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The Air-Conditioning Debate Isn’t Really About Air-Conditioning

September 11, 2018

The Air-Conditioning Debate Isn’t Really About Air-Conditioning Less of What We Don’t Need Jacobin recently published an article calling for a national and worldwide expansion of air-conditioning usage. In it the writer, Leigh Phillips, used the suffering of economically and ecologically stressed people and communities during heat waves as a rationale for doubling down on […]

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An Engineer, an Economist, and an Ecomodernist Walk Into a Bar and Order a Free Lunch . . .

August 1, 2018

An Engineer, an Economist, and an Ecomodernist Walk Into a Bar and Order a Free Lunch . . . Photo source NASA Goddard Space Flight Center | CC BY 2.0 Humanity’s and the Earth’s prospects have been dimming for the past year and a half. But they’ve been bleak for a long time; as little […]

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Cornucopian Renewable-Energy Claims Leave Poor Nations in the Dark

February 26, 2018

Cornucopian Renewable-Energy Claims Leave Poor Nations in the Dark Stanford professor Mark Jacobson and his colleagues have written yet another paperpurporting to show that 100 percent of energy demand can be fulfilled by wind, solar, and hydroelectric generation. This latest study, which comes in the form of a manuscript accepted but not yet published by […]

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Betting the Earth on a Game of Wrap-Cut-Smash

January 24, 2018

Betting the Earth on a Game of Wrap-Cut-Smash Photo by Kevin Gill | CC BY 2.0 The Earth is having to deal with continuous, largely unchecked emissions of greenhouse gases, along with soil degradation, mass extinction of species, destruction of ecosystems, and disruption of nitrogen, phosphorous, and water cycles. Meanwhile, efforts to head off the […]

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Are Driverless Cars a Good Way to Help Stop Greenhouse Warming, or Is Greenhouse Warming a Good Pretext for Selling Driverless Cars? 

November 3, 2017

Are Driverless Cars a Good Way to Help Stop Greenhouse Warming, or Is Greenhouse Warming a Good Pretext for Selling Driverless Cars?  Photo by Paul Sableman | CC by 2.0 The automakers and IT giants are predicting that autonomous vehicles (AVs or “driverless cars”) will play a big role in reducing America’s currently extravagant emissions […]

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100% renewables: ‘wishful thinking’ or an imperative goal?

October 24, 2017

100% renewables: ‘wishful thinking’ or an imperative goal? In this essay, I was provoked to respond to Stan Cox’s widely-shared article “100 Percent Wishful Thinking: The Green-Energy Cornucopia”, in which he argues that a transition to 100% renewable energy is neither technically feasible, nor desirable. It is my contention, in contrast, that a 100 percent […]

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100 Percent Wishful Thinking: the Green-Energy Cornucopia

September 14, 2017

100 Percent Wishful Thinking: the Green-Energy Cornucopia At the People’s Climate March back last spring, all along that vast river of people, the atmosphere was electric. But electricity was also the focus of too many of the signs and banners. Yes, here and there were solid “System Change, Not Climate Change” – themed signs and […]

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