Guess Who's Questioning the War on Drugs
Humans never fail to amaze. When I recently posted about the drug legalization issue and Mexico, I hadn’t yet seen this intriguing column on Tom Tancredo from Sunday’s Denver Post.
Monthly Archives : April 2009
Romm: Do as I Say, Not as I Do
UPDATE: Big mistake on my part, for reading past the part in Romm’s post where he says he recently debated Morano. The perils of speed reading. Good lesson I have just learned. Still, my larger point holds: Romm was curiously moved to write his post after he debated Morano. Why? It’s not like Morano’s history…Continue Reading…
Stirring the Climate Pot
Andy Revkin loves to stir the pot. Recriminations from predictable quarters are bound to pour in soon.
Calming the U.S.-Mexico Border
Last week, when Time Magazine’s Joe Klein listed all the reasons why legalizing marijuana made sense, somehow he missed this one. Imagine what making pot legal in the U.S. would do for Mexico too.
Wishful Thinking?
Michael Kinsley is confident that journalism will survive the great newspaper shakeout: If General Motors goes under, there will still be cars. And if the New York Times disappears, there will still be news. Sure, but who’s going to cover it?
Reconciling the Planet's Needs with Humanity's
Andrew Sullivan is convinced that global warming is real, but he also belongs to the reality-based community, so he poses this dilemma: Should we bear the heavy economic and social costs of trying to mitigate it in the teeth of a global depression? Or should we find creative ways to adjust to and live with…Continue Reading…
Resilience and Global Warming
“What will a post-crash, truly 21st-century world look like? For people “¨thinking about global systems (economic, environmental, and social) “¨one idea stands out: resilience.”¨” So begins a must read piece in Fast Company by futurist Jamais Cascio. The concept of resilience, as defined by Cascio, means the capacity of an entity–such as a person, an “¨institution, or a…Continue Reading…
Prehistoric Prairie Days
Who knew there was a UNESCO World Heritage Site in Southern Alberta, named Head-Smashed-In Buffalo Jump? (Hat tip, Heather Pringle.) Who knew there was a recently published book on this extraordinary site, which you can download for free, courtesy of Athabasca University Press? (Hat tip, prairiemary.) As Pringle notes, Jack Brink, the book’s author, spent…Continue Reading…
Journalism's Unbearable Paucity of Links
It’s bad enough when print magazines fail to use links when they migrate stories online. But it’s inexusable for online magazines. In this case, I’m referring specifically to Yale’s Environment 360. While reading Keith Schneider’s piece on Australia’s growing concerns about climate change, I found it so annoying that I couldn’t click to obvious avenues…Continue Reading…
About Those Water Wars
Never you worry. Looks like a lot of journalists, academics and environmentalists bought into a big myth.