[ View menu ]

Archive for 'Environment'

The Human Virus

Stumbled upon an animation with an environmental theme recently and made the mistake of glancing at the comments. It seems like whenever I do that I should add people to a potential hit list. For example the author of the comment that starts with “Environmentalists are more anti-human than any other ignorant -ism I have […]

Raise Prices to Save the World!

Not long ago there was a card shown on PostSecret that said “I wish energy prices would keep rising. People will never use less just because it’s right.”. I often feel the same way, from an environmental point of view it makes perfect sense. Make using resources more costly and people will tend to use […]

Ethanol Under Fire

As expected, the big push for ethanol production is being challenged at the highest levels. It was only a matter of time before this happened. They didn’t lash out against it initially when it was “just” forests being cut down and habitat devastated to make room for more fields, but now it started directly affecting […]

Earth Day 2008

I’m in no mood for anything else right now, but you can’t be in no mood to at least acknowledge Earth, and therefore Earth Day. More people should learn at least this simple thing, then see where can they go from there. I’m quite disappointed of myself, last year at least I did a little […]

Earth Hour 2008

Earth Hour starts just now for me. (Of course this is a delayed post, right now my computer’s unplugged.) It might have made more sense to set the same time for everyone instead of 8 PM local time in each place, but I guess it’d have been impractical as in some places it’d have been […]