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Climate Change: A Very Simple Story

The philosopher Stephen Gardiner has called climate change a “perfect moral storm.” Its effects are worldwide and intergenerational, while its causes are highly technical, making it all but impossible to…

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Politics

Is Biden’s Climate Change Plan a Step in the Right Direction?

Presumptive Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden has recently unveiled his approach to climate change: his “plan for a Clean Energy Revolution and Environmental Justice.” The plan calls for $2 trillion…

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Bad Psychology: Why Climate Change Won’t Be Solved by Better Decisions at the Supermarket

Did you know that if we all recycled one plastic bag, we could use those materials to make 28,906 park benches? Did you also know that if we’re ever going…

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Water Shortages: A Problem We Can and Must Solve Now

In 1964, US President Lyndon B. Johnson made a historic request: he wanted a large-scale, nuclear-powered desalination programme to address the growing need for potable water in the American Southwest.…

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Marxism: The Idea that Refuses to Die

It’s been almost a century and a half since Karl Marx’s death, and decades since the collapse of socialism in the Soviet Union, Yugoslavia and elsewhere. In the still nominally…

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The Case for Central Carbon Banks

In a speech to the 1989 UN General Assembly, Margaret Thatcher proclaimed: “the problem of global climate change is one that affects us all and action will only be effective…

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Carnivals Come Cheap: Eco-Activists and the Attacks on Art

I am deeply concerned about the climate change issue. I come from a family background of protest, but over the decades I’ve learned which forms of protest are effective and…

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From Natural Selection to Machine Selection: Human Evolution in the Age of AI

Around 30,000 years ago, when some Asian grey wolves began to tolerate—and be tolerated by—humans, they set in motion one of evolution’s great marvels. Instead of competing with human hunters,…

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Politics

The Perils of Heterodoxy

Most of us rely on experts—electricians, plumbers, car mechanics, doctors, dentists—to solve the practical problems that occur in our daily lives: the material world we live in is too complex…

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Germany’s Dependence on Russian Energy

Russia’s war in Ukraine means that Germany’s much-lauded Energiewende (energy turnaround) policy has now created a triple crisis. First, having closed perfectly functioning zero-carbon nuclear power plants—instead of carbon-heavy coal…

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Science & Tech

Sustainable Farming and Rural Landscapes: James Rebanks’ English Pastoral

When the US Department of Agriculture established the National Organic Program (NOP) 21 years ago, in the year 2000—setting national standards for organic food products—many advocates of sustainable food systems…

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Germany’s Quiet Nuclear Disaster

The 2019 miniseries Chernobyl, about the deadly 1986 nuclear power plant accident in Ukraine, was—unsurprisingly—an immense commercial success: a nuclear disaster makes for good drama. But in my native country…

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Politics

The Continued Danger of Nuclear War

In her 2017 Nobel Peace Prize acceptance speech, Beatrice Fihn acknowledged the insane situation we find ourselves in due to the widespread militaristic harnessing of the atom: The risk for…

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Science & Tech

Why We Need Nuclear Power

The advantages of nuclear power are obvious. First, it produces heat without fire and doesn’t emit pollution in the form of smoke; thus the energy is carbon free. Second, although…

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Politics

Nationalism and the Left

The left has a problem with nationalism. Many on the right, and not a few on the left, at least in the US, believe that leftists are indifferent or hostile…

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Culture & Media

Autism and Its Abusers: The Contrasting Cases of James Damore and Greta Thunberg

In July 2017, engineer James Damore was fired for writing an internal memo entitled “Google’s Ideological Echo Chamber.” Although the memo offered ideas on how to make the company more…

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“Can We Cope with the Complexity of Reality?” by Rolf Jucker. Review.

The title of Rolf Jucker’s newest book poses a question worth asking: we face climate change, population increases, religious and political extremism, a faltering faith in democratic institutions, and an…

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climate change

Climate Change: A Very Simple Story

Is Biden’s Climate Change Plan a Step in the Right Direction?

Bad Psychology: Why Climate Change Won’t Be Solved by Better Decisions at the Supermarket

Water Shortages: A Problem We Can and Must Solve Now

Marxism: The Idea that Refuses to Die

The Case for Central Carbon Banks

Carnivals Come Cheap: Eco-Activists and the Attacks on Art

From Natural Selection to Machine Selection: Human Evolution in the Age of AI

The Perils of Heterodoxy

Germany’s Dependence on Russian Energy

Sustainable Farming and Rural Landscapes: James Rebanks’ English Pastoral

Germany’s Quiet Nuclear Disaster

The Continued Danger of Nuclear War

Why We Need Nuclear Power

Nationalism and the Left

Autism and Its Abusers: The Contrasting Cases of James Damore and Greta Thunberg

“Can We Cope with the Complexity of Reality?” by Rolf Jucker. Review.

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