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...Malcolm Turnbull "We need to have all of our energy being zero-emission." Experience: Environment and Water Minister since Jan. '07 Charismatic republican and investment banker on the political rise - if he retains his marginal Sydney seat. Said after the 1999 republic referendum that monarchist Howard had "broken this nation's heart." Has swiftly mastered a key portfolio but drawn criticism for approving a new pulp mill in Tasmania. Believed to support ratification of the Kyoto Protocol, in contrast to government position...
...global carbon emissions - mostly from coal-fired power stations - and that share is shrinking as Chinese and Indian emissions soar. No matter what Canberra does, the effects on the world's climate "are likely to be extremely small," says Australian National University economist Alex Robson, "almost certainly zero." Environment Minister Malcolm Turnbull argues, with Howard, that climate change cannot be addressed without coordinated action by all major emitters. But Labor, he says, takes the view that "we must purify ourselves, regardless of how poor it makes us to become pure...
...that the data can teach us, keep in mind that the nature of a ranking masks certain economic realities of a globalized world. The ability of countries to raise their citizens' standard of living is not a zero-sum game. Nearly 200 years ago, Ricardo gave a detailed lesson about comparative advantage: when two economies interact, they both can benefit even if one is more advanced across the board. That's why South Korea invests in North Korea, which is in some respects an economic black hole. At the end of the day, both can be winners...
...prove. Baseball may be flush with $6 billion in revenues, and Rodriguez is coming off another monster season, but every GM can legitimately make the same case: the Rangers wildly overpaid for him back then. How many division titles did the Rangers win with Rodriguez on the team? Zero. The Yankees traded for that contract after the '03 season (he was set to make about $27 million per year on the last three years of that deal before he opted out), and how many World Series titles did they win with A-Rod? Zero. Meanwhile, the Colorado Rockies and Cleveland...
...France's nationwide transport strike Wednesday will look like just another in a long line of work stoppages by French workers and their notoriously militant labor unions. Here on Planet France, however, those protests over proposed pension cutbacks are being viewed as the first major battle in a wider zero-sum war - the outcome of which will determine the fate of President Nicolas Sarkozy's vast reform program...