Two very important environmental issues…

Laws of Nature: Ocean Fishing – NRDC

“It is under the water that this silent collapse is occouring.
Unless we take steps to protect the oceans now we are going to out of fish my mid century.”
-Sarah Chasis
[youtube]http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=sFgZAO_nisw[/youtube]

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Crude Substitute: The Folly of Liquid Coal
America is facing critical choices about its energy future; how do we fulfill our energy needs AND combat global warming? The coal industry wants to turn coal into a liquid transportation fuel. But liquid coal would have devastating impacts on our economy, our communities and our environment.

“The Coal Industry is after the taxpayers wallet to subsidize the coal industry because Wall Street is smart enough to realize what a bad investment it is. They can’t get the money from the private sector on Wall Street, so they’re going to congress. And they are baisicly trying to have congress lay the bill and all the economic risk on to the American consumer.”
-David Hawkins

“To replace just 10% of the oil we use in this country with liquid coal, we would have to increase coal mining by 40%. We would exacerbate all the effects from coal mining… like mountain top removal.”
-Elizabeth Martin Perera

Solutions?
The best thing we can do is start with the cleanest energy resources first:
-Conservation & Energy Efficiency
-Renewable Energy, Solar, Wind, Biomass
-Clean energy from coal by capturing the CO2 emmissions and pollution
-Smart growth policies

[youtube]http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=NC8OhWBwDqE[/youtube]