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Are Small-Scale Environmental-Protection Efforts a Waste of Time?

comments (1) November 8th, 2011 in Blogs

Scott Gibson, contributing writer

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GreenBuildingAdvisor senior editor Martin Holladay came across a column in The New York Times that got him thinking. The subject? Whether the actions that indivdiuals take on a personal level really help curbing carbon emissions and slow the rate of global climate change.

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The columnist contends that nothing indivduals do will have the kind of impact the green-building community would like to see. The problems are just too overwhelming.

Worse, small steps taken by indivduals are actually a distraction from government policy solutions that have a chance at working.

In a Q&A post at GBA, Holladay shares the columnist's basic premise and asks for comment.

That's the subject of this week's Q&A Spotlight.

Read the whole article at Green Building Advisor

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brewdesign writes: From Wikipedia: "In 2001 the carbon emissions from coal use in China made up about 10% of the world total CO2 emissions at the time.[23] By 2004 this fraction rose to 14%.[24] It is believed that a continued increase in coal power in China may undermine international initiatives to decrease carbon emissions such as the Kyoto Protocol, which called for a decrease of 483 million tons by 2012. In the same time frame, it is expected that coal plants in China will have increased CO2 emissions by 1,926 million tons — over 4 times the proposed reduction.[25]"
Posted: 2:22 pm on November 9th

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