Huh?: Firms warned biodiversity crisis will be "on a par" with financial crisis - 27 Apr 2009 - BusinessGreen.com

A new EU wide system of "ecosystem accounting" will be required if Europe is to halt biodiversity loss that threatens to have an impact on the economy at least "on a par with the current financial crisis".

That is the stark message delivered by the head of the European Environment Agency (EEA) to a European Commission conference on biodiversity in Athens today, who also warned that a target to halt biodiversity loss across the union by next year will be missed.

Call to Action Against GE

I’m troubled by your use of GE’s considerable lobbying resources to expand the growth and influence of government over my life. Specifically, GE is supporting so-called cap-and-trade legislation that would increase energy prices, increase job losses and result in slower economic growth. In addition, the legislation would lead to a massive government bureaucracy and loss of individual freedom.

I’m concerned that you are using GE’s media empire to manipulate public opinion. NBC News and MSNBC are slanted to favor the left-wing political agenda and network programming is skewed to promote - without attribution - GE’s “green” business goals.

Tim Ball: Spending billions on a non-existent problem

There are still no holes in the ozone but the area of thinning over Antarctica continues to vary due to natural conditions. The claim is still made that the actions invoked by the Montreal Protocol saved the day. Even a brief look shows this is not correct. What it shows is a smaller example of spending billions of dollars, deeply disrupting people’s lives and economies, to solve a nonexistent problem. It provides the modus operandi of exploitation for political purposes in this era of environmental hysteria that parallel the CO2 situation. Now Obama and the US Congress are considering spending trillions and passing legislation that will deeply disrupt every aspect of people’s lives and economies to solve another non-existent problem. It confirms the adage that, “Every time history repeats itself, the price goes up.”