Getting Rid of Carbon… with one of the World’s Most Dreaded Word
TAX. ‘nuff said. Global innovator Elon Musk, who has been involved with well-known companies like Solar City, Tesla, and SpaceX, has suggested during the recently held 2015 Paris Climate Conference that there should be a tax specifically for carbon emissions and usage as a means to minimize the evident harmful effects of global warming. “If countries agree to a carbon tax and it’s real and it’s not super watered down and weak we could see a transition [to clean energy] that has a 15- to 20-year timeframe as opposed to a 40- or 50-year timeframe, we could probably cut it in half and that would have a huge impact on the … welfare of the world … it really matters where we do this transition sooner or later,” Musk said.
Economic Growth: The Hidden Truth
You see it in the news – on paper, on TV, and online: The statement that our economy is growing along with using less of everything. While that might be a promising premise, you’ll be shocked at how everything’s turned 180 degrees when you take a look behind the scenes.
What’s happening is that to be “economically sustainable”, we import a huge part of raw materials intended for production of goods rather than producing them on our own. This makes the data and charts look good on paper. However, the global impact on our natural and artificial resources leaves a huge dent on the countries which produce those raw materials.
Bottom line is that as years go by, this will be fundamentally unsustainable. Now that you are aware that production follows destruction… What will you do about it?
Goodbye Greenland?
…or at least the icy part of it. Laurence Smith, head of the Geography department in the University of California recently headed a team of researchers to get a lowdown of the effects of climate change on Greenland’s popular lands of ice. “We scientists love to sit at our computers and use climate models to make those predictions but to really know what’s happening, that kind of understanding can only come about through empirical measurements in the field.” said Smith. Their research is still ongoing but once it’s done, these will help lots of people all around the world especially those who are live near coastal areas and are directly affected by the rising sea levels… like New York and Bangladesh.
Call to Earth: A Message from the World’s Astronauts
When astronauts of the world unite and gather together to deliver one strong message about our planet that they see 250 meters from space, you’ve got to sit back and listen wholeheartedly.
