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Im with Daim on this one. I don't trust the companies or the corporate governments enough with something like this. And its not like every tree is just one tree that you can easily replant and there wont be any negative effects from it. He writes: "If we want bigger commercial forests, then we should use more paper not less." And then: "Our policies should directly protect important wildlife habitats, not try to reduce our demand for paper." So he basically says the only important "wildlife habitats" that are worth having are the ones our corporations and companies can use and commercialize. No. I say this is total capitalistic bullshit. :angry:

You mean the Netherlands? :o

Ford's solution to it's crisis: “Ford Reintroduces Model T Line That Made It Great”, which has the following great figure:

Well of course. Altough that "wildlife preserve" fence seems way too big. I dont know really... The text really starts out great: What the!? Such an ignorant statement. We have had higher rates of cancer here, even way up in northern Sweden, ever since the accident. And... A new Greenpeace report has revealed that the full consequences of the Chernobyl disaster could top a quarter of a million cancer cases and nearly 100,000 fatal cancers. The report involved 52 respected scientists and includes information never before published in English. It challenges the UN International Atomic Energy Agency Chernobyl Forum report, which predicted 4,000 additional deaths attributable to the accident as a gross simplification of the real breadth of human suffering. The new data, based on Belarus national cancer statistics, predicts approximately 270,000 cancers and 93,000 fatal cancer cases caused by Chernobyl. The report also concludes that on the basis of demographic data, during the last 15 years, 60,000 people have additionally died in Russia because of the Chernobyl accident, and estimates of the total death toll for the Ukraine and Belarus could reach another 140,000. The report also looks into the ongoing health impacts of Chernobyl and concludes that radiation from the disaster has had a devastating effect on survivors; damaging immune and endocrine systems, leading to accelerated ageing, cardiovascular and blood illnesses, psychological illnesses, chromosomal aberrations and an increase in foetal deformations.

Now thats funny! :lol:

That is strange. The link works just fine for me. I copy and paste it here for you: Four square metres of rainforest are destroyed for every gram of cocaine snorted in the UK, a conference of senior police officers as told yesterday. Francisco Santos Calderón, the vice-president of Colombia, appealed to British users of the class A drug to consider the impact on the environment. He said that while the green agenda would not persuade addicts to give up, the middle-class social user who drove a hybrid car and was concerned about the environment might not take the drug if they knew its impact. Santos said 300,000 hectares of rainforest were destroyed each year in Colombia to clear land for coca plant cultivation, predominantly controlled by illegal groups, including the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia, known as Farc. Officers were told cocaine and heroin use cost the British economy around £15bn a year in health and crime bills. Santos outlined to the Association of Chief Police Officers how lives were lost in the illegal cocaine trade in Colombia. He said landmines that were used to protect crops and processing labs killed almost 900 civilians this year. Farc and other groups funded by narcotics production were also involved in kidnapping. The Colombian-French politician Ingrid Betancourt was held for more than six years before her release earlier this year, and Santos himself was kidnapped and held by a cocaine gang for 18 months in the 1990s. He told the Belfast conference: "If you snort a gram of cocaine, you are destroying 4m square of rainforest and that rainforest is not just Colombian - it belongs to all of us who live on this planet, so we should all be worried about it. Not only that, the money that you use to buy the cocaine goes into the hands of Farc, of illegal groups that plant mines, that kidnap, that kill, that use terrorism to protect their business." Santos said many middle-class Britons who used cocaine were unaware of its environmental impact. "For somebody who drives a hybrid, who recycles, who is worried about global warming - to tell him that that night of partying will destroy 4m square of rainforest might lead him to make another decision." Santos said Europe was experiencing a boom in cocaine use among more affluent people that was comparable with that seen in the USA 25 years ago. Everyone, he said, had a duty to change their behaviour to halt a rise in demand that was destroying his country. "We call it shared responsibility, We can't do it on our own. We need everybody's action; police here, police in Colombia, the authorities in both countries and the consumers too. If there is no consumption, there will be no production. "There is a sense of frustration, because here drug use is seen as a personal choice and to some extent cocaine is seen as the champagne of drugs which causes no effect and is a victimless crime. It is not victimless." Bill Hughes, the director general of the Serious and Organised Crime Agency, told the conference that the UK was a very attractive market for drug traffickers. "There is still a lot of disposable income; the risk compared to the US if you are caught is felt to be much less," he said. The £15bn cost to the economy reduced the amount of money available for schools, teachers and police officers. He said traffickers moved their drugs from South America to west Africa, and then to the EU and Britain, often operating through insecure countries with poor law enforcement. Spain, Portugal and the Netherlands were major staging posts on the trafficking routes and much of the synthetic drug market was supplied from the Netherlands. Hughes said the proceeds of crime were undermining or corrupting governments globally, with the trade worth £4bn-£6.6bn in the UK. Britain's coke habit • The UK has the highest number of cocaine users in the EU, according to the latest figures • Acpo was told that 14% of the UK's population had used cocaine. After increases in the last few years, numbers who took the drug were now stabilising • The drugs come to Britain from South America via west Africa. Drugs are often trafficked through insecure countries with poor law enforcement • Figures from the British Crime Survey this month suggested about 810,000 Britons had taken cocaine in the last year • Some 3% of people questioned admitted using class A drugs over the past 12 months, which was less than in the previous year

Indeed! But I am confused. How can the estimated tax on Left 4 Dead be so much? Subtotal $49.99 Estimated Tax $12.50 Total $62.49 The game would cost me $62.49 to buy over Steam due to the insane $12.50 tax added. If I bought the game in a store here in Sweden the game would just cost me $49, including taxes. I've previously bought games via Steam but this price is just insane. It must be something wrong here. Why is the price higher here, online at Steam? I mean, I dont even get a CD or a case for those money. <_<

This is a bit fun: Al Qaeda No. 2 Calls Obama Racial Epithet, Also Insults Powell, Rice... Al-Qaeda must be really mad that the american people did not choose their favourite candidate :lol:

Doing coke is bad for your health. It's also bad for the environment. Colombia's vice president appealed to British users to consider the 300,000 hectares of rainforest destroyed every year to make way for coca plant cultivation. In Santos's address to conference of senior police officers, he recognized that the environmental impact of the cocaine trade wouldn't be enough to get hard users to kick the habit, but might persuade the middle-class social users who drive hybrids and are concerned their carbon footprint to stop doing blow. Do you think the environment is enough to get casual coke heads to quit? Read it: http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2008/nov/1...santos-calderon

http://l4d.com Yay! :)

I found this site that has fatfree vegan recipes while I was stumbling around the Internet.

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I dont think you are bigger smokers than the danish people! :lol:

I found this picture while I was stumbling around the Internet: Pretty fun! ;)

You both bring up very valid points. But would we really hesitate to let these ignorant car companies die if we wouldn't all be in this global financial crisis? Yes it's always sad when people loose their jobs. But, things change, and mostly to the better. Other companies will replace these “big three”. In Sweden thousands of people have lost their former jobs in the car industry. Lars Ohly, party leader for the Left Party, says the car factories should be transformed to making wind power stations instead. That is something companies and governments around the world should really consider. The green sector will create millions of new jobs. And mountainhiker is correct. These billions that the car companies will get will not make them build greener cars. It will just keep a dead company alive a bit longer.

Huh? What are you talking about? Artemis brings up a very good point. The degradation of the soil plays a very important role, a role that has been discussed since the days of Karl Marx.

Ahh you like my little Asian avatar? Its so kawaii! ;)

World of Warcraft has Elves too.. Just so you know. ;)

Lots of good links and news. But the site isn't so easy to read... :(

Another good list! :thumbup:

’The reason for the lack of oxygen is primarily man’s increased discharge of nutrients like nitrogen and phosphorous. Before industrialisation hardly any oxygen deficiency existed at all in the soft seabeds of coastal seas’, state Rutger Rosenberg and Robert Diaz.