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What would GDP look like if it considered that industry tends to destroy the planet?
2014-08-30 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Fast Company: Considering that it's the basic yardstick by which we measure the health of our economy, gross domestic product (GDP) is pretty flawed. Critics have pointed out for decades that GDP fails to measure consequences of industry, which can in turn impede economic growth. (Think about, say, climate change, which promises to eviscerate certain cash crops.) GDP just doesnt tell the whole story. But what if we factored air pollution into the equation? What if we actually calculated the premature mortality...
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UK rewards polluters & locks up people who want to save the planet
2014-08-28 13:45:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: What if, instead of giving Marie Curie and Alexander Fleming Nobel prizes for their life-saving work on radiation and penicillin, they'd been thrown in jail? Or, instead of being awarded the Grand Croix of the Légion d'honneur for his work on the germ theory of disease, Louis Pasteur was imprisoned like Napoleon on Elba? It would be perverse to return the favour of great, public works by depriving people of their freedom. Yet that is just what we're doing in Britain right now. The contributions...
Russia warms faster than rest of planet and sees disease, drought, and forest fires as a result
2014-08-27 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Quartz: When Vladimir Putin declined to support the Kyoto Protocol, a treaty to limit carbon emissions, he famously quipped that higher temperatures might actually benefit Russia since its people would have to spend less on fur coats. Well, he`s getting his wish. Changes in wind and ocean currents caused by global warming shift heat around unevenly, causing some areas to heat up dramatically even as other regions cool. Russia, it turns out, is in the unusually hot category. Between 1976 and 2012, average...
Wildlife needs half of planet to avoid biological holocaust
2014-08-27 13:04:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Blue and Green: A Pulitzer Prize winner and Harvard scientist has said that half of the Earth should be human-free and dedicated solely to the worlds wildlife in order to avoid mass extinction of species. Prominent biologist and two times Pulitzer winner E.O. Wilson has suggested that half of our planet should be dedicated to the worlds animals, as the only way to avoid critical mass extinction. 85-year old Wilson is considered the father of sociobiology and is a leading expert in biodiversity. His work...
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Here's how Brazil's new presidential candidate help save the planet
2014-08-26 00:21:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Global Post: When Brazilian presidential candidate Eduardo Campos' plane went down near Sao Paulo this month, one of the most improbable consequences may have been to thrust the Amazon center stage in the race. Yet that's what is happening now that Campos' running mate, environmentalist Marina Silva, has taken his place on the ballot for the October vote. Silva, who learned to read and write only at age 16 after growing up in poverty on a remote jungle plantation, has a certain appeal with disgruntled voters....
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