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Posted by: property 2 months, 1 week agoThe global property industry could pay a high price for moving too slowly to shrink its colossal carbon footprint, a report to a United Nations conference on the environment said on Wednesday.
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Klarissa2 months, 1 week ago
let's move the Un out of the US - that would save tons of CO2 - Airplane trips, limousines, and the usual hot air from the members.
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libsRfunny2 months, 1 week ago
How the hell are "buildings" supposed to control how far people drive to and from them?
Liberals complain about real threats from terrorism yet bend over backward to try to scare people into buying into the global warming BS. Al Gore must be laughing all the way to the bank even as he increases his own "carbon footprint" by at least 10 percent in a year.
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DropkickaLib2 months, 1 week ago
Given the corruption scandals that have hit the U.N. one after another, why should we give this opinion any credence? Another trick to fill U.N. officials pockets.
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MajJohn2 months, 1 week ago
This was a good post, it gives me another opportunity to say, "screw the UN".
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antibrainwasher2 months, 1 week ago
let the republican anti-environment, anti-science, global warming denyers, zenophobic, ignorant I love George Bush shill, circle jerk begin. Behold, the loyalists to the failed policys of the murderous party of big oil, make the rich richer, status quo worshipping, swiftboating cynics, who wouldn't lift a finger or change even one aspect of their lives to help this country.
The usa consumes 25% of all energy, yet has 5% of the population. Vote republican if you want four more years of this cycnicsm and cowadice.
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antibrainwasher2 months, 1 week ago
Its amazing that on propeller, there is a community of Republican big oil propaganda paid shills who introduce these stories just to have their daily circle jerk.
Not suprising that Propeller/AOL/Time Warner, the worlds second largest media outlet next to News corp, owned by Rupurt Murdock, both hard right conservative right wing owned and operated, would tolerate this republican swiftboating approach to the news.
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antibrainwasher2 months, 1 week ago
Yeah, imaging the chutzpah, having a polity critical of wasteful transportation and city planning, putting employment out in a cornfield to save money for the company at the expence of empolyees burning thousands of gallons of gas to get there.
Let take republcians seriously, put their oil companies headquarters in dubai, let them get the hell out of this country, commute to Dubai, follow Cheney to work. Good riddance.
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antibrainwasher2 months, 1 week ago
The UN was inspecting Iraq WMD and shouting there was none, of course a Bush sock puppet would hate that.
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bigurn2 months, 1 week ago
This scheme looks like the work of a governmental agency to exert pressure on the free market, to bend the to its will. It seeks to move money from one place to another, potentially against the needs of the marketplace. As such it could do more harm than good.
This is income redistribution masked as ecological policy.
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antibrainwasher2 months, 1 week ago
What your really saying, is that you won't change a thing you have or do, to make this country have a sustainable economy, with a CO2 output that is not going to kill the planet.
What you're saying, is city planning by real estate developer, with no thought to transportation, or logistics, is the American way, and let the rich developers keep on turning corn fields into planned communities farther and farther from the cities, cause the rich are the ones who know best. Trust Donald Trump to do our city planning.
Vote republican, for four more years of this worshipping of the make the rich richer, big oil burning, status quo cowardice.
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schmirt2 months, 1 week ago
The UN was not "shouting to the world" there was no WMD. At most, some inspectors may have had doubts but still could not prove the case either way and some personally felt only a confirmation of WMD stockpiles may justify war. However,the justifications for invasion were never over stockpiles of WMD but the inability of inspections to clear up uncertainties over weapons programs as long as the Iraq tyrant refused to cooperate.
Call me a brainwashed sock puppet all you want but your statement parrots the partisan madness from a mind infected with revisionism.
As far as the UN, all I can say is that it is not the institution romanticized about in the past.
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Wolfie20072 months, 1 week ago
The global property industry, I've never heard of that industry before but I guess this is a shot by the UN to relieve them of a portion of their property. lol
I'm trying to think of one good thing the UN has done in my lifetime. Nope, can't think of a thing. Let's throw um out of the country. Maybe they would like it better in North Korea.
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antibrainwasher2 months, 1 week ago
Sorry to burst in on your circular logic circle jerk, but the UN was trying to scream there was no WMD in Iraq, but you'd rather just keep on shouting them down with your cynicism and ignorance, and send 4500 americans to their death for a Republican lie.
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Natureboy2 months, 1 week ago
"I'm trying to think..."
Yeah, like that would ever happen.
"Nope, can't think of a thing."
Now, that's an accurate representation of your personal status quo.
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svensun2 months, 1 week ago
This sort of stuff out of the UN just reinforces my belief that the entire radical environmental movement today is simply made up of Marxists who've undergone an ECO-EXTREME MAKEOVER.
I believe that GREEN is the NEW RED, and this report, which is simply a thinly disguised argument for land redistribution, Marxist style, illustrates it.
The big difference is that 100 years ago, the Marxists proclaimed they were acting on behalf of the 'proletariat'; well, the proletariat told Marxists to BUZZ OFF decades ago, so without a 'victim' to 'struggle' on behalf of, the Marxists settled on birds, bugs, plants and trees, instead. These make the PERFECT Marxist 'victims'; they are quite 'willing' dupes, NEVER protesting or resisting as those pesky proletarians did, for instance in Hungary in 1956, Prague in 1968, Moscow and Peking in 1989.
All the Marxists had to do was change some of their rhetoric; oh, and their colors, too.
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svensun2 months, 1 week ago
BTW, they also moved from a theory of 'economic determinism', the economic dialectic, to a theory of 'environmental determinism', the theory of human-induced, global catastrophism, otherwise known as Anthropogenic Global Climate Change. In either case, the main villains remain the same: capitalism and liberty.
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DropkickaLib2 months, 1 week ago
Brilliant! Attacking the free market is the only way to justify redistributing wealth to the untalented, i.e. the U.N.'s leadership.
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antibrainwasher2 months, 1 week ago
The unregulate free market you worship gave us the Great Depression, the Real Estate Crash/Scandal of the 80's, and the current mortgage disaster, Enron scandal, energy policy developed by big oil companies for their own benifit which is unsustainable.
Its time to step back from your capitalist religion, it doesn't work for all thing at all times. It doesn't work for health care, and energy policy, or city planning for starters. In fact, its a disaster.
Stop worshipping and brownnosing the rich, and start thinking like a person who gives a crap about the country our children will inherit.
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antibrainwasher2 months, 1 week ago
Absolutely correct Grr, the only thing republicans give a crap about is how much money they are making turning corn fields into planned golf communities, then letting the city taxes pay for roads out to them.
They worship money, to hell with responibility to their own children, who will inherit money, but not a sustatinable energy policy. Better to choke the children, than to ever sacrifice profit.
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svensun2 months, 1 week ago
Grrr,
Don't waste all that time typing, instead of having to spell out 'Principles for Responsible Investment', just call it by its REAL name:
MARXISM
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Fastrealestateus2 months, 1 week ago
Amazing they are going to use this global warming bad guy to tax the life out of everything they can find - some legal action might be in order http://attorneys.fastrealestate.net might be worth a look.
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neohk2 months, 1 week ago
The way to cut the travel distance is either reduce the size of the Earth to a point or build a great building that contains the Earth. Either way we dont even need to travel from building to building , lol.
OK,seriously, if they roll over and die, they can reduce the carbon production in respairation processes... No wait, decomposition releases carbon dioxide too! Oh my god, the world's gonna end like that? Hell no.
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panzerv2 months, 1 week ago
Oh, so the U.N. can demand results to global warming, but bush, cheney, rumsfeld, powell, and ashcroft can march in there and flat out lie about Iraq and Afghanistan, and they do nothing. I think maybe the U.N. is overrated. Might be time to move on.
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antibrainwasher2 months, 1 week ago
Kind of like the old days, when Rush Lamebaugh was popping 50 oxycottons a day, and ditto heads were all the rage, back when Summner Redstone was paying Rush to parrot the neocon think tanks and there was no opposition.
Those were the days......
But all good things must come to an end. Lying to start a neocon fantasy war and murdering 500,000 Iraqi's, financial devistation, global warming denying, attacking science and replacing it with creationist lies to brainwash an entire generation of children, and the realization that its all unsustainable, and that the US has exposed itself by the election of the stupidest president ever, to be the stupidest first world nation on the planet.
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TonyByron2 months, 1 week ago
FTA: "It said investors could exert crucial influence on property fund managers to invest in sustainable property, and reap significant financial benefits from savings on operating costs and higher rents from tenants."
Sweet deal, save on costs while at the same time charging renters more for the privilege of being in a "green" building. That's how you get rich by going green.
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neohk2 months, 1 week ago
Speaking of UN, I think there are good things and bad things about them.
At least they are helping the poor kids,right?
However I hope that there is gonna be a change as the UN is not able to work efficiently. I don't understand the voting system actually. Why should the permanent members have veto power? If one day a policy harms a member's interest, it will again cause inefficiencies.
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