While yes, it seems strange that we’re sitting around watching the planet bake, keep in mind the following factors that makes this an extremely complicated and difficult problem to solve: Human society is organized around 200+ sovereign countries, each acting, …
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Big Oil Enjoying HUGE Profits
From: The Story of Stuff Project While Americans were reckoning with sky-high gas prices at the pump last year, ExxonMobil reported on Tuesday that it made $56 billion in profits in 2022. That’s the most a Western oil company has …
Compassion, Cooperation, and Sacrifice
The author of the beautiful piece of writing below makes an excellent point. What we’re experiencing, in the main, is compassion for our fellow human beings. We need to look at this as the warm-up act for a planetary challenge …
Koch Industries Extremely Effective
A great number of ballot initiatives aimed at mitigating climate change went up in flames in the midterms on Tuesday, largely because voters were misled by a torrent of advertising. Here’s an article describing how the Koch brothers and other …
Mitigating Climate Change Requires Your Involvement
It’s not an unattainable wish to believe that someday, a responsible government acting in concert with the will of the people will take definitive actions to accelerate the transition to clean energy, perhaps via the Carbon Fee and Dividend that …
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Melting Sea Ice Puts Alaskan Village Into a Quandary
Here’s a story about a small town in Northern Alaska whose 650 citizens are currently voting whether or not to relocate, as the melting of the sea ice due to climate change is allowing the incoming waves to erode their …
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Shell Abandons Arctic Drilling
After encountering crude deposits of disappointing size, Shell has decided to withdraw from oil exploration in the arctic, meaning that, at least for now, the assault on that pristine environment will not go forward. Obviously, it’s a great moment for …
Mitigating Climate Change–A Legal Strategy Based on an Ancient Premise
Those of us concerned about climate disruption turn to legal scholars for strategies that may be successful in protecting Earth’s atmosphere. Here’s one I just came across, propounded by Mary Christina Wood (pictured), a law professor at the University of …
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Carbon Tax to Mitigate Climate Change – Fascinating Debate
I believe everyone should see the five-minute-long video embedded in this article, in which conservative Republicans of various stripes debate the concept of a revenue-neutral carbon tax as a tool to take a proactive step to mitigate climate change. As …
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A Few Reasons to Mitigate Climate Change
In his comment to my recent piece on global climate change, Cameron Atwood provides a wonderful analysis, which concludes: This strikes me as very much like buying insurance – if nothing happens, you lose some money in exchange for peace …
