Why our obsession with climate change may end up destroying biodiversity
Now, being green is all about greenhouse gases: Neighborhood moms are more apt to fret over food miles than felled forests; organic cattle farmers are more interested in offsetting the methane coming from cow burps than pondering squished tadpoles in hoof prints. Even scientists have grown bored with question of habitat loss, tweaking their grant proposals to emphasize the climate angle no matter how tenuous the connection. Saving the Amazon is so 1980s. Full Story »
Posted by Kaizar Campwala
Population control should get more attention than either species protection or climate change; it is causative. If Obama were advocating a carbon tax, it would be better than cap and trade, which displaces the problems as Borrell complains.