The Times (September 30)
“Britain appears happier to offshore our pollution rather than risk it at home.” This facile approach ignores the cost. “The most direct cost is felt by workers with skills our economy needs. But their communities, the country and the environment also suffer a cost when we chase away unsightly industries.” Ultimately, “It is better for the world’s land, air and water if a country like Britain is invested in monitoring and containing pollution, treating the problems it creates and inventing new products to replace the most damaging ones.”
Tags: Air, Communities, Containing, Cost, Economy, Environment, Facile, Inventing, Land, Monitoring, Offshore, Pollution, Risk, Skills, UK, Unsightly industries, Water, Workers
The Science Times (September 21)
“The Copernicus Atmosphere Monitory Service in Europe has monitored over 100 wildfires in the Arctic” since June. “The ‘zombie fires’ have been the worst this year since reliable monitoring began in 2003.” In June alone, the Arctic fires had already released an amount of carbon comparable “to how much the greenhouse gas is emitted in an entire year from smaller nations like Cuba and Tunisia.”
Tags: Arctic, Carbon, Copernicus, Cuba, Emitted, Europe, GHG, Monitoring, Wildfires
The Economist (August 18)
“It is not just in Italy that questions should be asked about monitoring and maintenance regimes. Bridges throughout Europe, America and Asia are all showing signs of deterioration…. With the world covered in reinforced concrete, this is a problem that spans countries. The failure of the Morandi bridge shows that it must not be ignored.”
Tags: Asia, Bridges, Deterioration, Europe, Failure, Italy, Maintenance, Monitoring, Morandi, Reinforced concrete, U.S.
Financial Times (February 27)
Yahoo’s chief executive, Marissa Mayer, will require employees who previously worked from home to come to the office. “The lesson to draw from Ms Mayer’s whip-cracking – in Silicon Valley, of all places – is that this is an age of harder work. From intense teamwork at the top to monitoring and surveillance at the bottom, managers are squeezing more from employees than they previously would have dared.”
Tags: Employees, Home, Managers, Marissa Mayer, Monitoring, Office, Silicon Valley, Surveillance, Workplace, Yahoo
