Articles by JMG
Let's live on the planet as if we intend to stay.
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The Musing Environmentalist highlights a keeper
Karen Street, who comments here regularly, runs an interesting blog of her own called Musing Environmentalist.
I was taken with a graphic she highlighted from an article in Mechanical Engineering magazine, representing the GHG emissions from various sources. Check it out (click for larger version):
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We had to destroy the village to make it a global village
The job of the PR industry: comforting the comfortable, afflicting the afflicted. Now on to protecting the feelings of the poor maligned air travel industry:
As part of the makeover, there's a short in-flight video, titled "Flying's a Wonderful Thing," that has been produced to ease consumer guilt over plane travel, and brochures have been printed. "Air transport made the global village a reality," one pamphlet says.
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A reality TV show that will knock your socks off
Crude: a great overview of how, when, where, and why oil is obtained, and a fascinating look at what happens when you burn a bunch of it real fast.
Think The End of Suburbia meets An Inconvenient Truth.
