Commodore Kangaroo
Have you had a chance to read the New Yorker profile of Sea Shepherd Society's Paul Watson yet? If not, be sure to. It's "Neptune's Navy" by Raffi Khatchadourian, and, though it's very long, it's well worth the read. But I confess it's the James Nachtwey photo that runs with the piece that inspired the title of this post. I just couldn't help it. Mustachioed and slightly pudgy in his pompadour and p-coat, the loathed and revered eco-vigilante and former Sierra Club Board member (he resigned in protest last year) looks like a cross between Commodore Perry and Captain Kangaroo. And in some way, that seems to capture Watson's essence: He is a strange mix of the righteous and the ridiculous. I found it fascinating.
Also catch the video and audio features that accompany the piece online.
And, finally, from the same issue of the magazine, see Elizabeth Kolbert's "Running On Fumes," on why the "car of the future" may never become the car of the present.
Also catch the video and audio features that accompany the piece online.
And, finally, from the same issue of the magazine, see Elizabeth Kolbert's "Running On Fumes," on why the "car of the future" may never become the car of the present.
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Nov. 5 (Bloomberg) -- Now that the price of coal is at a historic low relative to oil, there's no stopping consumers and producers alike from embracing Al Gore's nightmare.
A ton of U.S. coal is so cheap at about $47 that European utilities will pay $50 to ship it across the Atlantic, according to Galbraith's Ltd., a 263-year-old London shipbroker. While oil and coal cost the same as recently as 1998, West Texas Intermediate crude is five times more expensive after climbing to a record $96.24 on Nov. 1.
Peabody Energy Corp., Consol Energy Inc. and Arch Coal Inc., the three biggest U.S. coal companies, forecast the largest increase in exports in 20 years, degrading the call for a moratorium on coal plants by former U.S. Vice President and this year's Nobel Peace Prize winner Al Gore. Coal use worldwide has grown 27 percent since 2002, three times faster than crude, said BP Plc. U.S. East Coast coal has risen 71 percent, while oil tripled on the New York Mercantile Exchange.
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