A comparison of standards of living on several variables among the world’s wealthiest nations. Interesting presentation that encompasses both the underlying complexity of the United States but also its failures in a number of areas.
From Charles Blow, New York Times, February 20, 2011.
via thedeepz
Sadly, this is my list right now :(
ExxonSecrets.org : Exxon’s Biggest $$ Winners
ExxonSecrets is a Greenpeace research project highlighting the more than a decade-long campaign by Exxon-funded front groups - and the scientists they work with - to deny the urgency of the scientific consensus on global warming and delay action to fix the problem.Check out the wiki and FAQ to see Exxon’s complex web of organizations, pundits, lobbyists and skeptic scientists running around to deny and undermine the scientific evidence on global warming. More maps here.
yep.
I’d sign up:
ideasareawesome: What if all 300,000,000 Americans lived in one place, packed as densely as Brooklyn? Where would we fit?
Why Americans don’t need the government telling them what to eat. This graph shows the US federal subsidies for food production over a decade ending in 2005. As we can see, there is a HUGE contrast between what the US federal government recommends and what they subsidise. According to the Federal Nutrition Recommendations, meat and dairy should comprise approximately 25% of our intake. So why do these industries receive a full 75% of subsidies? In stark contrast, we see that fruit and veg only get 0.37% of subsidies!
The lower the subsidies, the higher the pricing as it costs more for the industry to produce. So is it any wonder the US have an obesity problem? The solution is not to tax junk food, it is to ELIMINATE SUBSIDIES and accordingly eliminate price controls. Incentives do a lot more good than penalties.image seen in Good Medicine
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