All your personal efforts to live more sustainably do not make any difference to the world’s environment.
That’s the assertion environmental writer Derrick Jensen makes in his recent article “Forget Shorter Showers,” published in Orion magazine.
The industrial economy is so large, and so much the source of our planet’s environmental woes, Jensen argues, that even if all individuals reduced their carbon footprint to zero, climate change and other catastrophes would still ravage the...
Position Statement on United Nations Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen
By World Energy Council
Energy is at the core of economic, social and environmental development.
Moving towards a low carbon economy in a context in which we see a major demand shift towards Africa, Asia, Latin America and the Middle East and, in which 1.6 billion people strive for access to modern energy will require strong and effective policies to be in place.
Climate change and energy security are global...
By Suchin Gururangan
With harbor waters so clean the Danish swim in them, it’s no surprise that Copenhagen will be the site of the 2009 United Nations Conference on Climate Change in early December. One would think that the spirit of environmental initiative would pierce delegates’ talks among conference tables in such an eco-conscious surrounding, but recent developments have suggested otherwise. Instead, individual communities worldwide are emerging as the policy leaders when it comes to...
Humanity’s efforts to curb climate change amount to too little, too late.
Climatologists are increasingly sounding this fatalistic message. Many experts say policymakers must cut global CO2 emissions in half within the next 50 years to avoid a climatic tipping point, while others contend we have already passed that fateful point. A full two years ago now, the United Nation’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) released a sobering study stating the inevitability of...
Green is lost. It is dazed and confused. Despite the good and noble intentions behind it, the attribution and its related movements generally have fallen short of any depth of meaning for sound environmental practice.
To have a “green” attitude or a “green” position has become misleading and down right false to a very wide spectrum of users. As a result, many of the nobler businesses and efforts are thus affected.
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