Posts Tagged ‘motor industry’
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Uneven Development and Northern Imperialism in the making of Today’s Ecological Crisis
What is equality and development? And what kind of influence has the environment on both of these relations? For me, environmentalism has always been about caring about the well-state and equality of everyone and everything. Al Gore said, during the …
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Obama on 60 Minutes: “We go from shock to trance and that has to be broken”
In his first interview since the election Barack Obama talked with 60 Minutes about the economy, energy and about the failing auto industry in USA. In the interview Obama said that “the challenges that we’re confronting are enormous” and many, …
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Let GM and the other failed auto giants go under
Photo credit: davetrainer Trevor Reichman over at TreeHugger asks why GM and the other corporate giants in the auto industry seeks $50 billion in public funding, while no one mentions help for public transportation. Reichman points out that the demand …
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“There is no need to spend a penny of public money on greening the motor industry”
photo credit: Nrbelex George Monbiot says that the motor industry has long sabotaged eco-innovations and that they are now demanding billions to cut its carbon emissions. The green subsidy for car makers, Monbiot says, is just a disguised corporate bail-out. …
