction in global emissions is, of course, commendable. However, it was always clear that even if implemented fully, the Kyoto targets would make the most minor of dents in this most major of problems. With the world??s largest carbon emitter, the United States, still steadfast in its opposition to Kyoto it is now evident that even the very meager targets set at Kyoto will not be met. In essence, history is likely to remember the Kyoto Protocol as a failure of both imagination...
...fossil-fuel dependence during the 21st century ends up with nearly three times the pre-industrial atmospheric carbon dioxide concentration by 2100—a trajectory that seems likely to have intolerable impacts on global climate long before then. Can that be avoided without similarly intolerable impacts on the world??s aspirations for economic prosperity...
...news is that progress is confined to less than half of the world??s population. More than a billion are trapped in unspeakable poverty, forced to survive on less than a dollar a day. The problem is particularly severe in sub-Saharan Africa. There, deadly diseases such as AIDS, tuberculosis, and malaria are on the rise. The quality of physical environments is in many instances on a path to ruin, reflecting unsustainable demands on soils, waters, and the biota imposed by peoples driven to survive in the present without the luxury of planning for the future...
...United States is the world??s largest emitter of carbon dioxide. With five percent of the world??s population, we account for 22 percent of emissions. Electricity generation, associated mainly with combustion of coal, accounts for 40 percent of US emissions. Transportation, fueled primarily by oil, is responsible for an additional 32 percent, with the balance due to a combination of home/office heating and cooling (11 percent) and various industrial processes (18 percent...
Moen agreed that “the waffles are what started it”—people began asking how to make what the cookbook calls the “World??s Tastiest Waffles...