Daily Policy Digest
Environment Issues
| Actions Speak Louder than Words The sea level at Atlantic City has risen 16 inches over the last 100 years, yet the city has evolved to overcome... |
| Electric Vehicle Economics Don't Pencil Out Of the people who plan to buy an electric car, only 11 percent cite environmental concerns as their top reason... |
| Why Growth Is the Environment's Best Friend The single best thing we could do to minimize energy's impact on the environment is not only maximize our own economic growth but also help developing countries increase theirs... |
| Global Climate Change Impacts in the United States Reducing carbon emission by over 80 percent will have no measurable effect on the global climate... |
| Oil, Gas and Coal Can Prime the Jobs Pump For every hydrocarbon related job (oil, gas and coal), six jobs are added in sectors from manufacturing to information services... |
| The Myth of the Resource Curse Resource rich countries tend to have lower rates of economic growth, and rarely mature into diversified and stable economies... |
| The Paradox of Energy Efficiency Even though there have been technological breakthroughs in fuel and energy efficiency, energy consumption has remained about the same... |
| Is It Time to Stop Putting Food in Our Cars? By 2016, the United States will have diverted up to 43 percent of its cropland to be used for ethanol; this will divert crops for feeding people and livestock... |
| Energy Is Everywhere The poorest populations in the United States pay the highest percentage of their income on indirect energy (5 percent) while the rich only have to pay 1.3 percent of their income... |
| The Ethanol Election Delay The biofuel mandates are responsible for at least 192,000 premature deaths every year because of hunger... |
