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Our oceans are turning into plastic

Spotted over at 10 Signs Like This, a link to an interesting argument about global warming that boils it down to a choice between two risks. Which risk would you take?

These Come From Trees

Up, up and away and CO2 neutral

I opened a checking account at our local credit union last week. (BofA outsources their tech support and charges a $6 monthly maintenance fee, so I’m dumping them.) My box of checks arrived yesterday, wrapped in plastic. Recyclable #2 plastic.
Now that’s the way things outta be. Don’tcha hate plastic that isn’t marked? [...]

Link to article on Common Dreams
Snippet:
Last year researchers at the University of Chicago took the Prius down a peg when they turned their attention to another gas guzzling consumer purchase. They noted that feeding animals for meat, dairy, and egg production requires growing some ten times as much crops as we’d need if we just [...]

Up until last Thursday, I didn’t have a driver’s license, which is unusual for the area that we live in (small Southern city, lots of suburbs and other small cities connected by the highway system, rural areas close by). I gotten into a couple of nasty wrecks in quick succession, several years ago, and [...]