Musings from beneath the kalpataru tree

For those so inclined to put the well-being of scrub grass before that of your fellow man, rejoice:

The "dirty thirty", a term first coined by green group WWF in 2005, belched some 387.8 million tonnes of CO2 in 2008, down 1.9 percent from 2007. Analysts estimate this number will drop further this year as the global economic downturn severely erodes EU industrial production.

Steelmakers are expected to be largely absent from the list next year as EU steel production figures were down 44 percent year on year in May, according to Barclays Capital.

The next trick, exactly how does one explain the benefits of being unemployed to a steel-worker and live to see another day?