carbon dioxide emissions & the people walking to the dead end

I’d hate to be on the board of Daimler-Chrysler right now. They haven’t got much going for them it seems – or, as Treehugger puts it << Nothing says “I don’t care” as a shiny new Mercedes >>…
Check out the graphs at Economist.com [via Treehugger]

why do conservatives deny global warming?

A US post, and to some extent valid mostly in the US. However, whenever I meet “denialists” elsewhere, they tend to be die-hard conservatives (ergo, there must be something to it, right?)
Daily Kos (A democrat/liberal blog, quite readable but also very polarized – as the rest of the US political system )

The importance of gay marriage

Americans never fail to amaze (not to say that there’s not plenty of Americans – the tens of millions of them – that aren’t from another planet) me… Check these (rather old but most likely still valid to a large extent) stats out.
 http://feeds.treehugger.com/~r/treehuggersite/~3/149717901/americans_care.php