The BBC presents “Climate Challenge”, a game where you are president of the European Nations and must tackle climate change AND stay popular enough with the voters to remain in office. Up to the challenge? Earth’s future is in your hands.
Thanks to Al for the tip.
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I read with interest a recent article in The Independent titled: Saving the Planet – Empty Gestures. Here is the first paragraph of that article:
At Christmas I was given a copy of the book of the film An Inconvenient Truth, by the American politician Al Gore. It was from two people. One of them drives an SUV and both are frequent fliers. I was given the present at a gathering under recessed halogen spotlights, a popular system that, typically, doubles the electricity consumed by a room’s lighting and greatly increases ceiling heat-loss. Few in the room were wearing anything that, by the standards of earlier ages, could have been considered winter clothing. Some of the food on the table – figs and blueberries – originated several thousand miles away. And, while tap-water in the area is quaffable, bottled mineral water from France accompanied our celebration.
It goes on in a similar vein, I recommend a read of the whole article. So imagine my surprise when I came across this entry at Hugg:
The Independent headlines with “Made in Britain, Dumped in China – How our waste causes death and disease 6,000 miles from home” draws to the public’s attention to how the UK’s waste plastic packaging is shipped halfway around the world to China. Here’s the hypocrisy; the printed version of the newspaper runs a quarter page advertisement; “Detox Your Body – a free bottle of Vittel water when you buy The Independent newspaper”. Where does The Independent newspaper think that the thousands of empty plastic bottles from this promotion will end-up? – My money is on China!
Oh the irony of it all!
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Thanks to the 14,000 activists who appealed to online mega-retailer Amazon to stop exploiting a threatened species just to make a few quid, Amazon have agreed to remove Shark Fin soup from it’s virtual shelves.
Shark finning involves cutting off the shark’s fins while it is still alive, and then tossing the body back into to the sea, dead or dying. Up to 73 million sharks are killed every year to support the international shark fin market. This so-called delicacy exploits a population that is already threatened with extinction. – Oceana – Protecting the world’s oceans
Thanks to Mick for the tip.
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