24 tons of CO2e per year is what the average American generates, & we need to get to 2 (TWO) tons of CO2e per capita globally by 2050 to prevent runaway climate change. IF it's not too late already. According to Lord Nicholas Stern, former Chief Economist & Senior VP of the World Bank, now Chair of the Grantham Institute for Climate Change & the Environment at the London School of Economics, from which he graduated several decades ago.
This article ran Oct. 18, but the take-away message is how he makes the reduction that needs to be made very concrete.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/cif-green/2009/oct/18/nicholas-stern-carbon-emission
24 tons of CO2e per year is what the average American generates, & we need to get to 2 (TWO) tons of CO2e per capita globally by 2050 to prevent runaway climate change. IF it's not too late already. According to Lord Nicholas Stern, former Chief Economist & Senior VP of the World Bank, now Chair of the Grantham Institute for Climate Change & the Environment at the London School of Economics, from which he graduated several decades ago.
This article ran Oct. 18, but the take-away message is how he makes the reduction that needs to be made very concrete.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/cif-green/2009/oct/18/nicholas-stern-carbon-emission
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