The first world-wide protest against global warming, via The New Zealand Herald.
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The Offical Beer of Yosemite
Having successfully privatized a great deal of access to undeveloped national forest and BLM lands, the GOP now is targeting the national parks. According to Jeff Ruch, director of Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility: “This starts a slow motion commercialization of the national park system. What will be allowed stops just short of licensing adsContinue reading “The Offical Beer of Yosemite”
“Sensational Information”
This blog hopes to try and bridge the vast gap that exists between the fact-based world of science and the sensation-based world of popular entertainment, but–frighteningly–these worlds are beginning to converge. Yesterday from Nature came news that the Gulf Stream has weakened thirty percent in the last fifty years, suggesting the possibility of an iceContinue reading ““Sensational Information””
Enviros Say Yes to Airport, Community
People who care about nature are often depicted as knee-jerk naysayers by right-wing propagandists. In fact, nearly all environmentalists I know are eager to work with people in the community to preserve natural lands and beauty. Perhaps this claim sounds absurdly idealistic, even Panglossian. But here’s an example that should prove the point to anyoneContinue reading “Enviros Say Yes to Airport, Community”
The Religion That is Afraid of Science
A great number of thoughtful people, especially those on the left-hand side of the political dial, don’t see an inherent conflict between religion and science. Some of those thoughtful people, such as Benjamin Franklin and Thomas Jefferson, were founders of this country. (Emerson, as usual, is the writer who puts it most forcefully. In anContinue reading “The Religion That is Afraid of Science”
Question of the Day
From the Washington Post, in a story discussing a mine accident that killed forty, coming a day after a benzene spill poisoned a river that provide water for a city of four million: A recent government report said that up to 70 percent of China’s rivers and lakes are dangerously polluted, and the air in severalContinue reading “Question of the Day”
Ecophobia: A Paradigm
Briefly, "ecophobia" is an irrational (often hysterical) and groundless hatred of the natural world, or aspects of it. Such fear of the agency of Nature plays out in many spheres. The personal hygiene industry relies on it, since capital-driven notions about personal cleanliness assign us preference for perfumes (for some more than others) over naturalContinue reading “Ecophobia: A Paradigm”
Too Good to be True? Apparently Not…
I’m off to Thanksgiving at the relatives, but before I go I have to leave you with some potential good news. At Environmental Economics an interesting group of commentators is discussing an experiment in Canada that successfully injected 5 million tons of carbon dioxide into oil fields, simultaneously reducing CO2 emissons and greatly improving extraction.Continue reading “Too Good to be True? Apparently Not…”
Two Apocalyptic Scenarios
Of the eight short essays on global warming from writers around the world collected in the fall quarterly Granta, probably the most thought-provoking, I’m proud to say, comes from novelist James Lasdun of the United States. He writes (in part): We’re not so far north here in the Catskills, but our first winters here, tenContinue reading “Two Apocalyptic Scenarios”
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