http://www.goldenarple.com/going-green/maldives-dive/ There are many interesting ideas in this world. This blog is dedicated to pursuing them wherever they go. Politics, philosophy, religion, environment, and anything else that captures imaginations and leads to healthy discussions. Never take the world for what it is, there's always a better way to do something. Tue, 23 Feb 2010 09:28:58 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 http://www.goldenarple.com/going-green/maldives-dive/comment-page-1/#comment-21 State of the Day Adress, October 26th | The Golden Arple Mon, 26 Oct 2009 21:20:20 +0000 http://www.goldenarple.com/?p=33#comment-21 [...] According to analysts at the Environmental Protection Agency, a Senate plan to fight Global Warming would cost each American family about $100 a year. With Copenhagen Climate Conference less than two months away, the progress on the climate bill has been slow. I don’t this story about the cost will help. Faced with a choice between $100 and saving the world.. supporters are probably not optimistic. Perhaps more Americans should vacation in the Maldives. [...] [...] According to analysts at the Environmental Protection Agency, a Senate plan to fight Global Warming would cost each American family about $100 a year. With Copenhagen Climate Conference less than two months away, the progress on the climate bill has been slow. I don’t this story about the cost will help. Faced with a choice between $100 and saving the world.. supporters are probably not optimistic. Perhaps more Americans should vacation in the Maldives. [...]

]]> http://www.goldenarple.com/going-green/maldives-dive/comment-page-1/#comment-14 A Giant Step Back | The Golden Arple Fri, 23 Oct 2009 15:48:26 +0000 http://www.goldenarple.com/?p=33#comment-14 [...] It doesn’t stop there, only about a third of Americans feel that human actions, pollution for cars and factories, are responsible for temperature increase. That number was at 47% only three years ago. I understand we are caught in a midst of an economic turmoil, however, can we afford to let environmental issues just sit there unattended? If you found out you had cancer that hasn’t metastasized yet, would you ignore because you were going through financial hardship? Global warming as a result of pollution is a cancer.. and it threatens the lives of millions worldwide. From continual soil erosion and desertification in Australia and Africa, increasing frequency of hurricanes, the melting of polar ice caps, and the rise of sea levels that threaten nations like the Maldives [...] [...] It doesn’t stop there, only about a third of Americans feel that human actions, pollution for cars and factories, are responsible for temperature increase. That number was at 47% only three years ago. I understand we are caught in a midst of an economic turmoil, however, can we afford to let environmental issues just sit there unattended? If you found out you had cancer that hasn’t metastasized yet, would you ignore because you were going through financial hardship? Global warming as a result of pollution is a cancer.. and it threatens the lives of millions worldwide. From continual soil erosion and desertification in Australia and Africa, increasing frequency of hurricanes, the melting of polar ice caps, and the rise of sea levels that threaten nations like the Maldives [...]

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