It was one of the dumbest “green” ideas ever proposed: Convert millions of acres of cropland into fields for growing ethanol
from corn, then burn fossil fuels to harvest the ethanol, expending more energy to extract the fuel than you get from the fuel itself! Meanwhile, sit back and proclaim you’ve achieved a monumental green victory [...]
Part of the sanctuary overlaps Australian territorial waters, and at least one Australian journalist isn’t holding back her criticism. The Japanese Institute for Cetacean Research counters that coverage of its “research” is biased and that the mission has been subject to dangerous and illegal harassment and “terrorism” on the part of the activists. Australian philosopher [...]
Professor Jared Diamond giving a Deakin Lecture in Melbourne, sums why some civilizations flourish, decline and then die, in his new book, Collapse.What makes them fail and what lessons can we learn from their history? Is there enough time to avoid the obvious environmental perils of our age?
There have been surprises in working on my [...]
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