Here’s just a tiny example of what’s likely to be a growing phenomenon — increased pressure to extract oil from much-loved, environmentally sensitive areas all over the world.
It’s not just vast wildernesses like ANWR that will be threatened as oil prices soar.
As this plan to drill in the UK shows, we can expect that pressure [...]
Posts Tagged ‘resources’
- as oil dries up, should we expect no landscape to be sacred?
Posted in economics, plants and animals, tagged oil, resources, woodland on May 16, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
- confused this Earth Day?
Posted in environmentalism, policy, political action, tagged consumer culture, corporations, eco-anxiety, energy, food, global warming, health, pollution, resources, water on April 22, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
What, exactly, is the world coming to? How worried, precisely, should we be about the state of our climate, our energy system, our food supplies, our water, the air we breath? What really is — or might soon — be the problem with any of these?
It’s hard to keep track and easy to [...]
