December 2009
8 posts
“The science of the issue can get pretty incomprehensible pretty quickly. And the...”
– IMF economist Carlo Cotarelli wrote that a couple of weeks ago. The IT, of course, is the damage done by greenhouse gases.
And Carlos follows that thought up with this one:
Admittedly, climate change is a particularly complicated externality. Since the damage will fall largely on future...
“This conference is critical. It’s ultimately a measure of the human capacity to...”
– Wade Davis wrote that yesterday, on Friday Dec 11 2009. About the excitement in Copenhagen. On a brand new Posterous blog. As part of the Journey to Zero project.
Making Fun →
Part of me wants to love this, to see it as some kind of different in practice. But another part wonders if lampooning the big things - like our cultural addiction to consumption - doesn’t turn them into lovable flaws, traits by which we could come to define ourselves. Think beauty marks, mild stutters, and New-York-style unfriendliness.
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Doing More
From No Impact Man:
I was speaking at a college in Virginia. A young woman told me she lived in a house with no electricity. She ate only local food (much of which she grew herself). She worked in environmental education. “What more should I do?” she asked me earnestly.
I was confused. “It sounds like you’re doing so much, maybe too much. Why do you need to do...
