I just signed up to receive Bill Gates’ newsletter on fighting climate change. It’s always good to know what the planet’s most powerful people are thinking and doing, and we’re all certainly better off when the multi-billionaires out there are …
Tag: climate change mitigation
The Greatest Threat To Human Civilization
This is good, but I look at it a bit differently. I would add “climate change mitigation” to the list of things everyone wants. (I would add “universal healthcare” to the list too.)
The Dutch Are Making Sure Sea Water Stays Where It Belongs
As we’ve discussed, there are two fundamental strategies in dealing with climate change: mitigation (reducing greenhouse gas emissions that are causing the problem), and adaptation (dealing with rising temperatures and their effects).
What Will We Live to Experience?
My 64th birthday tomorrow sets my mind in motion as to what I’m going to experience in the remainder of my life, and what I’ll miss. Several items in particular threaten our sustainability:
When It Comes To Driving Climate Change Mitigation, Oregon Is Stuck in Neutral
Here’s a sad story on climate inaction. If we’re having trouble getting ‘er done in Oregon, it’s hard to know where else to turn. What’s especially tragic is that experts agree that the bill in question would bring jobs along …
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Plant Trees
Here’s another post featuring the work of Italian artist Maurizio Rega, who, as far as I can tell, features trees in every piece. And my Lord is this guy prodigious. He cranks out several of these every week, normally announcing …
Tagged with: climate change mitigation
World Freedom Rankings: Mixed Review for U.S.
As shown here (larger version below), the United States comes in #53 in the Freedom House world freedom rankings this year. This report offers some interesting reading as to how this was derived.
Tagged with: climate change mitigation, corporate and government whistleblowers, defunding of public schools, Freedom House world rankings, global warming and other forms of ecologic destruction disproportionately affect the poor, healthcare is a basic human right, obstruction of justice by the U.S. president, overturning the "Citizens United" decision
Infinite Growth Required for a Planet of Finite Size: What Could Go Wrong?
As we approach the 50th anniversary of The Limits of Growth by Donella Meadows et al., it’s interesting, albeit disturbing, to note all the newly emerging factors that conspire to worsen the prognosis of the survival of humankind since the …
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Free Speech on College Campuses
The main reason that I haven’t written a book in the last few years is that I’ve come to understand that the issues thwarting environmental sustainability have relatively little to do with the technological and economic aspects of things like …
International Approach to Climate Change
It’s pretty clear what’s happening in the U.S. re: climate change and its mitigation:
Tagged with: access to the worldwide oil supply, and, climate change mitigation, here is a New York Times article on the subject. At least there is some good news, renewable energy portfolio standards, somewhere in the world., subsidies for fossil fuels, to that end, various countries are doing about climate change, withdrawal from the Paris Accord
