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Jim Roland’s second of his 3 part series
Green Tax
Jim Roland’s second of his 3 part series Hi-lighting the humanHi’s and lo’s of climate change – Green Tax
Solving the 'green tax' conundrum
Will opposition to 'green taxes' derail meaningful efforts to fight climate change, or is there another way?
We have a long way to go to cut our carbon emissions. The sort of cuts we need to make are in the realms of 80% worldwide by 2050, even as the number of affluent people in the world will have grown considerably. This is not just to avoid a few more heat-waves and hurricanes. Warming has already desertified large parts of Australia and is drying the south-western United States and southern Europe. Himalayan ice, the source of the great rivers of India and China, is receding, threatening the food supply of hundreds of millions if warming proceeds much beyond 2°C above scientists' baseline (or 1.2°C warmer than now). Such warming itself threatens rapid melting of the West Antarctic and Greenland Ice sheets, which could mean major sea level rises (of around 15 to 50 feet) within decades, rather than centuries.
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Biofuels
Ecologist Jim Roland writes the first of his shocking 3 part series Hi-lighting the humanHi’s and lo’s of climate change – Starting with biofuels.
“The World Food Programme has estimated that the diversion of food for fuel is 30% to blame for recent food price rises”.
‘In Expectation of the Thaw’
A musical Ice Palace under the Northern Lights
The Arctic Circle, March 2009
In March 2009 the world’s largest igloo will be the setting for an unforgettable experience blending music, film and sculpture deep within the Arctic Circle.
World Premiere
In the frozen forests of Finnish Lapland an extraordinary experience will grow out of the natural environment. Using snow and ice cut directly from the rivers and lakes, the largest ice domed structure in the world will be created for the World Premiere of a new work by young film composer Rhett Brewer.
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