Goodbye Glasgow: What’s Next for Global Climate Action?
After COP26, and as the debate on whether Glasgow represents a success or a failure dies down, what next for global climate action?
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Why the UK (and US) Left Is Wrong To Be So Dismissive of Non-Violent Struggle
Some voices on the left advocate violent tactics. Is this recommendation well informed or desperate?
Read more...New, Radically Different Covid Variant Getting Footholds Now as Media and Officials Remain Complacent
A very different Covid variant has made its way out of Africa into Europe and the US. How worried should you be?
Read more...COP26: Climate Pledges Don’t Match Up With Policies—or Consumer Behavior
The ink is barely dry on COP26 pledges, and it’s not hard to see that they are largely for show.
Read more...We Need Far More Radical Thinking Than Any COP26 Deal To Save the Planet
Recognizing that COP26 is not remotely ambitious enough is a step in the right direction. But it is still only a small step.
Read more...Mark Ames: Why Finance Is Too Important to Leave to Larry Summers
A reprise of Mark Ames’ biting fundraiser classic.
Read more...On the Duty to Obstruct
A recap of the progressive punt on the Build Back Better bill and the contention that duty demands much more radical action.
Read more...The Climate Fight Over Line 5, or the Upper Peninsula and Canada Versus Greenhouse Gas Absolutism
The fight over shutting down Line 5, a major oil pipeline, could set an important precedent.
Read more...McKinsey, the Force Multiplier for the Opioid Crisis, Goes All in With Anti-Public-Health Messaging on Covid
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Read more...‘This Must Not Happen’: If Unhalted, Permian Basin Fracking Will Unleash 40 Billion Tons of CO2 by 2050
Climate change activists have new oil and gas wells in their crosshairs, starting with the potential carbon bomb of the Permian Basin.
Read more...Latest Fed Financial Stability Report Underplays Supply Chain Risk
The financial press overhyped the latest Fed stabilty report’s comments on China, and ignored the near total absence of supply chain woes.
Read more...Carbon Tax Over-Rated
A carbon tax is an idea that has been around yet never deployed despite potential benefits because reasons, such as hurting the poor.
Read more...Metals May Become the New Oil in Net-Zero Emissions Scenario
Economists project that prices for energy-transition metals will soar and their combined value could match that of crude oil
Read more...Halloween Is Over – Are Corporate Zombies Still Out There?
Corporate debt levels are up due to Covid. Some will businesses will not make it. Restructuring sooner is better for everyone than later.
Read more...COP26: Can a Singing, Dancing Rebellion Save the World?
COP26 revealed climate activists have a very long way to go, and not necessarily in the way they think.
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