Friday, February 8, 2013

Working less would slow climate change, group argues

CBC: Want to save the planet? Stop going to work. That's the conclusion of a report from Washington think-tank the Center for Economic and Policy Research this week. The report makes the claim that even a 0.5 per cent annual reduction in the length of the average workweek could be enough to cut between eight and 22 per cent of every degree of global warming that's expected between now and 2100. The CEPR is a left-leaning think-tank based in Washington, D.C. Although scientific opinion on the topic...

URL: http://www.cbc.ca/news/business/story/2013/02/08/business-environment-work.html
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