BLOG… Post #98: Reality Check on China 13 Nov 201527 Feb 2017 Will the real China please stand up? In the US media, most stories about China raise questions that amount to threat-mongering. How can China’s “aggressiveness” in the South China Sea…
BLOG… Post #95: Corporate Irresponsibility and Climate Change 14 Oct 201527 Feb 2017 Research by the Union of Concerned Scientists (ucs.org) finds that 90 global organizations account for about two-thirds of industrial carbon pollution, and that historically, over 12 percent of such…
BLOG… Post #92: Two Cheers for Humanity 17 Sep 201527 Feb 2017 In the last few days the notion of a common humanity, a cornerstone of human-interest thinking, has received strong support from two very different but highly visible sources: Pope Francis’…
BLOG… Post #87: The Number One Global Security Issue? Climate Change 12 Aug 201527 Feb 2017 In my very first blog posted in February 2014, I noted that US leaders were finally categorizing climate change as a global threat on the order of weapons of mass…
American Politics and the World… Post #77: Keep It in the Ground 13 May 201527 Feb 2017 On January 17 the New York Times reported that, to appease environmentalists, the Obama administration would “ban drilling in portions of the Arctic Ocean’s Beaufort and Chukchi Seas.” But in…
BLOG… Post #71 –Should We “Balance” Threats to the Environment? 23 Mar 201527 Feb 2017 How does a US administration promote greater energy independence, protect its fragile environment, and make both oil executives and environmentalists happy? President Obama’s answer is to give something to everyone,…
BLOG… Post #53 – AR5: Another Urgent Report on Climate Change 12 Nov 201427 Feb 2017 When we consider benchmarks that will help explain why the world ignored dire warnings of climate change, we will want to dwell on AR5, the fifth assessment report of the…
In the Human Interest - Mel Gurtov 