Gaius Publius: Considering the Coming Megadrought in the American Southwest
The megadrought is coming….and it is not pretty.
Read more...The megadrought is coming….and it is not pretty.
Read more...The US is not surprisingly, going to miss 2020 greenhouse gas targets by a big margin. What will policymakers do?
Read more...More on soft climate denial: acknowledging that climate change is a serious threat but being unwilling to take sufficient steps to combat it.
Read more...On why the case for combatting climate change is more urgent than ever, and what can be done about it.
Read more...China has plenty of reason to curb its emissions and has shown that it is serious about doing it.
Read more...Floods are an under-recognized economic and political risk….
Read more...Fast fashion imposes high hidden costs, especially to the environmental. Waste, pollution, and a high carbon footprint are the most serious. Consumers can make choices that mitigate some of these deleterious effects.
Read more...Obama talks the climate change talk, but his policies continue to support increased US fossil fuel production, especially via fracking.
Read more...Following a federal court decision to deny an injunction blocking the Dakota Access pipeline, three federal agencies impose a limited, “voluntary” temporary halt on construction of one small section.
Read more...A long road is ahead for humanity in adjusting to our new circumstances but we must now act at times before we are comfortable doing so. Such is the nature of our climate emergency.
Read more...Jerri-Lynn here. This short post highlights an important problem that we’ve seen arise over and over again with the administration which pledged to be the most transparent ever: the disconnect between public rhetoric and behind-the-scenes practice. The U.S. Department of the Interior’s Bureau of Land Management (BLM) presides over the allocation of oil and gas […]
Read more...Policy implementing the Maine Solid Waste hierarchy should be justified using emergy as the unit of account, and not dollars.
Read more...Why the Democratic party plans for taking on climate change are grossly inadequate.
Read more...A debate on sustainable growth versus degrowth.
Read more...How Portland is working to cut its greenhouse gas emissions by 80% and reduce its environmental load on other fronts.
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