China's carbon emissions

According to Professor Garnaut, if current rates of growth continue, China's carbon emissions will triple by 2030 (22 years time when I'm 75) and they will then make up 37% of global emissions — three times those of the US.

Mountain Gorillas

There are a mere 780 mountain gorillas in the world.

northern polar icecap

Since 1979 more than 20% of the polar icecap has melted away. It once covered an area of the Arctic Ocean about the size of Australia.

Woodside = polluter, destroyer of heritage

According to the normally innocuous RACV mag, in the Pilbara on the Burrup Penninsula there is a fenced off area numbered rocks a kept with petroglyphs on them, removed in the 60s by Woodside, and now they are doing it again - removing another 165 sites. In the 60s you could say we knew no better, now the destruction of art on the Burrup Peninsula is inexcusable. Why is there no outcry?

Woodside Petroleum is considered by some to be Australia's worst polluter  - its acidic emissions are a threat to the art the company hasn't removed to make way for development.

silly names

In terms of silly business names this one takes the cake:

Lifestyle Corporate Wellness International

In four words it captures all the fatuousness of the worst of the personal training industry.

Ethanol

Ethanol is one form of biofuel.
US subsidies of $US8b led to 13.5% of the US corn crop being diverted to ethanol and inflated corn prices by 70%.
Australian Lot Feeders Association quoted by BRW Nov 07

Tropical deforestation contribution to GHG

20% according to Tim Flannery