All posts from Friday, April 28th, 2006

Eliot Spitzer once again demonstrates the super-lawyer powers that will probably win him Governor of New York later this year. He’s leading a pack of 10 states (plus NYC, DC and the Sierra Club) in a lawsuit against the EPA over Global Warming. The charge is that since coal-burning power plants generate 40% of current greenhouse emissions, the gov’t should step in and reglulate. (Apparently a similar case was lost last year.) The EPA’s defense is that they don’t have the authority to regulate emissions (which kinda makes them sound more like the Coal-Burning Power Plant Protection Agency.) I’m just surprised that I didn’t hear about this in the local news, since both my state and city are involved.

I worry about how this will play out in the rest of the country; will it be seen as just another radical “blue state” stunt? Considering that Time Magazine thinks 80% of Americans believe global warming is real, it could go either way.

Interesting little article that claims the difference in net carbon emissions between a meat-based and plant-based diet is about the same as that between an SUV and a standard car. The math seems a little simplistic but it’s probably not far from the truth. I really like meat, though– what I am driving if I only eat it once a week? A minivan? (By this logic, I guess Vegans are all driving hybrids.)