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kleinbl00  ·  4145 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: World Bank report on a +4°C future

Junk food does not make the following list:

http://www.environment911.org/164.The_Worlds_5_Biggest_Pollu...

Further, teenagers are generally not responsible for their family's purchases, they are merely influencers. Even if teenagers ran on coal and wood pulp you can't hold them responsible unless they're the ones cutting the checks.

"Cash for clunkers" was an economic strategy couched in environmental terms. The most common durable goods purchased by consumers are automobiles and appliances and all the appliances are made in China. Considering the automotive industry in the United States was heading the way of British Leyland, a boondoggle to get everyone buying cars wasn't a bad play. You get to soothe the oil independence libertarians through raising the fleet fuel economy. You get to soothe the hippies by getting a bunch of gas guzzlers off the road. You get to sop the midwest with red meat by aiding the auto industry through good old-fashioned capitalism (sorta). And you inject a bunch of money into the economy in a vein NOT controlled by the banking industry, everyone's favorite villain.