Emitting carbon to reduce carbon emissions??

Harry Shannon Some years ago, McDonald’s in Canada had an ad campaign using the line: “There’s a little McDonald’s in everyone.” Meaningless, of course, but I assume it worked to sell their food (or, as some people would argue, their ‘food’). Then the Toronto Star ran an article about how the population is getting too fat becau…

“I’d do anything for my kids” … except leave them a world they can live in

Harry Shannon Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison admitted in a press conference today that he won’t change his government’s climate policy.  “We mine and export coal, and burn it here to produce electricity.  It’s just too important for the economy not to do it,” he said. When reporters asked him about the future fo…