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If you’re still collecting evidence that a society built on extractive wealth is liable to moral pathology, put this one in your dossier. The Saudis are demanding that if we use less of their climate-toxic export, we should pay them (and the other oil-exporting countries) for what we don’t buy.
Let us pause in awe at [...]
Archive for the ‘Energy and Environment’ Category
October 14th, 2009
Category: Climate change, Energy and Environment, Middle East Politics, Moral philosophy, Nationalism, Politics and Leadership, Uncategorized
October 6th, 2009
Category: Commerce and its discontents, Energy and Environment, Literature, Moral philosophy, Religion
…for a man to write this well every day.” But somehow, Thoreau could.
September 25th, 2009
Category: California Politics, Climate change, Energy and Environment, Schwarzenegger, Watching Conservatives
Does Arnold Schwarzenegger care more about Tea Partiers or the planet?
August 30th, 2009
Once again, southern California is prey to wildfires, an environmental hazard that has become commonplace as the earth has heated up. But I’m sure it’s just a coincidence.
August 25th, 2009
Has India just established a domestic cap-and-trade system? Maybe.
August 10th, 2009
Category: Energy and Environment, Urbanism
Homeowners might actually welcome density in their neighborhoods — they just need a Nudge to find it out.
July 10th, 2009
Category: Energy and Environment
I guess we can stop telling fairy tales about the climate change bill improving in the Senate. To the contrary, the corn/agriculture/ethanol Democrats, having thrown the science under the bus in the House, are preparing to back up and run over it again, just to be sure.
The Iowa Democrat, a major advocate for ethanol, also [...]
July 1st, 2009
Horace nails Waxman-Markey.
June 28th, 2009
Category: Energy and Environment
It’s George Will who is Don Quixote against the windmills.
June 24th, 2009
Category: Energy and Environment
George Will has an important column today about the economic cost of Spain’s wind energy program. Unfortunately, as is his habit, he allows himself to be entranced by the sound of his own voice and wit, and forgets both what he started out to talk about and the part of his story that separates [...]
