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The Olympic Torch

Article from Slate
The Carbon Olympics: Keeping track of the Olympic torch's carbon footprint — one leg at a time.
By Chadwick Matlin

The 2008 Olympic torch relay has not exactly inspired warm feelings of international cooperation, as in years past. Pro-Tibetan activists mounted protests in Paris and London, and even managed to force the extinguishing of the flame on a few occasions. But in the long run, the torch could generate more pollution than political dissent. Its journey across the world (and back again) is leaving a historic trail of CO2 emissions.

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