Kristin Shrader-Frechette of the University of Notre Dame is rigorous in the presentation of her argument in What Will Work: Fighting Climate Change with Renewable Energy, Not Nuclear Power. In recent times a number of leading environmentalists have concluded nuclear power has to be employed to enable the transition away ... keep reading
Written by Bryan Walker this week, about Children and Families, Economics, Emissions, Energy Saving, Politics & Government, Solar, Wind Energy
It’s all too easy for wealthy America and Europe to treat climate-induced migration as a border security issue. Gregory White, Professor of Government at Smith College in Massachusetts, argues in his recent book Climate Change and Migration: Security and Borders in a Warming World that a security-minded response to ... keep reading
Written by Bryan Walker last month, about Children and Families, Climate Change, Politics & Government, Population, Poverty & Development, Sustainability
James Powell has produced a Kindle eBook, Rough Winds: Extreme Weather and Climate Change , which in brief compass links climate change to the extreme weather events increasing across the globe. As a Kindle Single it has the advantage of being right up to date with what has been happening in ... keep reading
Written by Bryan Walker in September 2011, about Agriculture & Food, Children and Families, Climate Change, Deforestation, Earth, Soil, & Landscape, Education, Environment & Wildlife, Environmental Disasters, Industry & Business, Infrastructure, mining, Politics & Government, Population
The case for putting a price on greenhouse gas emissions from human activity is not arguable. It’s undeniable. But what is arguable is the best way of achieving it in the working of a modern economy. Shi-Ling Hsu, a law professor at the University of British Columbia, argues for ... keep reading
Written by Bryan Walker in September 2011, about Carbon Sequestration, Carbon Trading, Design, ETS, Industry & Business, Innovation, mining, Politics & Government, Pollution, Population
From a climate change perspective the New Zealand Energy Strategy 2011-2016 is hopelessly compromised by its determination to exploit all the oil and gas that can be found, including deep sea methane hydrates. Take a look at this extract, the second paragraph in the strategy document:“Globally, there are two ... keep reading
Written by Bryan Walker in September 2011, about Clean Tech, Climate Change, Coal & Oil, Environmental Disasters, Finance & Money, Industry & Business, Politics & Government, Population
“…in the denial of global warming, we are witnessing the most vicious, and so far most successful, attack on science in history.” Those strong words are from James Lawrence Powell in his recent book The Inquisition of Climate Science. The book chronicles the campaign of denial which has resulted in ... keep reading
Written by Bryan Walker in September 2011, about Climate Change, Climate Scepticism, Education, Emissions, Environmental Disasters, Health, Media, Politics & Government
It’s an arresting title, The God Species: How the Planet Can Survive the Age of Humans. For author Mark Lynas the Holocene, the 10,000 year post-ice age era during which human civilisation evolved and flourished, has given way in industrial times to the Anthropocene, an age in which ... keep reading
Written by Bryan Walker in August 2011, about Climate Change, Coal & Oil, Earth, Soil, & Landscape, Emissions, Food, greenhouse gas, Organic, Politics & Government, Pollution, Soil (1 comment)
America is much better in technology than governance. That’s the sentence that leapt out at me and remained prominent throughout my reading of economist Robert Repetto’s book America’s Climate Problem: The Way Forward. I sought the book for review because, although its focus is on the US ... keep reading
Written by Bryan Walker in August 2011, about Action, Protest, & Activism, Clean Technologies, Climate Change, Coal & Oil, Industry & Business, Lifestyle & Behavior, Politics & Government, Population
The remote Alaska Native village of Kivalina has been in danger for a number of years from the effects of climate change.“Sea ice no longer adequately forms on the village’s coastline, leaving the tiny island—perched on a thin strip of land between a sea and a lagoon ... keep reading
Written by Bryan Walker in July 2011, about Action, Protest, & Activism, Climate Change, Coal & Oil, Earth, Soil, & Landscape, Environmental Disasters, Law
The title piqued my curiosity: Tropic of Chaos: Climate Change and the New Geography of Violence. Christian Parenti’s book is about what he calls “the catastrophic convergence”, when the dislocations of climate change collide with already-existing crises of poverty and violence. He points to evidence, often in tropical countries ... keep reading
Written by Bryan Walker in July 2011, about Agriculture & Food, Children and Families, Climate Change, Earth, Soil, & Landscape, Environmental Disasters, Industry & Business, Lifestyle & Behavior, Politics & Government
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