The Economic Cost of Devastating Hurricanes and Other Extreme Weather Events Is Even Worse Than We Thought
irming up the math on the economic cost of climate change makes a bad picture look worse.
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Could Air Travel Become an Early Casualty of Climate Change?
Might air travel take a serious hit from climate change before polic-makers work up the nerve to intervene?
Read more...Ecological Importance and Human Rights Be Damned, Trump Admin Says Fossil Fuel Pillaging in Arctic Refuge Coming Soon
Interior administration official promises to offer fossil fuel leases for sale in 2019 to allow drilling in previously pristine Alaska’s Arctic National Wildlife Refuge to commence.
Read more...How Shortening the Work Week Can Help Reduce Carbon Emissions
The four-day week as a management technique vs. cutting back working hours to reduce consumption: One, both, or neither?
Read more...The Electric Vehicle Revolution Will Come from China — not the US
Chinese electric vehicle sales already amount to more than half of the world’s total – and car makers and battery manufacturers are working hard to grow even faster
Read more...Documenting the Train Wreck: Atmospheric CO2 Is Now Higher Than Ever in Human History, and Rising
CO2 levels have crossed a threshold that ought to be causing alarms, yet the finding was just another news story. What can be done to cut through the climage complacency?
Read more...EPA Changes Math to Allow Burning of More Coal
EPA proposes methodology change to allow states to opt to burn more coal.
Read more...The Bad News About Nudges: They Might Be Backfiring
Public policy nudges devised by fans of behavioral scientst Richard Thaler might not be all that they are cracked up to be.
Read more...Waste Watch: Fashion Stumbles on Sustainability
The fashion industry struggles to be more sustainable – is the answer more regulation, or can the industry reform on its own?
Read more...Plastic and Climate Change: The Hidden Costs of a Plastic Planet
New CIEL study documents how plastic proliferation threatens the climate on a global scale.
Read more...After Standing Rock, Protesting Pipelines Can Get You a Decade in Prison and $100K in Fines
Five states have enacted draconian laws after protests against the Dakota Access Pipeline generated national attention and inspired a wave of civil disobedience.
Read more...How to Pay for the War
Updating a classic Keynes discussion of war financing for MMT and the Green New Deal.
Read more...Peak Gasoline Vehicles Is Already Here
Some rare good news on the climate change front: a demand peak for gas guzzlers.
Read more...Permaculture, the Health of the Soil, and Climate Change
Permacultural practices can successfully return carbon to the soil, forming a carbon sink.
Read more...“There Is No Alternative” to Managing the Economy and the Climate
Why the US needs to embrace an industiral policy to combat climate change.
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