Posted on 03/08/2009 6:51:24 PM PDT by Eric Blair 2084
....cut the watermelon....Green on the outside, Red on the inside.
But where greens failed, the global recession succeeded all too well. In November, the plant ceased production. "The economic crisis," says Marina Rikhvanova, the head of the environmental group Baikal Wave, worked "like magic."
It is no coincidence that some of the dirtiest industrial operations are falling victim to the global recession. Over the past two decades, much of the world's manufacturing moved to where pollution standards are little more than mild suggestions. Since small, corner-cutting, inefficient facilities tend to both flout pollution laws and be most vulnerable to a sudden drop in demand, the global recession has hit such operations especially hard. Thousands of factories in China's Pearl River Delta have shut their doors since late last year, for instance; output of autos, electronics and other goods from factories in Mexico's Ciudad Juárez, Monterrey and Toluca has fallen so sharply that the amount of cargo trucked across the U.S. border has dropped 40 percent. In India, enough small steel-rolling mills around Delhi have closed that levels of sulfur dioxide (which forms acid rain) fell 85 percent in October 2008 compared with a year earlier. The recession is bringing a green dividend in the developed world, too. Reduced economic activity is projected to cut Europe's emissions of carbon dioxide, the chief man-made greenhouse gas, by 100 million tons in 2009, and the United States' by about the same amount.
Recession is not exactly a long-term environmental strategy, obviously. The challenge is to use the downturn to deemphasize manufacturing in favor of cleaner economic activity, and to reengineer what survives so that when the economy revs up it's not at the environment's expense.
(Excerpt) Read more at newsweek.com ...
Good news....Sending humanity back into caveman days and fellow citizens out of work is good for your cause. You love the planet, trees and animals.....but you HATE people. You will kill them before they are even born to save the carribou.
Bad news....Anyone who is actually paying attention now understands your agenda and may not like it.
Gee, scared me there for a moment.....I thought it was TRUE.
This is From NEWSWEEK...ROFLMAO....LOL...
Propaghanda. Build some more Coal Plants, Please.
Get people to accept less manufacturing activity, economic stagnation, and a lower standard of life so that they can stop killing Mother Earth ... now there’s a blue-ribbon strategy for ya!
Well put!
I get so tired of this nonsense. Our environment is cleaner than a hundred years ago. Our technical expertise is improving all the time. These greenies have no idea what urban areas were like 100 years ago, heating was provided by burning coal in boilers, horses crapped in the streets, water filtration was done by drawing the water from further away.
Technology, brilliant people and capitalism is the solution.
Statism and lies is not.
If you allow people to make a profit at something they will find a way to do it.
I have a friend who is a molecular biologist and teaches med students. He loves to point out that it is the outliers who come up with the great discoveries. Einstein couldn't even get a teaching position. The point being the statists are the ones holding down the innovative people.
EUREKA!!
Have you seen the 2012 Cadillac Pelosi? Car and Driver's Car of the Year!
“The challenge is to use the downturn to deemphasize manufacturing in favor of cleaner economic activity, and to reengineer what survives so that when the economy revs up it’s not at the environment’s expense.”
Yes, by all means, let’s “de-emphasize” manufacturing. We can simply go back to using rocks and sticks to get things done.
These people are certifiable.
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