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After operating on the periphery around Polizeros for a while, I’ve been invited to do a little scribble now and then. Honored. Polizeros has been a super-trooper blog pushing those frost heaves of progressivism for years. I’ll begin my foray here with not a news entry, nor a scathing commentary, nor a blog-esque diary [...] Income stream. Worth more dead than alive If you burn ethanol from corn in your car, the government doesn’t count the carbon dioxide that comes out of the tailpipe as an actual carbon emission. That’s because they figure the corn plant originally took that carbon dioxide out of the air, so you’re just putting [...] Since 2007, carbon emissions have dropped 9 percent. While part of this drop is from the recession, part of it is also from efficiency gains and from replacing coal with natural gas, wind, solar, and geothermal energy More cuts are almost certainly coming due to increased standards for appliances, automobiles, and incentives to develop renewable [...] DJ at Asymptotic Life crunched the numbers and found that beef has a high carbon footprint, but (surprising to me) rice more than an order of magnitude higher. Two foods stood out from the pack as far worse than the others: Per pound eaten, rice creates 276 pounds of CO2 , and beef 11.5 [...] |  | ||||
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