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Posted by David Roberts at 5:07 PM on 11 Apr 2007

Another blog that's recently become required reading for me: Mode Shift, a blog on urban sustainability from Keith Schneider, founder of the Michigan Land Use Institute.

Yesterday brought a somewhat surprising post on big plans afoot to make Knoxville, Tenn. (among other places) a model of sustainable, healthy living. Y'all may or may not know that I was born in Knoxville, and went to college close to there, and I'm here to tell you that it's the last place I would ever think would get on the sustainable bandwagon. Goes to show how much things have changed, I guess ...

Roger Pielke Jr.....again

Okay, so now the guy is an expert on the economics of international travel.

From an article in the conservative New York Sun:

A professor of environmental studies at the University of Colorado, Roger Pielke Jr., said calls to reduce international tourism will impact local economies long before global warming. "The effects they will have, to the extent people follow them, will be more immediate and much larger on tourist destinations than will the effects of climate change, which will take place over decades or more," the professor said. "Until someone invents an airplane that runs on non-greenhouse gas-polluting fuel, it really is an intractable part of the problem. Why not do the easier things first?"

So here's my question: Is there anything....ANYTHING!....for which Roger Pielks Jr. is NOT an expert?

Benny Big Eye

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