Stretch Hummer
There’s a wedding going on across the street. The bride and groom arrived in a stretch Hummer. While marriages are always a festive, happy time, I’m guessing a world focused on ending global warming may need to re-think the concept…
Politics in the Zeros
"A republic, if you can keep it." Vegas, taxes.
Politics in the Zeros
"A republic, if you can keep it." Vegas, taxes.
Category Climate change
Making the links between global warming and capitalism
Jared Diamond’s recent book Collapse makes a convincing case that multiple civilizations have collapsed because they exploited and mismanaged resources, then when outside forces turned against the culture or the climate changed, their entire way of life disintegrated. Examples include…
The Power of Community. How Cuba Survived Peak Oil
When the Soviet Union collapsed in 1990, Cuba lost over half its oil imports. They reorganized, went full-tilt green, and has survived surprisingly well. What Cuba did could become a model for the future, because not only is oil running…
Climate change blamed for Jakarta floods
Climate change has contributed to extreme weather conditions that triggered the worst flooding in the Indonesian capital in years, a deputy environment minister said. 50 are dead, hundreds of thousands displaced, some are living in cemeteries, and more rain is…
Trading carbon credits
Connecticut has a pioneering plan to cut greenhouse gases by creating a cap on carbon emissions that decreases each year, then creating a market to buy and sell them. The theory is that the more emissions a power plant makes,…