Stupid, Senseless, Helpless Kindness
For those of us tied to nature, for those who know our links to our neighbor’s suffering, for those who have watched our race evolve however slowly towards a place […]
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YOUTH SUE FOR PROTECTION FROM CLIMATE CHANGE
WHAT DOES THE OREGON COURT CASE MEAN Kelsey Cascade Rose Juliana et al. v. the United States of America—a title straight out of legal eco-fiction! It’s actually a real life […]
A PLEA BARGAIN FOR EXXON
A PLEA BARGAIN FOR EXXON—AND HUMANITY © By William H. Espinosa The greatest obstacle to an effective response to climate change is not economic and it’s not technical. It’s political […]
Spain: Tilting with Windmills and Carbon Free
Spain, one of the largest economies in the world, has laudably become one of the first to generate more than 70% of its electricity from non-carbon sources. It’s electricity sector […]
Youth, Nature and Attitudes toward the Environment
I had the good fortune to lead a session of a graduate seminar at American University, focusing in part on some of the themes from my novel WARMING!. Can bottom up […]
IS ANYTHING GOING TO CHANGE ABOUT CLIMATE CHANGE?
It’s been more than a century since the first scientist theorized that carbon emissions and other gases could warm the Earth. By the 1980s many of the most prominent climate […]
THE POLITICS OF CLIMATE CHANGE
There is a good argument to be made that the two genuine US contributions to applied political philosophy are the recognition that environmental protection is a government responsibility and the […]
Warming The Novel 