Last night was a double treat for me: I dodged the torturous bedtime ritual and attended a smart debate about politics. (Afterwards, I was so covetous of my freedom that I skipped down 5th Avenue like an escaped convict, unsure of what to do next.) Regular readers of this blog will not be surprised to…Continue Reading…
Mark Lynas, author of Six Degrees: Our Future on a Hotter Planet, is not only disturbed by the IPCC’s latest bungle, he’s paying credit to Steve McIntyre for picking up on it. Bishop Hill has gathered some initial reaction from across the spectrum. It’ll be another grand merry go round, courtesy of the IPCC.
Stop saying everything is because of climate change. Just stop it. The “weatherdude” implores the Daily Kos community.
One of these days, we’re going to have an adult, non-alarmist conversation about population. That would be a discussion that avoids Soylent Green imagery and talks, instead, about population in place-specific terms (which is how these guys do it). Most public debate on population, however, is conflated with a list of global concerns (peak oil,…Continue Reading…
The E. coli outbreak in Europe has been widely covered, so it’s unclear to me what Matt Ridley thinks the media and activists are being silent about. That organic food is more dangerous that nuclear power and deep-water oil drilling? Is that what he is inferring?
Humankind doesn’t innovate in really profound ways that change whole societies until they are in a situation of emergency. Thomas Homer-Dixon, speaking last week at this conference.
I somehow wound up on the email list of a New Age promoter (was it the Universe’s doing?) who sent a message to all her fellow seekers this morning: I’m off to see my guru. It’s been four years since I visited the holy site in Brazil where my guru practices his miraculous healing. I’m…Continue Reading…
From a Pulitzer Prize-winning cartoonist:
He’s a talented provocateur who sometimes smokes his own exhaust. That artful putdown of Jeff Jarvis is sure to be sniffed out by journalism’s eminent aggregator. In his response, Jarvis seems reflexively defensive, but I agree with him here: I dare to question the assumptions about the forms of news and journalism…I believe it is…Continue Reading…
He now spends his days in church basements, government meeting rooms, street corners and scrubby city parks. He is involved in projects to build playgrounds, install urban gardens, reinvent schools, create neighbourhood associations and document the religious life of the city, among others. A fascinating story of a fascinating project.