The world faces some big shocks in the realms of sustainability and climate change, and the ways of thinking about the future described in Nassim Nicholas Taleb’s book, The Black Swan, will come in handy. But two competing black swans — climate change itself or worldwide action to pursue sustainability — both of which seem unlikely, are competing. Let’s hope the second one wins.
The New York Times’ Ross Douthat relies on a set of arguments against the pursuit of a clean economy that have little basis in fact and mainly defend the untenable status quo. The overall pitch has two main parts: (a) promoting a clean economy through the use of market mechanisms like cap-and-trade is a perversion of free markets…(b) going green will cost jobs and hurt the economy. Let’s look at both ideas.
I know it’s difficult for the average person to believe, but how we use energy and what we drive actually connects directly to the price of bread. And it doesn’t really take that many “degrees of Kevin Bacon” to connect the dots.
Al Gore wrote an article in the New Republic this week making an interesting connection between the oil spill and the continuing polluting of our
In case you missed it, Senator Lindsay Graham, who has been a lone voice of reason on climate from the right side of the aisle,
Earth Day week is filled with announcements, events, and parties — way too much for any one person to follow. I spent the week in
There’s an interesting/sad/frustrating piece in the NY Times today on the rift between meteorologists and climate scientists on the science of climate change. Basically, weathermen
We are coming out of our long, national nightmare. One of the dirtiest political fights in memory is over (sort of). But if you think
The debate rages on about whether the science is ‘clear’ on climate, and whether the errors that have come to light recently cast doubt on
I must have done something wrong to someone today because I feel like I’m in some kind of surreal dream. The day started well with
