BP Oil Spill Denial: What Will It Take to Get Us to Change?
June 9, 2010
More than a month after BP’s Deepwater Horizon oil spill, the oil continues to flow from the Gulf of Mexico to pollute the shores of America’s once-beautiful coastlines. The other week I saw a report put out by the University of Adelaide Environmental Institute that ranked countries around the world by their environmental impact. They measured total degradation based on forest loss, habitat loss, fertilizer use, water pollution, carbon emissions, and other factors. The U.S. was ranked… more
Comments (6)The True Cost of Doubt and Denial
May 19, 2010
The recent President’s Cancer Panel report, “Reducing Environmental Cancer Risk: What We Can Do Now,” has put the official government seal on something many of us have recognized for quite some time: Chemicals are very likely to cause cancer.
For the first time, the government has had the courage to recommend the proper solution: Eat organic food. But even that won’t be enough to solve the problem we face as a country on the verge… more
Comments (9)The President’s Cancer Panel Report Suggests We Smarten Up!
May 18, 2010
By guest blogger Annie Spiegelman (a.k.a the Dirt Diva)
Earlier this month the President’s Cancer Panel submitted its report, entitled Reducing Environmental Cancer Risk: What We Can Do Now, which describes the effects of environmental exposures on cancer risk. The two-member panel—LaSalle D. Lefall, Jr., MD, a professor of surgery at Howard University… more
Comments (4)Let’s Put the “Eco” Back in “Economics”
December 16, 2008
Be careful what you wish for…
As a businessperson, I’ve always cringed when I’ve heard environmentalists cry to their faithful to “consume less.” Of course that’s the right thing to do, but the whole focus of our economic security in our global culture is based on consuming more. Growth, production, and consumer confidence are false gods, but they are our… more
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