Fifty years ago, it felt like humans were going to take saving the planet seriously. We made great progress. Unfortunately, bad presidents such as Ronald Reagan and Kindly Old Moderate George Bush wen
I assigned one of my classes this long August 2018 Nathaniel Rich essay from the New York Times Magazine about how the world almost took climate change seriously and how that didn’t happen. And
Allow me to take a break from my wanderings around Belgium to note the latest joy in climate change predictions coming true. In the National Climate Assessment, published last week, researchers in the
Only the smartest Americans can be elected to Congress as a Republican: The Earth is not warming. The White Cliffs of Dover are tumbling into the sea and causing sea levels to rise. Global warming is
One of the major research programs in security studies centers around the process of “securitization.” Participants argue that whether or not we treat something as a threat to national s
One doesn’t expect to see a full rant against capitalism in the New York Times, but I guess we are moving into different times. Benjamin Fong’s op-ed about capitalism being the problem in
What could make me even more disgusted that Trump’s EPA suppressing climate scientists? How about the same thing except screwing over my adopted state of Rhode Island and my university? Yeah, th
The reality of climate change is that a global disaster created almost entirely by rich white people in the Global North is going to disproportionately affect the poor of the Global South who had almo