| |
| Stephen
H. Schneider (Editor), John O. Niles (Editor), Armin Rosencranz (Editor)
|
2002 |
Climate
Change Policy: A Survey (Washington, D. C., Island Press, 2002),
Chapters 1 and 2, pp. 3-87. |
| Elizabeth
Kolbert |
| |
2006 |
Field
Notes from a Catastrophe (New York, Bloomsbury USA, 2006), please
read entire book. |
| Derrick
Jensen |
| |
2006 |
"Beyond
Hope: Losing hope may kill part of you, but that's actually a good
thing," Orion Magazine, (May-June, 2006).
"THE
MOST COMMON WORDS I hear spoken by any environmentalists anywhere
are, We're fucked....
But
no matter what environmentalists do, our best efforts are insufficient.
We're losing badly, on every front. Those in power are hell-bent
on destroying the planet, and most people don't care.
Frankly, I don't have much hope. But I
think that's a good thing. Hope is what keeps us chained to the
system, the conglomerate of people and ideas and ideals that is
causing the destruction of the Earth...."
|
| Timothy
C. Weiskel |
| |
2000 |
"Denying
the Evidence: Science and the Human Prospect," in Earth
at Risk: An Environmental Dialogue between Religion and Science,
Donald B. Conroy and Rodney L. Petersen, (eds.), (Amherst, New York,
Humanity Books, 2000), pp. 107-130. |
| David
Roberts |
| |
2006 |
"Peak
oil will not help us in the climate change fight," Grist
Magazine - Gristmill, (29 May 2006). |
| Jonathan
Shaw |
| |
2006 |
"Fueling
Our Future," Harvard Magazine, (May-June 2006). |
To
help you with Betsy Kolbert's book...some lectures and a live appearance!
and
| Stephen
H. Schneider |
2003 |
Climate
Change - Climate
Policy, [ Web version, November 2003] |
Supplementary
Material
How
is the American media reporting and the public understanding the complexity
and subtlety of the issues?
How
much is "noise" and how much is "signal?"
Is it any wonder the public is confused? How much of the bewilderment
is manufactured confusion?
How
do you assess 
Andrew
Revkin's recent respresentation of the "The Global Warming Debate"
in the larger context of these "culture wars" in America?
How
do you assess Al Gore's appearence on Saturday Night Live in
the larger context of these "culture wars" in America? In your
estimation, has Al Gore advanced the public understanding of global climate
change in this kind of gesture or has he weakened it?
|
Consider,
for example, the problem of "fake news"....
|
What
do you think will be the American response to the new ad campaign by the
fossil fuel lobby and its sympathizers at the Competitive Enterprise
Institute?
|
Competitive Enterprise Institute |
| 2006 |
"We
Call it Life-1" Competitive Enterpris Institute, Ad campaign
targeting media in 14 American cities, May 2006. |
| 2006 |
"We
Call it Life-2" Competitive Enterpris Institute, Ad campaign
targeting media in 14 American cities, May 2006. |
Are the "climate wars" really just economic wars in environmental
disguise? Can we set aside these political squabbles and look soberly
at what is happening in the natural world?
Do we "remember" what can (and already has) happened in nature?
What is our collective memory of what happened in 1938 in New England?
Can
we remember what the world leadership on has been saying ever since the
first world wide meeting of environmental ministers in Stockholm, Sweden
and the creation of the United Nations Environment Program (UNEP) in 1972?
What
are the prospects for changing the perspective of political leadership
or changing the leadership altogether through the electoral process? Consider
the assessment of the national correspondant for the Washington Post.
What
are the prospects for a global economy predicated upon perpetual growth
in light of expected climate change -- induced, in part, -- by increased
carbon emissions? Is Jeffrey Sachs being
naive? overly optimistic? downright foolish? or is he simply sadly misinformed
about industrial culture's capacity for social and political self-transformation?
Meanwhile,
European scientists, reporters and policy writers continue to urge those
of us in the United States both to take the latest science more seriously
and to recognize the moral obligations we have on a global scale to act
soon and decisively to reverse our carbon usage.
In the final analysis we face an open question:
Do
we have the cultural capacity in industrial civilization
(which now must include India
and China) to undertake
the changes required for our collective survival
in the time that is alotted to us? |
