Wednesday, September 2, 2009
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Environmentality
World in 10 seconds
Hold your breath for 10 seconds and watch what happens
How Much Longer?
British Antarctic Survey scientist David Vaughn predicted that the northern part of the Wilkins ice shelf would likely collapse 15 years from now. About 4% of the shelf now collapsed and scientists discovered the rest of the shelf is beginning to break away from the continent.
Environment and Vegetarianism
"One acre of beans produces ten times more protein than an acre of pasture set aside for meat production." -Higher Taste
Recent Collapse
On March 25, 2008 a 160 square mile chunk of the Wilkins Ice Shelf in Antartica disintegrated. This loss, about 7 times the size of Manhattan, puts an even larger portion of the glacial ice shelf at risk.
North pole was here
