Gaius Publius: Capitalism, Infinite Growth, Climate Change & Manufactured Hopelessness
Looking at the disastrously high cost of the fetishization of growth.
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The Situation in Puerto Rico: Power, Water, and PROMESA
Puerto Rico’s austerity under PROMESA begets power failure begets water contamination and disease
Read more...The Climate Change Land Rush: When Will People Start Leaving Coastal Cities?
Most of the world’s biggest cities are coastal cities. What happens when people start realizing they are threatened?
Read more...Fast Fashion: Magical Shift in Consumption Patterns Will Save the Planet?
Forbes thinks that emerging markets consumers might save the planet from fast fashion folly. Ahem. I’m not so sure.
Read more...California Rewrites the GOP’s Climate Playbook
Some California Republican legislators are breaking ranks and beginning to embrace modest pro-regulatory positions on climate change.
Read more...What Hurricane Harvey Says About Risk, Climate, and Resilience
Only someone profoundly pessimistic would bet against the ability of American ingenuity to repower our economy.
Read more...Looming Gas Shortage: “Imports Can’t Make Up For This”
Hurricane Harvey has shut down the Colonial pipeline indefinitely; east coast consumers soon to see gasoline shortages that imports can’t fix.
Read more...Flood Protection: The US Should Go Dutch to Avoid Building Another Houston
Houston and US more generally should embrace a Dutch model of flood protection rather than focusing flood control efforts on post hoc clean-up.
Read more...G20 Climate Commitments and China’s One Belt One Road
A critical look at some wishful thinking about climate change and China’s One Belt One Road initiative.
Read more...After Neoliberalism, What Next?
The neoliberal order has failed and is creating more and more political and social upheaval. Some elements of a new system may be in sight.
Read more...In First 6 Months Under Trump, Polluters Already Paying Lower Fines to EPA
EPA enforcement of federal clean air and clean water laws drops off, yielding lower fines; trend looks only likely to accelerate.
Read more...New Jersey Food Waste Law Will Help Feed Hungry, And Mitigate Climate Change
NJ law aims to reduce food waste and help feed hungry. State climate change policies are key response in the absence of federal action.
Read more...Cobalt Production as the Hidden Choke Point on Mass Conversion to Electric Vehicles
Going from the internal combustion engine to electric vehicles is likely to hit a cobalt road block.
Read more...Telling the Climate Truth
What must be done to alleviate the coming climate change catastrophe.
Read more...Plastic Free July: What YOU Can Do to Reduce Plastics Waste
With a world drowning in plastics, there are steps you can take to reduce your consumption of single-use plastics.
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