Never hear the libertarians whining about these (in addition to these):
A Harvard law professor theoretically engaged in climate work was caught lobbying the Securities and Exchange Commission on behalf of oil giant Conoco Phillips, which it turns out pays her $350,000 a year. I guess the only conclusion is that Harvard needs to pay its professors more (which should be possible because a grad—identified as the GOP’s ‘top megadonor’—gave them a $300 million gift yesterday, in return for which they will name their graduate school in his honor).
Meanwhile in academia, Chris Jones—perhaps the top critic of the environmental impacts of industrial agriculture in Iowa—resigned his post at the state’s university after unrelenting pressure from corporate interests. His new book, Swine Republic, is out next week. If you’re wondering why these interests dislike him, consider the calculations he once performed to show how much waste the state’s farm animals were producing
- Iowa hogs: equivalent to 83.7 million people;
- Dairy cattle: 8.6 million people;
- Beef cattle: 25 million people;
- Laying chickens: 15 million people;
- Turkeys: 900,000 people.
“In total, these five species generate the waste equivalent to that produced by about 134 million people, which would place Iowa as the 10th most populous country in the world, right below Russia and right above Mexico.”
Via Bill McKibben
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