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POPSThe Waste-Pickers of Delhi The original Delhi recyclers have turned garbage into cash for decades. Now, a carbon-credit-generating incinerator may put them out of business.
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POPSLoony Left now labels cars' "global warming score" I'm converting my diesel truck to burn used restaurant veggie oil. I'll get around 2000 miles per gallon of diesel used. Will that rate my truck a 1? How about my cows. Shall I stick a sticker on their backsides when I sell them adknowledging their abominable 10 score with their emissions of methane? How can a state indicate causation between the fictional "global warming" and car emissions? There still is no proof there is global warming, and no proof that car exhaust would even cause such an improbably thing. Stand by. Once the loony left gets fully in power you will see horrendous backward leaps that will drastically affect everyone.
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POPSGot a light? Pull my hoof: At the National Institute of Agricultural Technology in Castelar, Argentina, scientists studying climate change have strapped plastic tanks to cows to collect their expelled gas. The slow digestive system of cattle produces methane, a potent greenhouse gas that gets far less attention than carbon dioxide in efforts to fight global warming.
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POPSAldous Huxley - Select Quotes I usually dislike to clip quotes, but this web site was simply irresistible :-) And a last one... "Single-mindedness is all very well in cows or baboons; in an animal claiming to belong to the same species as Shakespeare it is simply disgraceful."
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POPSCOWS FARTING UP THE WORLD ? The fart heard around the world. Are you shitting me cows solely responsible for global warming.I know a few people on the bus with me that could stand to be in this study too.
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POPSNightmare Playgrounds LOL this is the biggest creep-fest I've ever seen. Parents, would you let your kids play on this stuff? How depressing is this stuff?
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POPSHoly Cows: The great carbon offset con The Carbon Offset high priests have made it really easy for us to salve our consciences. We don’t have to go to confession, say Hail Marys, or do any other that old-fashioned embarrassing stuff. All we have to do is pay an offset fee when we buy our airline tickets and they’ll toddle off and plant some trees on our behalf. These trees are supposed to offset the carbon you just dumped into the atmosphere by absorbing it. It’s that simple. Or is it?
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POPSBroaden Your Bird's Eye View at TED Last week, I talked about Knowlage@Wharton and what a profound effect it had on my brain. This reminded me of another wonderful (I mean that literally) website, that I frequently rest at, TED.
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POPSPolitics Explained CAMBODIAN COMMUNISM: You have two cows. The government takes both of them and shoots you. DICTATORSHIP: You have two cows. The government takes both and drafts you. PURE DEMOCRACY: You have two cows. Your neighbors decide who gets the milk. REPRESENTATIVE DEMOCRACY: You have two cows. Your neighbors pick someone to tell you who gets the milk. BUREAUCRACY: You have two cows. At first the government regulates what you can feed them and when you can milk them. Then it pays you not to milk them. Then it takes both, shoots one, milks the other and pours the milk down the drain. Then it requires you to fill out forms accounting for the missing cows. PURE ANARCHY: You have two cows. Either you sell the milk at a fair price or your neighbors try to take the cows and kill you. LIBERTARIAN/ANARCHO-CAPITALISM: You have two cows. You sell one and buy a bull. SURREALISM: You have two giraffes. The government requires you to take harmonica lessons.
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POPSSurvey shows rise in U.S. honey bee deaths From a selfish (human-centred) point of view, here's another reason why food prices will continue to rise at an accelerating rate. From the point of view of the bees, it must be even worse.