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The Yes Men Strike

Friday, June 15, 2007

This is cool: “Without oil, at least four billion people would starve. This spiral of trouble would make the oil infrastructure utterly useless” – unless their bodies could be turned into fuel. That was the satirical message delivered by two corporate ethics activists to the Gas and Oil Exposition 2007 in Calgary, Alberta. The activists, […]

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Intended consequences

Friday, June 15, 2007

What a surprise. We’ve all heard of the law of unintended consequences, but what about all of the obvious consequences of stupid policy, such as the possibility that the United States, with ample Democratic support (see, e.g., here ) , will try to replace carbon based fuels with biofuels, which may themselves do little to […]

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Isn’t this getting tiresome

Thursday, May 31, 2007

George Bush has just announced yet another non-binding environmental initiative. US President George W. Bush said Thursday he would urge major industrialized nations at a summit next week to join a new global framework for fighting climate change after the Kyoto Protocol lapses. Environmental groups immediately criticized the plan as vague and based on non-binding […]

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New Real Estate

Wednesday, April 25, 2007

I haven’t seen anything about this in the U.S. Press, though maybe I’ve just missed it, so I’ll pass it along just to spread a little cheer. According to the Independent, there is some new ocean front property available in Greenland: The map of Greenland will have to be redrawn. A new island has appeared […]

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