Scientists are frustrated that such dramatic anecdotal and empirical evidence hasn't sparked equally dramatic action from Australia's government. They suspect the inaction can be partly explained by examining the nation's relationship with coal. Australia is the world's largest exporter of coal and relies on it for 80% of its electricity. That helps make Australia and its 21 million people the world's highest per-capita producers of greenhouse gases in the industrialized world.
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SHOOT: South Africa is not far behind.
Showing posts with label Quote of the Day. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Quote of the Day. Show all posts
Friday, April 10, 2009
Tuesday, March 17, 2009
Quote[s] of the Day
There is also a strong drift of our society towards corruption. One sign of this is the fading power of the law.
Looking back, Bernanke said the world came close to a financial meltdown. Asked how close, Bernanke responded: "It was very close."
America's recession "probably" will end this year if the government succeeds in bolstering the banking system, Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke said Sunday in a rare television interview.
NVDL: Does that make sense to you? Bernanke (aka Bullshitter) one moment says the world's finance system came within a whisker of melting down, next moment he says we'll be recovering soon, back in the black, all things go, whoopedydoo, later this year? Er...does he think we're a herd of fools?
Returning to Soweto after a day's work, some people have to make two or three additional taxi connections to get home through the sprawling townships. Many cannot afford this and the shoulders of the connector highways off the freeway in Soweto were filled in late afternoon with streams of people heading home on foot, some burdened with bundles, some carrying things on their heads.
The sheer monetary expense of doing all this must be out of this world for people with not much to begin with. Somehow, the insanity of it has been established as "normal," and there were few signs that the government -- now black-majority, after all -- was planning to rectify the situation. There are plans to run a new subway line across town, but at this point it is conceived mainly as a connector to the main airport. The South African rail system -- like America's -- is completely inadequate, and the mandatory motoring program so deeply ingrained -- and associated with the extremes of security and fortification -- that no workable consensus for getting beyond the current situation can be formed. - James Kunstler on South Africa
Looking back, Bernanke said the world came close to a financial meltdown. Asked how close, Bernanke responded: "It was very close."
America's recession "probably" will end this year if the government succeeds in bolstering the banking system, Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke said Sunday in a rare television interview.
NVDL: Does that make sense to you? Bernanke (aka Bullshitter) one moment says the world's finance system came within a whisker of melting down, next moment he says we'll be recovering soon, back in the black, all things go, whoopedydoo, later this year? Er...does he think we're a herd of fools?
Returning to Soweto after a day's work, some people have to make two or three additional taxi connections to get home through the sprawling townships. Many cannot afford this and the shoulders of the connector highways off the freeway in Soweto were filled in late afternoon with streams of people heading home on foot, some burdened with bundles, some carrying things on their heads.
The sheer monetary expense of doing all this must be out of this world for people with not much to begin with. Somehow, the insanity of it has been established as "normal," and there were few signs that the government -- now black-majority, after all -- was planning to rectify the situation. There are plans to run a new subway line across town, but at this point it is conceived mainly as a connector to the main airport. The South African rail system -- like America's -- is completely inadequate, and the mandatory motoring program so deeply ingrained -- and associated with the extremes of security and fortification -- that no workable consensus for getting beyond the current situation can be formed. - James Kunstler on South Africa
Thursday, February 26, 2009
Quote of the day: "We have a group of people who haven’t even learned to use their new phone system trying to redesign half the U.S. economy."
I fear that in trying to do everything at once, they will do nothing well. I fear that we have a group of people who haven’t even learned to use their new phone system trying to redesign half the U.S. economy. I fear they are going to try to undertake the biggest administrative challenge in American history while refusing to hire the people who can help the most: agency veterans who are registered lobbyists.- DAVID BROOKS
Thursday, October 16, 2008
Quote of the Day
In the days that followed, a new quality of dread settled over the place like soot, as people weighed their options. Heat or food? Gas or electricity? Medicine or mortgage payments? In the supermarket, I heard one man tell another, “When I was a kid, you woke up, went into the bathroom, and broke up the ice in the toilet. Now my kids will have to do the same. America is moving backward.” —Soshana Zuboff, “Welcome to the Frozen Economy,” BusinessWeek, July 14, 2008.
NVDL: Our options are growing fewer by the second. I don't exaggerate.
NVDL: Our options are growing fewer by the second. I don't exaggerate.
Tuesday, September 23, 2008
Quote of the Day: "I want to mess with your life" - Stephen King
NVDL: I've always admired King's powerful writing, not necessarily the writing itself. I also try to kick the reader in the guts...from time to time. I think a lot of reader's want that and there are so few writers either able to do that, or doing that in any case... My book HOLIDAY is a great example.
 clipped from mc543.mail.yahoo.com
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