Re: my recent post on Popular Mechanics’ predictions for our future, my friend who had originally sent me the article writes: I can’t disagree with your balancing the good with dystopian probabilities. Regarding global warming, your predictions are likely spot-on. …
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A friend sent me this wonderful piece in which Popular Mechanics lists its top predictions on what life on this planet will be like in the year 2050 and beyond. I hope you’ll check it out; it’s really worthwhile, and …
Frequent commenter MarcoPolo offers this response to my recent post on the 16,000 scientists from 83 countries who issued a warning to humankind to knock off the environmental recklessness or face catastrophic consequences:
Question: In 1992, 1,700 independent scientists signed the “World Scientists’ Warning to Humanity.” The letter warned that “human beings and the natural world are on a collision course” and if environmental damage was not stopped, our future was at risk. Yesterday, …
We have a frequent commenter here who regularly voices his opinion that because the Paris Climate Accord is nonbinding that it’s merely symbolic. I respond:
Yes, people of conscience are nauseated by the Unites States’ withdrawal from the Paris Climate Accord and our using the 23rd U.N. Climate Convention as a venue to promote the continued and expanded use of fossil fuels.
Here’s a podcast from Yale University pointing out how climate change poses risks to investors. Apparently, this is one of an ongoing series, which makes sense, given that there literally hundreds of ways in which investors are impacted by global …
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The U.S. has dumped more carbon into the atmosphere than any other on the globe…but we’re not content merely to be the only one on Earth not participating in the Paris Accord on climate change. For us, just jumping off …
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Climate change is impacting the rate of storms, flooding, and other natural disasters in the United States and many other areas of the world. There has been an increase in extreme weather events over the last fifty years and scientists …
The 20-teens have seen the onset of a trend that will be with the developed world for a very long time to come: building infrastructure that protects our cities from the escalating ravages of climate change, as discussed in this …
