Nature Can't Save Us From Ourselves

Thursday, July 14, 2011 Nature Can't Save Us From Ourselves The notion that nature itself will act as a check on the atmospheric excesses of humanity has long held a fair amount of appeal, not least because it draws on a nugget of high-school science that most people can quickly comprehend. Plants inhale carbon dioxide, after all -- they need it to grow. Add more CO2 to the air, as human civilization has been doing in copious amounts since the dawn of the Industrial Revolution, and the result will surely be thicker, more expansive biomass. House Votes: EPA Limited In Protecting Water From Pollution Battling Agricultural Pests With Natural Weapons Poachers Decimate Deer Population, Are Sentenced To Four Annual Hunting Seasons In Jail USAID Chief: Climate Change, Food Prices Spur East Africa Famine Green Jobs Can Bring Home Bigger Paychecks, Report Finds BLOG POSTS Al Gore: Meet The Climate Reality Project Oil and coal companies and their allies are working hard to deceive the public about climate change. They have nearly unlimited resources to sow doubt, but we have one critical advantage: Reality is on our side. Lisa P. Jackson: Green Jobs for Our Health and Our Economy We can show that we don't have to choose between breathing clean air and drinking clean water or creating good jobs. We can do them all at the same time. Kathy Freston: Humane Meat It's difficult to imagine how any approach to meat production could be worse than factory farming as it is currently practiced in this country. Michelle Chen: The Globe's Not Only Getting Hotter, It's More Unjust and Unstable, Too Over the next few decades, tens of millions of people will be driven from their homes. Unlike other refugees, though, their plight won't be blamed simply on the familiar horrors of war or persecution; they'll blame the weather. Rep. Mike Honda: Republicans Throw Conservation to Curb, Eviscerate EPA, and Pump Pollutants Into America's Air, Water and Land The House Interior Appropriations Bill undermines clean water protections, undermines standards on toxic coal ash disposal, pushes aside Clean Air Act permitting processes for drilling off of Alaska's coast, and blocks the listing of endangered species.

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