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7.0

pollutionCopenhagen climate summit will generate as mush CO2 as the English town of Middlesbrough, where 150,000 people live.

1,200 limousines and 140 private planes are being used to bring diplomats and scientists to the summit. Let’s hope they get a return on their investment.

But, of course, we have to do what they say, not what they do.

6.4

noiseSteve and Caroline Cartwright are really in love, they are very active and… noisy. Their neighbors ended up lodging a complaint and Steve and Caroline have since been condemned.
Witnesses mention “screams”, “hysterical, continuous” sounds. Recordings from neighbors appartments show that volume could reach 47 decibels. The court also had to listen to a ten minutes recordings during which our lovers were screaming “as if they were enduring massive pain”.
But neigbors were not alone: a mailman, a pedestrian walking her kid to school were also among the plaintiffs.

6.4

trash

An eccentric loner in Britain hoarded so much trash he had to burrow through it to get around his home — then got lost in the maze of tunnels and died of thirst.

7.5

Rush LimbaughWhen Times reporter Andy Revkin pointed out that a growing world population is an important source of greenhouse gas emissions, conservative radio talk-show host Rush Limbaugh replied:

“Mr. Revkin, why don’t you just go kill yourself and help the planet by dying?”

In his article, Revkin suggests that one of the cheapest ways to curb emissions in coming decades would be to provide access to birth control to those who desire it all over the world, making contraception the greenest technlolgy.

7.5

George Bush in crowd“I know the human being and fish can coexist peacefully,” said George W. Bush in order to justify why he would not remove energy-producing dams that endangered fish species.

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