A couple of comments: Fortunately, “thousands” is off by several (probably five) orders of magnitude. There are approximately 2.3 billion people on this planet between the ages of 15 and 30. If 10% of them are “stepping up” in any …
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Young People and the Environment
Tagged with: drill baby drill, in half a century at the rate we're going this planet will be a hellish place to live, it's hard to know what fraction of young people are concerned about and getting involved in environmental stewardship, propaganda of Big Oil and the far right, the significant levels of support we see for Trump among young people, Young People and the Environment
How Much, If at All, Do We Honestly Care about Our Children?
The author of the meme here has nailed something very important. It’s the reason people sound so selfish and stupid when they say something like, “Oh, I’m not interested in politics.” It’s just another way of of saying, “I don’t …
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Biden Needs to Go, and Here’s Why
Sorry, but I disagree with the author of the meme here. In just a few minutes out of an hour and a half on stage, Biden proved to the world that he’s incapable of beating Trump in November. Standing behind …
Climate Threat
Pictured here, Annie Leonard of “The Story of Stuff” fame, now the executive director of Greenpeace USA, writes: I’m going to get straight to the point. Donald Trump’s presidency poses an enormous threat to our climate, our environment, and our …
The Environment Movement and Its Detractors
I just came across a strange article in the Boston Globe called “Inconvenient Truths for the Environmental Movement,” written by Joshua S. Goldstein and Steven Pinker. In the section below, I present a few excerpts and provide my responses in …
The Keystone XL Pipeline and Climate Change
Most of us who pay attention to the key environmental issues of the day have some opinion on the legitimacy of the Keystone XL pipeline. At the risk of oversimplifying: • Hard-core environmentalists say the approval of the project means, in …
Clean Energy Actually DOES Lie In Our Future — It's Only a Question of Time
Here’s an article that does a good job discussing voter suppression – to be sure, off-topic for a clean energy blog by a long shot. I bring it up only because it ends with words that resonate with me: “It’s …
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Yale University's Fantastic Report on the Politics of Climate Change
Here’s a report from Yale University that sheds light on the politics of global climate change. Highlights include: • “A majority of all registered voters (55%) say they will consider candidates’ views on global warming when deciding how to vote.” …
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A Career in Clean Energy? Here’s Some Advice
Each week I receive several emails requesting my advice on career paths within the clean energy space. I thought I’d take a few minutes and jot down a few of the ideas that I normally try to express in response. …
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Ocean Thermal Energy Conversion — Good Example of a Stalled Technology
Here’s a piece in The Economist on ocean thermal energy conversion (OTEC) that points out the sad truth about the development of alternative energy technologies, i.e., that interest is strong when oil is expensive, but wanes to zero when oil …
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