Best Case? Worst Case? The Colorado River & The Culture Of Exceptionalism
The flow of water in the Colorado River is decreasing, mostly because of global heating. Are policy makers paying attention?
The flow of water in the Colorado River is decreasing, mostly because of global heating. Are policy makers paying attention?
Republicans could not easily reject the Green New Deal in its old way — on the basis of totally ignoring climate change and completely denying the need to do something about it. Even oil corporations agree that climate change is happening and caused by burning fossil fuels.
At Davos this week, the world’s wealthiest people are learning how to become even wealthier by replacing human workers with robots and artificial intelligence.
A group of 45 prominent economists have signed a letter advocating that the US adopt a carbon fee program to address the existential crisis of climate change. Will anyone be persuaded by the logic of so many eminent people?
A report from the World Inequality Lab explodes several myths about the global economy, especially the old canard that giving more money to the rich will result in more money for ordinary people. That myth has now been conclusively proven to be a lie (again).
The Irish Potato Famine shows that environmental disasters don’t happen in a vacuum. The famine was the product of an unjust economic system, and its impact could be felt oceans away.
Ben Tarnoff argues in The Guardian that only governments can afford to invest in the basic research that leads to true innovation and wealth creation.