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Can increased energy access levels go hand-in-hand with lowering our climate emissions?
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"Rio +20 is occurring as we enter a phase of planetary emergency - we've recently surpassed 400 ppm in the Arctic, biodiversity loss is occurring at an exponential pace and global warming is magnifying global abnormal weather conditions. The political will to be proactive about these conditions seems to have evaporated. So how do we...[read more]
Rio+20 Needs An Ideas Overhaul To Address Global Challenges
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For advocates of all things “green”, the Rio+20 Summit is supposed to charter a new path forward for the world to address its biggest challenges: reduce greenhouse gas emissions, eradicate poverty, end hunger, limit environmental destruction and increase access to clean water. But like recent climate change negotiations, the conference will result in little more than vague frameworks.[read more]
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“Exxon sells a great carbon dioxide stripping agent, a product known as Flexsorb, a sterically hindered amine.This doesn't mean that they're suddenly out of the climate change denial manufacturing business. One can be fairly certain that they continue to follow the tobacco company/lung cancer strategy of several decades ago. What their production of ...”
“So in the end, you do want to keep FFs and CO2 pumping into the atmosphere ?What I am saying is that any hard look at Nuclear power will note that it produces almost no CO2, and Very few deaths/illnesses when compared with other sources of power.I do conceed that current commercial nuclear technology is by no means ideal to my thinking. We know how to build nuclear plants that are Walk away safe ...”