There are problematic disconnects between discussions of the unsustainable nature of our western wasteful ways (for example, Tom Friedman’s recent NYTimes column) and the economic “stimulus” package, as it were, geared to put people back to work. Clearly, it is not sustainable for the US, with 5% of the world’s population , to continue to [...]
Archive for March 2009There’s an interesting article today by Sefan Rahmstorf, in which he criticizes Bjorn Lumborg for misrepresenting data on sea level changes. Bjorn Lumborg has been around a while, assailing those who may sometimes be overly ardent in their predictions of environmental catrostophe, and sparking discussion of where to place priorities. As an economist and political [...] The environmental blogosphere has been talking about a February George Will column on global warming. Realclimate has a nice analysis with some great comments, and links to others’ discussions. It seems Mr. Will may have overly relied upon opinion in examining and synthesizing a large number of facts, and may not have done a lot [...] One very nice reference work I’ve used often, by N. Irving Sax, entitled Dangerous Properties of Hazardous Materials, begins on the title page with the well-known quote by Cardinal John Newman: Nothing! would be done at all if a man waited until he could do it so well that no-one could find fault with it. [...] |
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