On at least a couple of occasions here, I've noted that students of mine have expressed that they don't want to have children because they don't think that a world this impacted by climate change is worth bringing life into. This led to a lot...
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Tell me how this is going to work out well for humans again? At last year’s global climate talks in Glasgow, world leaders, scientists and chief executives rallied around a.
While we are focusing on the elections (for good reasons of course), the world continues to burn. Will the US ever do anything useful in fighting climate change? Biden appeared.
Handout photo issued by Just Stop Oil of two protesters who have thrown tinned soup at Vincent Van Gogh's famous 1888 work Sunflowers at the National Gallery in London, Friday Oct. 14, 2022. The group Just Stop Oil, which wants the British government to halt...
Environmental activist Greta Thunberg, of Sweden, addresses the Climate Action Summit in the United Nations General Assembly, at U.N. headquarters, Monday, Sept. 23, 2019. (AP Photo/Jason DeCrow) The idea that.
The fact that Donald Trump got to name powerful people to positions around the world has long-term consequences of the very bad kind. David Malpass catapulted onto the international stage.
Since our economic betters have overlearned the lessons of the 1970s and have responded to this brief and highly specific to a global pandemic period of inflation by going full 1979 and seeking to tank the economy, it's worth noting that has global impacts, many...
ProPublica has a typically excellent deep dive on how the long-term debts of Barbados makes it very difficult for that small island nation to fight climate change. With Lagarde on.
I wanted to point you all to this Aaron Regunberg piece in The New Republic. I should state that I know him slightly. He almost won the lieutenant governor position.
As best I can tell, no one posted about Leach Stokes' essay in The New York Times. So I guess that I should. Stokes is an important scholar of the politics of climate change. The title of her piece, "What Joe Manchin Cost Us," is,...
Back in 1997, I drove from Oregon to Tennessee to start graduate school. Had never been the most of the nation before. So I was pretty excited. One of the.
Since the demise of American involvement in the Trans Pacific Partnership, we haven't talked a ton around here about the problems with Investor State Dispute Settlement courts. In short, this.