UN Goes Off-Mission For Plastic Bags

You really gotta hand it to the folks who came up with the organizational theory known as “mission drift.” You know it: a big organization is created to address a particular (and usually pressing, important) problem. The problem is addressed or becomes a fundamentally unsettled debate and the organization tweaks its mission, expands its, addresses new problems to attain new funding.

Enter: plastic bags. The United Nations, created decades ago under the lofty goal of preventing world-destroying wars, has found its effectiveness there questionable at best. But good news! They can save the world from problems such as plastic grocery bags:

Wales kids told, "It's your climate [scam]"

Young people from across Wales are being given the chance to have their say on what world leaders decide on climate change in crucial talks in Copenhagen.

Countdown to Copenhagen is an event being held at the Liberty Stadium in Swansea on July 1 for youngsters to say what they think should be done in Wales and across the world to face up to the problem.

Environment Minister Jane Davidson is looking for 300 under 25s to attend so their views can be passed on to world leaders in December at the United Nations Climate Change Conference in the Danish capital.

Eight Reasons for Farmers to Support Global Warming [Fraud]

U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Tom Vilsack called reductions of carbon dioxide a "new income source [that could] change the old ways of supporting farms." He has urged farmers to seize the economic opportunities from reducing greenhouse gas pollution and "not to be fearful of this future."