Will Climate Engineering Really Save Us? Do Me a Favour
Tech-utopian hero worship, here in the form of geo-engineering hopium, is one of the social scourges of our time.
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The Law Firm Helping Big Oil Weaponize the First Amendment
Gibson Dunn is “playing both sides” of free speech, using it to defend Big Oil and silence the industry’s critics.
Read more...Doctors Raise Alarm on Dropping Global Fertility Rate, Environmental Pollutants Cited
A new paper on dropping fertility rates urges policies to increase them, ignoring resource constraints and environment degradation.
Read more...Fixing the Panama Canal
The impact of the reduction in Panama Canal capacity illustrates choices we will have to make. Some are more pro-survival than others
Read more...Unhappy New Year: How Austerity is Making a Comeback in Berlin and Brussels
How EU states are still trapped in their self-devised austerity hairshirt.
Read more...Permafrost, Methane and Climate Change
Yet another climate change accelerant not getting remotely the attention warranted: permafrost melt.
Read more...Huge Capital Investment Required for U.S. Electric Industry’s Decarbonization
Electric utilities face massive costs to end their use of fossil fuels in power generation. What does that mean for consumers and the public?
Read more...How to Make Recyclable Plastics Out of CO2 to Slow Climate Change
Chemists are manipulating carbon dioxide to make plastics for clothing, mattresses, shoes, and more.
Read more...World Bank Enables Private Capture of Profits, Public Resources
The World Bank insists on private finance or economic recovery but does little to ensure profit-hungry commercial finance serves the public
Read more...This Generation’s Problem: Climate Chaos
Climate-change-induced extreme events look more and more imminent.
Read more...Is It Time To Embrace Geoengineering?
A long and useful recap of geoengineering methods.
Read more...Keep Capitalism Out of Conservation
Trying to use capitalsm to justify environmental protection: not a happy mix.
Read more...Big Meat and Dairy Delegates Triple at COP28
Big Ag fights back at COP28
Read more...‘A Sick Joke’: Six Ways of Looking at a COP
Making sense of this COP means looking at optics and interests, and sadly not outcomes.
Read more...Solving the Climate Crisis Means Ending Our Addiction to Economic Growth
COP28 may toy with wide-ranging reforms needed to arrest a climate disaster. But arguablly necessary governance structures seem unattainable.
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