“For another decade or so, climate change will get worse and farms like mine will die,” says a desperate farmer in West Virginia, imploring Senator Joe Manchin (D-WV) to do something about it. For one, climate change will get worse …
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Here’s RMI’s cofounder Amory Lovins shaking hands with Jimmy Carter. It may come as a surprise that there was a time before environmentalism became a partisan issue. The Environmental Protection Agency was formed in the Nixon administration. Nowadays, notions like …
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Political philosopher, author, and Holocaust survivor Hannah Arendt gave us the words here. In the context of the Holocaust, this makes perfect sense. We can say that the people who committed those atrocities failed to think of the consequences, and …
We’ve all heard: If God had wanted us to talk more, He wouldn’t have given us two ears and only one mouth. Fair enough. Most of us, if we’re honest with ourselves, agree that we should be better listeners, so …
Growing up and losing one’s innocence certainly does come at a cost. Speaking for myself, until Nixon came along when I was 13, I felt very sure that the grown-ups were doing everything possible to deal with our world’s problems: …
Here’s a guy who doesn’t mince words, and he’s nailed this one. Climate change mitigation/adaptation is a war we either win, or our civilization founders. We all lose. It’s astonishing that we don’t seem to understand this.
Montana is a red state if there ever were one, but how much appetite could voters possible have for Ryan Zinke? Interior Secretary under Trump, Zinke resigned when he learned that he was facing several federal probes for criminal wrongdoing; …
Those looking for a hopeful, upbeat prediction on our civilization’s capacity to head off climate change will want to skip this article, in which Tariq Fancy (pictured), BlackRock’s former chief investment officer for sustainable investing, says that ESG (Environmental, Social …
Legendary environmentalist Paul Hawken has assembled a group he calls Regeneration. In his book of the same, he explains the concept as follows: Regeneration is a radical new approach to the climate crisis, one that weaves justice, climate, biodiversity, and human …
Here’s a funny little meme on Americans’ pathological distrust of science. Most of the people who reject science are selective in the type of science they reject. Most of these nut-jobs accept that we shoot rockets into space and that …
