Great Lakes residents would be paying this off for 47 years … but reaping the benefits for just as long.
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Credit: NASA When our earliest ancestors first learned to manipulate perhaps the most powerful of natural forces by creating and harnessing fire, it set the human species on a trajectory towards global domination from which we, for better or worse, have yet to veer. What began as humble campfire flames flickering in the otherwise pitch-black, prehistoric night, now propels our combustion engines and powers our cities, lighting our houses and drowning out stars. And 40% of all oil industry jobs are minimum wage jobs at filling stations. Photo: Terry Robinson / CC BY SA You may have seen new ad from the American Petroleum Institute touting how many people the oil and gas industry employs, and the benefits of fossil fuels in general. API claims that 9.2 million people are employed in this way. We make it a point to emphasize the benefits of community sharing and cooperative resource pooling here at TreeHugger. It’s why we love product service systems , renting instead of owning, and crowd-sourcing networks that maximize efficiency. Remember that scene in Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull , where Indie is stuck in a completely fake town with no people, and that was the basis of the phrase, “to nuke the fridge”, which was going to replace “to jump the shark”? They blew that one away, but evidently a new one is being built in New Mexico as a test bed for new technologies. I thought there already acres of houses with no people all over Arizona and Nevada thanks to the real estate crash, but evidently that’s not good enough Photo credit: colros via Flickr/CC BY Here’s a newsflash: America is still really fat . And a new Gallup poll reveals that we’re continuing to get even fatter in some new and exciting ways More on the benefits of shale gas as touted by fracking companies being overstated: According to new independent analysis, published in The Oil Drum , of extent of the US’ shale gas reserves and the economics of extracting those finds that “industry reserves are over-stated by at least 100 percent”. White roofs in winter in Winnepeg After posting about the benefits of white roofs, (as Mike did here on TreeHugger ), Andrew Sullivan published a couple of letters from readers questioning their benefits. I had a look at this issue two years ago, and wrote that Arguments Against White Roofs in Northern Cit… Read the full story on TreeHugger Nutrition breakthrough lets health conscious consumers drink in the benefits of Omega 3s. Discover the benefits of green computing. |
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