A business-as-usual approach to our planet’s environment means that unprecedented levels of suffering will be visited upon a huge percentage of the world’s population. Decent people see this as morally unacceptable, given that the technology exists to avert a great …
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In preparation for the chapter on national security in my first book, Renewable Energy–Facts and Fantasies, I interviewed James Woolsey, former director of the CIA. As I predicted, he was adamant about the need to mitigate and adapt to climate …
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I work out at the local YMCA, which unfortunately was founded by a wealthy Republican, and thus, on the way to my favorite machines, I have walk by a set of televisions, one of which always shows Fox News. As …
From Clint Eastwood: People say that we must leave a better planet to our children. The truth is that we must leave better children to our planet. I would say that both are true. Of course, as a true right-winger, …
According to the meme here, the answer is that ignoring the problem is so much easier, and there are so many distractions, the British monarchy amongst them.
The fellow sitting next to me on a plane-ride this morning was a magnet for information on renewable energy and environmental sustainability more generally. He wanted to know things that most people struggle with, e.g., if CO2 is a gas, …
In one of his sonnets, Shakespeare wrote, and I paraphrase, “Love that which you’ll soon be leaving.” It sounds like he was referring to our very lives. (Aren’t we all leaving them?) But, according to experts, he was talking about …
The heatwaves that are traveling around the planet are reminding many of us what this planet will be like to live on in another 50 years. Perhaps they’re precipitating global action before it’s too late.
My wife is not handling the heat well up here at 2GreenEnergy headquarters in Santa Barbara County where the temperature topped out at 109 F this afternoon. I tried to amuse her with an excerpt of a discussion on the …
Here at 2GreenEnergy, we often talk about what will be required for human civilization to muster the strength to redirect itself onto a sustainable path, and away from environmental ruin. At a minimum, it means developing an understanding of the …
