What the world was waiting for -- the sinking island nations, the 300,000 that the World Health Organization says die each year from global warming, and the carbon markets -- were binding agreements to cut carbon pollution, end tropical deforestation by 2015, and provide financing to assist developing countries in leap-frogging dirty development with clean energy.
Dirty development is just a phase on the way to a clean environment, look at 19th-century London!
These issues would have included how to tackle social problems and inequality in industrialised societies, and how to reduce the negative impact of dirty development on the planet.
Clear cutting of old growth trees, sprawling development, burning of dirty fossil fuels, inefficiency in manufacturing, and toxic waste all contribute to the planet's woes.
"It's awfully difficult to reconcile a concerted attempt to reduce greenhouse gas emissions with the massive development of the dirtiest oil on the planet," Mr. Brune said before his arrest.
That big spending is in part a reaction to a growing recognition among Americans that fracking and other dirty fuel development is bad for public health, bad for the climate, and bad for the economy.
We need diplomats and businessmen and women, and Peace Corps volunteers to help developing nations skip past the dirty phase of development and transition to sustainable sources of energy.
The Merriam-Webster definition, which reads in part "of, relating to, or characterized by average intelligence or development," includes a newly dirty word in educational circles.
They are places that are also increasingly important for the growing outdoor recreation economy -- an economy not subject to the boom and bust cycles associated with dirty fuel development.
Now is the time for those who manage our federal public lands to prioritize protecting the recreational, cultural and natural treasures of those lands, rather than promoting dirty fuels development and contributing to our climate crisis. .
In today's press conference, Secretary Salazar announced Interior's intent to authorize more than 12,000 megawatts of renewable energy by the end of next year... Yet in opening the door for 2.35 billion tons of coal mining, Salazar's announcement effectively enables more than 300,000 megawatts of coal-fired energy--30 times more dirty energy development than renewable energy.
