Open Question: Top CO2 emitters? Concrete = 5%, tourism trade = 5%, and poor countries can’t reduce THOSE, so, what others?
The New York Times (10/30 and 11/1) wrote that manufacturing concrete can’t be reduced by developing countries, and that tourism’s air travel, conditioning, cars and buses give many poor countries their number one (and sometimes only) source of foreign currency, without which they’ll implode. Any thing else this big and discrete a carbon footprint? That hopefully we can do something about besides tell poor countries to eat dirt?

Fri, 02 Nov 2007 06:12:52 GMT
HK banks cut rates, currency retreats from ceiling
International Business Times: Hong Kong banks on Thursday said they would cut their prime lending rates in line with a reduction in U.S. borrowing costs, while the Hong Kong dollar eased away from the ceiling of its trading band with the U.S. dollar.

Open Thread and Diary Rescue
Open Thread and Diary Rescue(Tonight’s selections are brought to you courtesy of the Rescue Rangers. SusanG) This evening’s Rescue Rangers are pico, hhex65, twilight falling, shayera, Cordelia Lear, joyful and srkp23, with watercarrier4diogenes with his Gryffindor 1st Year robes on at the wheel of editmobile. Tonight’s diaries…Read the full post from Daily KosTags: Open Thread, diary rescue
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Sat, 3 Nov 2007 00:25:53 EDT

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