Geoengineering – the deliberate, large-scale manipulation of the earths climate to offset global warming – is a nightmare fix for climate change. – Jeff Goodell
Australia is the only island continent on the planet, which means that changes caused by planet-warming pollution – warmer seas, which can drive stronger storms, and more acidic oceans, which wreak havoc on the food chain – are even more deadly here. – Jeff Goodell
The biggest tab the public picks up for fossil fuels has to do with what economists call external costs, like the health effects of air and water pollution. – Jeff Goodell
In the U.S. alone, weather disasters caused $50 billion in economic damages in 2010. – Jeff Goodell
Even before he came to power in 1997, Gordon Brown promised to change the accounts to parliament from simple litanies of cash in and cash out, to a more commercial system that took notice of the public property the departments were using. This system is known as resource accounting. – James Buchan