From The Economist: Brazilian businesses rarely preach greenery. Yet last July, 20 months after Jair Bolsonaro was elected president, rampant deforestation in the Amazon roused 38 CEOs to speak up. Foreign investment was falling and trade talks were stalled. This …
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Climate Change and Morality
Here’s a scholarly article in The Economist that discusses the morality of climate change mitigation. Not surprisingly, it comes down to the question: What value do we place on the lives of other people, in particular, young people and the …
Climate Change Mitigation Means Compassion, and That’s a Problem
Will our civilization here on Earth meet its emissions targets, agreed to by 179 countries (notably excluding the U.S.) as required to limit the rise in global temperatures to 2 degrees C? While no one has a crystal ball, let’s face …
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Climate Change Mitigation in the Trump Administration
Here’s an article in today’s edition of “The Economist” that provides interesting insight in the U.S. role in limiting the rise of global temperatures. The net: even though Trump may have a new-found “open mind” on the legitimacy of climate …
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Understanding Subsidies for Fossil Fuels
We read constantly about the subsidies for fossil fuels, but we note how hard it is to pinpoint exactly how large they are. For one, what exactly should be counted and what should be excluded? No one doubts that we …
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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Clean Energy Is Good, Exploiting It Isn’t
At the risk of stating the obvious, there have been huge mistakes made in governments’ promotion of renewables. But who should be surprised by that? Just because clean energy is a good thing doesn’t mean that there won’t be bad …
