[The question looms: Why don't Richard Lindzen or Freeman Dyson ever try to win people over by stripping naked and riding around on bicycles?]
A group of cyclists have taken their gear off and gone for a bike ride around Canberra to draw attention to the issue of climate change.Can a Law Firm Solve Global Warming? - PR.com
About 100 people took part in the World Naked Bike Ride event that also aims to raise awareness of the dangers cyclists face on the road.
Many participants painted their bodies and decorated their bikes with political messages calling for climate change action
Orlando, FL, March 21, 2010 --(PR.com)-- If we could solve global warming in court, many legal professionals would jump at the chance. Unfortunately, the fight against global warming is an issue larger than any court of law, but advocates of the environment such as the Azam Law Firm in Lake Mary, Florida, are taking a different strategy.The meat-free way to a healthier planet - The National Newspaper
Professor James Lovelock, the controversial creator of the Gaia hypothesis (basically the idea that our planet is a living, self-regulating system and quite capable of looking after itself, thank you), has a very simple message for mankind if we are not to disappear in the fog of our own CO2 emissions.Global warming: A restatement of the real problem
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In 2006 it was estimated that the worldwide meat industry contributed 18 per cent of all greenhouse gas emissions. This figure was revised in 2009 by World Bank scientists, who put it at 51 per cent.
It is not headline-making news; this information has been out there for years. However, given the current economy, the fact that the simple act of reducing our intake of beef burgers could wipe $20 trillion (Dh73.45 trillion) off the cost of fighting climate change makes switching to a veggie burger every now and then seem pretty compelling.
What is the real problem we're trying to solve?
It is not climate change.
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Regardless of your politics, you can easily see that the most energy intensive initiative undertaken in the past 10 years was the invasion of Iraq. That's not a sufficient reason to be for or against that war or a military in general, but if our nations acted more sensibly, the great good of fewer wars would be supplemented by a lesser good of less energy powering tanks and cruise missiles.
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