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| | '''Leonardo DiCaprio, actor''' | | '''Leonardo DiCaprio, actor''' |
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| − | Well known Hollywood actor turned environmentalist is highlighting the plight of [[polar bears]] and [[global warming]] however, in doing so, is using reams and reams of unrecycled paper<ref>http://breakingnews.iol.ie/entertainment/story.asp?j=260902300&p=z6x9x3xx6</ref>.
| + | [[Leonardo DiCaprio|DiCaprio]], a well known Hollywood actor turned environmentalist is highlighting the plight of [[polar bears]] and [[global warming]]; however, in doing so, he is using reams and reams of unrecycled paper<ref>http://breakingnews.iol.ie/entertainment/story.asp?j=260902300&p=z6x9x3xx6</ref>. |
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| | '''Oil tanker SS ''Prestige''''' | | '''Oil tanker SS ''Prestige''''' |
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| | Spain, a member of the [[Kyoto]] accords, refused to permit a stricken oil tanker, SS ''Prestige'' into a safe harbor; the reason given was to prevent pollution in Spanish waters. On November 19, 2002, the ''Prestige'' sank in the open ocean, spilling more then 77,000 tons of fuel oil which washed ashore on much of the Atlantic coastal areas of Spain, Portugal, and France. <ref>http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/SC0311/S00074.htm</ref> | | Spain, a member of the [[Kyoto]] accords, refused to permit a stricken oil tanker, SS ''Prestige'' into a safe harbor; the reason given was to prevent pollution in Spanish waters. On November 19, 2002, the ''Prestige'' sank in the open ocean, spilling more then 77,000 tons of fuel oil which washed ashore on much of the Atlantic coastal areas of Spain, Portugal, and France. <ref>http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/SC0311/S00074.htm</ref> |
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| − | ====The New York ''Times'' on waste==== | + | ====''The New York Times'' on waste==== |
| | In an article published in the New York ''Times'' on February 25, 2009, Dr. Allen Hershkowitz of the Natural Resource Defense Council, stated emphatically that “No forest of any kind should be used to make toilet paper.” The writer of the article, Leslie Kaufmann, called her piece "What Mr. Whipple Didn't Say: Softer Paper Is Costly to Forests," seemingly lecturing Americans on wastefulness via the subject of toilet paper, and emphasizing how countries other than America use more recycled content in creating toilet paper than in the U.S. (20% vs. 2% respectively). <ref>http://newsbusters.org/blogs/clay-waters/2009/02/26/dead-tree-hypocrisy-nyt-massive-paper-user-lectures-toilet-paper</ref><ref>http://www.nytimes.com/2009/02/26/science/earth/26charmin.html?_r=1</ref> | | In an article published in the New York ''Times'' on February 25, 2009, Dr. Allen Hershkowitz of the Natural Resource Defense Council, stated emphatically that “No forest of any kind should be used to make toilet paper.” The writer of the article, Leslie Kaufmann, called her piece "What Mr. Whipple Didn't Say: Softer Paper Is Costly to Forests," seemingly lecturing Americans on wastefulness via the subject of toilet paper, and emphasizing how countries other than America use more recycled content in creating toilet paper than in the U.S. (20% vs. 2% respectively). <ref>http://newsbusters.org/blogs/clay-waters/2009/02/26/dead-tree-hypocrisy-nyt-massive-paper-user-lectures-toilet-paper</ref><ref>http://www.nytimes.com/2009/02/26/science/earth/26charmin.html?_r=1</ref> |
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| − | The New York ''Times'' prints over one million newspapers daily; it admitted to an ordinary blogger that its own use of recycled paper is 21% to 28%; he further stated that it ''"takes 75,000 trees to print the Sunday edition of the New York Times"'' <ref>http://ecologycenter.org/recycling/articles/20071115_paper_waste.html</ref>. Taking away the top percentage for recycling leaves well over 50,000 trees cut down. | + | The ''New York Times'' prints over one million newspapers daily; it admitted to an ordinary blogger that its own use of recycled paper is 21% to 28%; he further stated that it ''"takes 75,000 trees to print the Sunday edition of the New York Times"'' <ref>http://ecologycenter.org/recycling/articles/20071115_paper_waste.html</ref>. Taking away the top percentage for recycling leaves well over 50,000 trees cut down. |
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| | ===Hypocritical care for endangered animals=== | | ===Hypocritical care for endangered animals=== |