Instead of asking how much cap-and-trade costs, why not ask how much it saves? (via @nature_org)
- “Arguing over the minimal costs of cap-and-trade, however, keeps us focused on the impact to 1 percent of the economy, while ignoring the mounting costs to the entire economy of continuing to do nothing. “
American Samoa, unlike California, bans plastic bags (just say no)
- California, unfortunately, just rejected a similar proposal.
New Oil Rig Explosion in Gulf of Mexico
- The platform is still burning and the Coast Guard has reported an oil sheen has appeared.
Tigers in the wild numbering fewer than 3,000: WWF has launched a new roar of support
- “The Tiger Roar Campaign, available at www.panda.org/roar, is an online application where the public can add their own roars in many different ways, whether solo or in a group of friends, family, or with their colleagues. “
- “Users can upload pictures of themselves getting all “roary,” shoot video of their roars, and upload them to YouTube or Vimeo, and then link them in. For a simpler approach, users can even text message their roars.”
Late 1980s total world catch topped at around eighty-five million tons. This milestone- ‘peak fish’
- “Cod, once so plentiful off the coast of Newfoundland that they could be scooped up in baskets, are now scarce. The same goes for halibut, haddock, swordfish, marlin, and skate; it’s been calculated that stocks of large predatory fish have declined by ninety per cent in the past half century.”
- “Somewhere in the range of a hundred million salmon larvae used to hatch in the Connecticut River each year. Now the number’s a lot easier to pin down: it’s zero.”
- “Huge swaths of the sea (need to) be set aside as so-called ‘marine protected areas,’ or M.P.A.s, where most commercial activity would be prohibited.”
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