And if you can come up with a profit making model that also feeds people who need to be fed, or solves health care problems, or stops polluting the environment, then that's a great win-win solution.And that's what a lot of this is about.
Something not to be done. Polluting CO2 is just something we can't, shouldn't, wouldn't want to do because it is unethical to do.Fine, all right, sure.
to China now. Item two, today's New York Times, China is closing 2,087 of its dirtiest, most polluting factories by decree on September 1st, I believe the date is. So, that's more than two thousand of their dirtiest plants, which is gonna have a serious reduction intheir carbon intensity; it's not gonna get them all the way to their targets. But the idea that China is not acting is an obsolete argument. China is acting in ways that we
be shut down tomorrow. And the EPA will be rolling out its draft regulations in September for implementation beginning in January and it is devoutly to be wished that some of these most polluting plants are not gonna be able to meet EPA standards and will have to be shut down finally. The whole search for a compromise in the Congress and the whole reason for a cap was to reduce rate shocks and regulatory costs on industry, on the utility industry
Child support payments-- this guy, stay away from this guy. They are polluting . They're inefficient.
Dyes, as I talk about in that chapter, dyes have always been messy. They've always been polluting . They've always been stinky.
I've given up on that, OK? is not polluting the planet?
Here's what air pollution looked like in the years leading up to 1970. We were polluting the skies and the water and the land more year after year. And when I was researching the book, one of the crazy things I learned was that up until about the middle of the 20th century,
The idea that it might actually really negatively impact our health was just not widely accepted at all. And in addition to polluting the world that we lived on, we took some of the most majestic, some of the most amazing animals on the face of the planet, and almost wiped them out.
You can't keep beating up the species. You can't keep polluting it. And the only way around this is for that exponential curve of our growth to change direction, to level off, and actually-- if you listen to this school of thought--
They're going to go through the same transition we did. We have restrictions on polluting that are enforced.
And they can begin to take over the reef. If you're polluting the reef at the same time and dumping a bunch of nutrients in it, the effect is like putting Miracle-Gro on the seaweeds. The seaweeds can grow.
But scallops don't really come from Florida. But with issues like polluting the water and stuff like this-- going up to Alaska, we went out for a day on the boats.
So I guess I should define environmental debt, the opposite of environmental credit. It's the polluting and damaging actions that cost other people real money like those foresters, those deforestation in Thailand from 20 years ago that cost Toyota 3 and 1/2% of its output in 2011.
And don't trust market solutions like cap and trade. That's a trick to keep polluting . Even if you have to pay, and those who say we need population control are dodgy.
Building. Does anybody in this room know Bill de Blasio-- the mayor of New York? smoking at their desk and polluting the air-- 1997, I think, or '98 were the last commercial smoking
It does have to taste good. They don't want polluters polluting , things like that.
to the oil that is left and I would argue in the same time block our ability refine that dirtier heavier more polluting oil without increasing pollution and the reason why they're
to the oil that is left and I would argue in the same time block our ability plans for refining the dirtier polluting
and our concern was always that one of these things was going to go into the river. The local fishermen's groups complained that something was polluting the river, because their fish populations were dying off.
We know that Big Food is mistreating animals and polluting the environment in order to maximize their profit.
fact contributing to it, not polluting the air because we can't do that without air permits. All of this stuff is a
And you are telling me that my effluent will be very non-polluting .
So if you are an energy company and you close down a polluting plant, that will help the environment.
That's the combination of capitalism and tech progress. We need an aware public to say, stop polluting our skies, and stop killing all the whales. And we need responsive governments to listen to that if we have them.
But then, as people figured out the polluting effects of automobiles, the unintended but toxic secondary effects
And what these guys did was develop a concrete that was less polluting to make, and also lasted longer because you could use less of it because it
Avoiding wars and arms races, and polluting our communal resources.
from the water so that you can legally pump out your build water without polluting the ocean because the plastic
in the ways that we actually need, and not polluting that right hemisphere of our brain with more of these left hemispheric solutions. I'm not
motorbikes have to comply with strict emission targets. Drivers of higher polluting vehicles, have to pay a daily
Therefore, I decided to get into industrial enzymes because I realized that industry was polluting
That's like saying, let me pollute the river because the other company's polluting their river.
And noisy, expensive, polluting .
She's the first generation that will never know what it's like to grow up in a carbon polluting home.
So, they will use a combination of carrots and sticks such as tax hikes on high polluting
anyway. So we're just pissed off that we didn't get to do the polluting .
to the oil that is left and I would argue in the same time block our ability that has to be broken off somewhere and it is broken off into the air which makes it even more polluting to refine
that, the way to get less pollution is to make polluting expensive.
where you can't see the Sun at all ever and those power that that that that pollution is actually what's polluting
lies in solar power, and wind energy, and transitioning out of these polluting enterprises into cleaner ones.
So they either avoid sending greenhouse gases up into the atmosphere, whether that's through energy efficiency, replacing fossil fuels, or other, more polluting technologies
So people are focused on, let's use a natural or renewable source versus a non-carbon source or a low polluting source.
It's good, clearly, in that cars will move more smoothly, more efficiently, and obviously in a much less polluting sort of way, less stopping and starting.
You may know that cement, which is an ingredient of concrete, is one of the biggest polluting sources of CO2 in the world.
People often talk about, well, there was maybe like a little ring of goo around the equator where the cyanobacteria hung out and kept polluting everything.
We have, inadvertently, policies that encourage them to do those polluting things.
He's at the mic, so . How do you feel about working with developing nations who said, oh sure, you got develop polluting . And now it's our turn to develop and you're telling us no.
Now, to this end, Western culture is often perceived as a source of decadence and evil for polluting the purity of
Saturated fat, cholesterol, acidifying animal protein, and huge amounts of sewage, which end up, again, polluting both surface water and groundwater.