US Still Getting Pwn3d by Chinese Pollution
Posted on 19. Mar, 2008 by Daniel Taylor in Crime, Idiocy, Lifestyle, Science, TV, Technology
A new NASA study, using advances in satellite technology, has finally been able to measure the long-rumored drift of pollution from China and other East Asian countries, into North America:
“We used the latest satellite capabilities to distinguish industrial pollution and smoke from dust transported to the western regions of North America from East Asia. Looking at four years of data from 2002 to 2005 we estimated the amount of pollution arriving in North America to be equivalent to about 15 percent of local emissions of the U.S. and Canada,†[...]
The Story of Stuff – A Really Inconvenient Truth
Posted on 20. Feb, 2008 by Daniel Taylor in Internet, Lifestyle, Science
The Story of Stuff is a 20-minute short, part animation, part monologue, that deals with the ecological, social, and personal impact of the linear mode of consumption and production found in Western capitalist society. Though it deals with some pretty heady shit, it’s tone is somewhat maternal, with host Annie Leonard taking the role of kindly kindergarten teacher. But the subject matter is anything but lighthearted. Here are some of the facts:
• 80% of the world’s forests are gone.
• 2000 trees a minute are [...]
Reason #345654 Why Your Life is Worthless
Posted on 29. Oct, 2007 by Daniel Taylor in Idiocy, Lifestyle, Science
All the shit you throw away — grocery bags, cd cases, water bottles, toys, iPods — ends up in the Great Pacific Garbage Patch, a heap of debris floating in the Pacific twice the size of Texas, consisting of 80 percent plastics and weighing some 3.5 million tons, and floating where few people ever travel, in no-man’s land between San Francisco and Hawaii.
Ocean current patterns may keep the flotsam stashed in a part of the world few will ever see, but the majority of its content is generated onshore, [...]
