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George Marshall wrote the following on Thursday about the Live Earth concerts: Live Earth will undoubtedly create a buzz and interest around climate change. But I do not believe it will produce significant change because it fundamentally misunderstands the challenge. The reason we are not doing enough about climate change is not because we don't know [...]
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If so, big irony on your part. From the July 4 Guardian story: Consumers' love of hi-tech gadgets is set to undermine attempts to curb the UK's carbon emissions, the Energy Saving Trust (EST) claimed today. The proliferation of home entertainment equipment such as flatscreen TVs, digital radios and laptops in homes means that by [...]
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From the New Yorker article: The Taliban have made a concerted comeback in the past two years; they are the de-facto authority in much of the Pashtun south and east, and have recently spread their violence to parts of the north as well. The debilitating and corrupting effects of the opium trade on the government [...]
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China is a key player in an illegal trade that could push some tropical hardwood species to extinction, say activists. However, the West deserves a black eye for providing a market for the finished product. From the BBC story: China is at the heart of a trade that is pushing some tropical trees towards extinction, environmental [...]
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From the BBC: I have spent some time resting in the two days since I was freed, and I have only just switched on my computer. These are the first words that I have written since I was captured four months ago, and I wanted to dedicate them to all those many tens-of-thousands of people [...]