Economic Reality Check – Climate Change Costs Big Bucks – October 9, 2012

Climate change is already costing the world $1.2 trillion a year and is eating up 1.6 percent of global GDP, and rising

The failure of world leaders to act on the critical issue of global warming is often blamed on economic considerations. Over and over, we hear politicians say they can’t spend our tax dollars on environmental protection when the economy is so fragile. Putting aside the absurdity of prioritizing a human-created and adaptable tool like the economy over caring for everything that allows us to survive and be healthy, let’s take a look at the economic reality.

Photo courtesy EcoWatch

A new scientific report concludes that climate change is already costing the world $1.2 trillion a year and is eating up 1.6 percent of global GDP,… more

by: David Suzuki

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Dumping Waste into the Ground Is a Shaky Solution – July 6, 2012

Little is Known About Leaks from the 680,000 Waste and Injection Sites in the US

What can we do with wastes from our industrial pursuits—from fossil fuel extraction, agriculture, chemical and pharmaceutical manufacturing? We’ve been spewing lots of it into the air, but that isn’t a good plan. Carbon dioxide, ozone, mercury and other emissions harm human health and contribute to global warming and holes in the ozone layer. We’ve dumped it into the oceans. But that compromises marine life that billions of people rely on for food.

Photo by Flickr user LuxomediaClose to 130-trillion litres of toxic liquids have been pumped underground in the US over the past
several decades.

We could bury it: Out of… more

by: David Suzuki

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