Environmental Security and Global Warming
Back in 2007 the Carnegie Council held a symposium on environmental security, in which a number of academics working or thinking about this question had submitted related papers, with the featured piece...
Anthropocene
Welcome to the Anthropocene: Disaster Time
As I’ve discussed in an earlier post, the Anthropocene is a concept coined a little over a decade ago by scientists to describe the massive scale of changes happening to the Earth’s biosphere...
It’s a Mad, Mad World!
“I do not believe that this legislation changes the scientific standards that are taught in our schools or the curriculum that is used by our teachers.” –TN Governor Bill Haslam on the...
The Anthropocene Debate – Part I
At the heart of modern environmentalism is the idea that the planet must be saved from further damage by humanity. But it is far from clear that this is possible or even that...
The Death of Environmentalism – Reflection 1
In 2004 Ted Nordhaus and Michael Schellenberger, well-known environmental pollsters and political strategists in the DC environmental lobbying circles, released a much discussed essay called The Death of Environmentalism, which argued that the...
Our Fossil Fuel Future – Part I: The Keystone XL Pipeline
[Breaking News Addition: Nebraska farmers and ranchers pack Keystone hearing– demand project be stopped!] While teaching a lesson today on the creation and passage of the 1970 National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) by...
