Insight and inspiration in turbulent times.
•Leaked IPCC Draft Report: Recent Warming Is Manmade, Cloud Feedback Is Positive, Inaction Is Suicidal •What leaked IPCC report really says on climate change •Why Climate Change Denial Is Just Hot Air •States Threaten EPA Over Petroleum Industry Methane Emissions •Ask Bill McKibben Anything
In 1990 there were only two women in the U.S. Senate, but in 2013, twenty women will be serving in the Senate, and another 81 women will take office in the House of Representatives. With this record number of Congressional seats held by women, the U.S. is closing in on the global average (20%) for lawmaking bodies. This is good news because evidence suggests that governmental bodies with more women are more likely to tackle issues of social justice and environmental health (and they’ll be more likely to pass budgets that reflect these concerns).
•Climate change: you can’t ignore it •2012: Record Arctic Sea Ice Melt, Multiple Extremes and High Temperatures •Study: Wealthy Nations’ Fossil Fuel Subsidies 5 Times Greater Than Climate Aid to Countries in Need •No sign of emissions letting up as climate talks begin •Forbidden Planet Arctic lost record snow and ice last year as data shows changing climate
Yes, the most effective way to slow climate change is to shrink the economy.
What we have now is the McDonald’s of democracy.
It’s a future about sufficiency more than it is about greed and wants…
In ancient China, the arrival of a new dynasty was accompanied by “the rectification of names,” a ceremony in which the sloppiness and erosion of meaning that had taken place under the previous dynasty were cleared up and language and its subjects correlated again. It was like a debt jubilee, only for meaning rather than money.
Enjoy this satirical look at the politics of energy by PCI Senior Fellow Richard Heinberg…At a hastily organized news conference, president Obama this morning called for a new national effort to restore America’s greatness by combating “entropy.”
I’ll be talking with Nader about the critical ideas in his wonderful new book, The 17 Solutions: Bold Ideas for Our American Future.
*US presidential debates’ great unmentionable: climate change
*Energy & the Election
*Ten Charts That Make Clear The Planet Just Keeps Warming
The wealth gap in this country is huge and growing larger. What surprises me is that we’re not looking more deeply into the issue. We don’t really understand how big the wealth gap is and what wealth inequality does to us.
Oil prices remained steady this week as the closure of the Keystone pipeline in the US to address possible safety issues balanced bearish news on the Chinese economy. Beijing reported that Q3 saw growth slow to 7.4%, compared to the same period last year.
