Seldom has a satellite image conveyed quite so much useful information quite so easily:
From Yale Simkin, in the comments at the Arms Control Wonk. That’s one approach, I guess, to energy conservation.
jfleck at inkstain
A few thoughts from John Fleck, a writer of journalism and other things, living in New Mexico
Definitely information… but whats the moral?
Horrific failed states with evil dictators and collapsed economies don’t use much electricity. Not sure this would be the ideal post-Kyoto path, but it’s one option.
just…wow
John,
This image focuses a discussion that friends and I have been having.
If I have $10 that I am willing to take out of my own pocket and spend for the betterment of the planet, where should I spend it and why?
Should I put it into the New York stock market, Greenpeace, a small company in the well lit South Korea, or should I buy some batteries and light bulbs and send them to the unlit North Korea?
Where should the $10 go?
Note also the fishing lights off the coast. Why lights? They’re fishing for squid. The yummier fish are fished out.
Best,
D