The tourist wonders: is mosquito coil smoke hazardous to my health? Those wishing to enjoy mosquito-free summertime evenings at home may ask: what kind of toxins is mosquito coil smoke releasing into my home environment? Is exposure to these fumes safe for children?
People seem to fall into two camps when it comes to weighing the benefits of mosquito coils. Some worry about toxins released by burning mosquito coils; others dismiss the health concern, considering the smoky coils a prudent precaution to thwart insects and the serious diseases they may harbor, most notably, dengue fever and malaria.
The answer to all these questions is most unsettling.
Thursday, June 25, 2009
Monday, June 22, 2009
Can we afford cap and trade?
Krugman blogs:
A while back I wrote about anti-green economics — the insistence, by opponents of policies to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, that the economic cost of cap-and-trade would be immense and unsupportable. I cited Robert Samuelson, who ridiculed the Environmental Defense Fund for suggesting that major action on greenhouse gases would only cost a dime a day per person.
Now comes the Congressional Budget Office, which estimates the cost to households of Waxman-Markey in 2020 at $22 billion — which, given a projected population of 335 million, comes to 18 cents a day. Hah! EDH was being over-optimistic. Seriously, EDF was essentially right: the costs of cap-and-trade are very, very low.
We can afford it.
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