Human beings are deeply dependent on motorized machines to move themselves around. Trillions of these things now choke a vast and growing network of so-called “roads,” getting into deadly accidents and polluting the planet’s atmosphere.
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One of Earth’s tens of millions of species has been mining colossal volumes of organic matter buried for ages — energy-rich liquids and gases that would have been buried for aeons still — and burning the stuff for fuel! Their garbage dumps have been seeping vast volumes of earth-warming methane. Bottom line: the creatures have managed to raise the surface temperature of their planet to a level higher than any time in the past hundred thousand years! Whether human beings can pull out of their nose dive is anyone’s guess.
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Here’s a dispatch we’ve received from the Tanzanian capital of Dar Es Salaam – City of Peace – a metropolis known for its astonishing traffic jams. Urban planners in Dar are working on a new mass transit system, that will hopefully make everyone’s lives and workday much more peaceful … in theory. Josephat Mwanzi reports.
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Stuart Franklin is turning air miles into trees. Franklin — the founder of a grassroots carbon offsetting project in Ecuador — calculates how many seedlings he has to put in the ground in order to generate a carbon bank big enough to capture the carbon dioxide emitted by tourists jetting to the popular Galapagos Islands each year.
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Once upon a time, the US was the world’s top emitter of carbon dioxide, the major man-made, heat-trapping gas. The average American still emits more than the rest of us, but – sometime last year – fueled by a rising demand for coal and cement – China’s annual emissions surpassed the US’s, at about six billion tonnes. As the Chinese choke on fume-filled air, their leaders are turning to the wind.
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An Interview with 1989 Right Livelihood Award winner Melaku Worede.
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