environmental policy
A carbon fee program would preserve the personal choice of how we live our lives
Policies devoted to bioenergy should be redirected toward efforts to protect terrestrial carbon stocks and recarbonize the biosphere.
The most underrated tool in the fight against climate change might just be right under your feet. That’s right: land is storing epic amounts of carbon that could otherwise warm the atmosphere. It’s sequestered inContinue reading
When we insist on shared values and universal human experiences, we erase these productive differences and cripple the potential for equitable collaboration.
A lot of the costs of climate change will be borne by society at large, through taxes and insurance premiums.
In light of this assault on an environmental policy that did its job, what can a despairing environmentalist do?
How do you learn from those with whom you can’t communicate? This question has posed a methodological and ethical quandary as I work on community-based mangrove restoration with Marine Conservation Philippines. My research explores localContinue reading
“Hi Joe!” I hear this cheery call often while doing community-based conservation in the Philippines. Filipinos frequently call foreigners “Joe.” It’s a rich, if casual, reference to the military nature of U.S.-Filipino relations: “Joe” derivesContinue reading
Certainly providing a low-risk environment for human health carries some costs.
No matter how much carbon they assimilate, the carbon uptake by an existing mature forest is not additional,
