Given that states with strict abortion stances, like Texas, recognize the personhood of a fetus, we seem to have a dilemma of quantum proportions. The situation reeks of Schrödinger’s cat.
Government Policy
Post Industrial Environmental Blues
It’s not that we don’t have the technology to produce without pollution; we simply won’t or can’t pay the price for it. But there is no free lunch.
2050 and 2035: Failure and Hope for the Climate Crisis
The climate crisis arrived at our doorsteps with unexpected rapidity and vigor. Events foretold for 50 years from now are unfolding long before their predicted time.
A Retreat From Climate Change
An orderly, managed retreat is better than an unmanaged retreat, but politically unpopular.
The more methane hypothesis
The EPA mission to protect the environment will be fulfilled by releasing more methane—what?
Combating the climate crisis: The Democratic Party Platform
If climate change is important to you, read the party platforms and vote.
Climate Change: Republican Platform provides a blast from the past
Nothing new has happened since 2016?
A carbon tax on gasoline: good, bad, or just ugly
Joe Biden’s climate plan proposes carbon pricing, but the details on what this actually means have not been forthcoming. One possibility is a cap-and-trade pricing mechanism, but the other alternative is a traditional carbon tax. So, what are the advantages of one over the other? We can examine that against some unconventional measures: obscurity and Read More…
Electricity, a pressure point for mitigating climate change (Part 2)
Mitigating climate change must come through the ballot box.
States take the lead and move to clean energy
States have stepped into the vacuum created by federal inaction and set realistic clean-energy targets.