by Tan Copsey
Grist detailed this rather interesting story of how the levers of capitalism were put to good effect to prevent a large expansion in coal-fired power plants in the US. OK, so the buyout of TXU Corp actually amounted to a much smaller expansion, which is still rather illogical, but it demonstrates that the wash of green capitalism can have some rather positive effects.
Speaking of Greenwash, our man George Monbiot was on the telly last night here in the UK, speaking about it. His main targets were Government, Industry, and I hate to say it, you, you lazy bastard you. The doco itself was relatively interesting – though not new news for Monbiofiles (it replicated the material of many of his Guardian columns, with a touch of Monbiot the campaigner at climate demo’s). Sadly any positive helpful effects were tastelessly off-set by Channel 4 who trailed their bizarre travestamentary ‘The Great Global Warming Swindle’ before and after Monbiot. Given how far we have moved in terms of scientific debate, the notion of endlessly replicating a meaningless constructed media ‘debate’ in the name of journalistic balance seems utterly and profoundly ridiculous. Sigh.
In other news UK Environment Minister wants to change the meaning of the E in EU.
Polar bears will either save us all or soon it won’t just be seal blood smeared frighteningly across their muzzles…
Bill McKibben, as always, has some excellent advice.
And Worldchanging offers a solution for the common problem of ‘Flying Toilets’.
