Imperial Valley News - Governor Schwarzenegger Discusses Earth Day 2009 in Weekly Radio Address

[Schwarzenegger] Did you know that air-drying your clothes for 6 months saves 700 pounds of carbon dioxide? [Saving you the expense of offsetting the emissions via about a buck in bogus carbon offsets?]

Taipei: Trust Nick's Stern's judgment?

Nicholas Stern, a former chief economist and senior vice president of the World Bank, has said that global warming is not a natural occurrence: It is a man-made disaster and the most serious and urgent challenge humanity faces.

If we continue to let the government turn farmland that people rely on for their livelihoods into concrete deserts to develop high carbon-emission industries, if we continue to remain silent as the government allows power plants to expand their facilities year after year based on inflated power usage statistics, and if we continue to accept excessive logging and over-reliance on petrochemical products, Taiwan will not escape censure and international sanctions for its high pollution and carbon emissions, just as it will not escape the consequences of global warming.