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Big Oil, Big Promises, the Environment and the Recession
Globalisation and the Environment — ... This is something I have covered in a couple of academic papers. I have also often been amazed at the number of "green" adverts the oil companies put out on TV and in magazines. Given alternative energy is such a small percentage of what Shell actually does why is it given such prominence in the media. We know the answer but George drags it out to fill an excellent comment piece. Over to Monbiot. I have included the full text as it is all worth reading. It will take more than goodwill and greenwash to save the biosphere [Guardian] ...

Climate & environment - Jan 6
Energy Bulletin - — ... what new idea or technology will "change everything." Responses range all over, but there are a few climate-related responses, including British novelist Ian McEwan's prediction that solar technology will really take off and Stanford climatologist Stephen H. Schneider's guess that rapid melting of Greenland's ice sheets will wake up the world to the need to take concerted action on curbing C02 emissions. (2 January, 2009) All links to the original articles are posted on gristmill. KS It will take more than goodwill and greenwash to save the biosphere George Monbiot, The ...