What a great, graphic article on this on Treehugger. per capita energy consumption is absolutely booming from a historical perspective, and that boom, of course, has been powered overwhelmingly with fossil fuels.
Category Archives: One Planet
Key global problems
Over-consumption in rich countries and rapid population growth in the poorest both need to be tackled to put society on a sustainable path, a report says. An expert group convened by the Royal Society spent nearly two years reading evidence … Continue reading
Cement production CO2 to fuel !
Pond Biofuels Takes CO2 From Cement Kiln, Grows Algae And Turns It Into Biofuel, that then feeds the cement Kiln’s :-) http://www.treehugger.com/renewable-energy/pond-biofuels-takes-co2-cement-kiln-grows-algae-and-turns-it-biofuel.html?campaign=daily_nl To make cement, you cook calcium carbonate at high temperature, producing 4% of the world’s carbon dioxide in … Continue reading
Top 1% of UK earners pay almost 30% of all income taxes
The 47 billion they pay is more than the Treasury raises from Company profits and is enough to fund about one third of the welfare state. Just 308,000 fall into this group. Since 2000 the share of tax revenue paid … Continue reading
There simply is no credible scientific alternative to the theory that humans are warming the atmosphere.
An interesting article by New Scientist on how it may be that organisations are using tobacco company tactics to say climate change isn’t being influenced by mankind. There is the issue, that their isn’t scientific consensus as to the level … Continue reading
The scale of things – VERY cool
http://htwins.net/scale2/