This blog is intended as an on - line festschrift celebrating Lester Brown's career, which has spanned over 50 years beginning with the U.S. Department of Agriculture, the Overseas Development Council, Worldwatch Institute, and
now Earth Policy Institute.
Not exact matches
When you put a
policy in place that serves one objective without considering the broader impact, you suffer from axis displacement disorder: That's when you believe the axis of the
earth has shifted and
now the world revolves around you.
The level of central bank activity for the sole reason of 2 % inflation is a scorched
earth monetary
policy, and
now they have to live with the consequence that they can't reverse themselves.
But on the morning of the second leaders» debate (on Sky News and Radio 4 at 8 pm tonight) it would appear that Fleet Street is
now moving to burst the Clegg bubble and bring him back down to
earth, not only by putting Lib Dem
policy under serious scrutiny for the first time, but also by delving into Clegg's personal record:
Yet public
policy and conservation organizations worldwide are rapidly converging on the view that people are
now a fundamental part of every ecosystem on the
earth, and any effective management strategy must embrace this reality.
Moreover, with Gore
now the unexpected vice-presidential nominee of the Democratic Party,
Earth in Balance offers an unintended preview of the
policies he
now must champion as he makes his second bid for national office.
At the
Earth Policy Institute, we believe that the United States has ended a century of rising carbon emissions and has
now entered a new energy era, one of declining emissions.
WASHINGTON, DC — The global economy is
now undergoing a transition from fossil and nuclear energy to clean power from solar, wind, and other renewable sources, according to the latest book from environmental analyst Lester Brown and his colleagues at the
Earth Policy Institute (EPI).
«We are calling on
policy - makers to respond to the prospect of triggering future climate tipping points by applying the brakes
now and putting a high price on carbon emissions before it is too late,» says one of the authors, Tim Lenton, professor of climate change and
earth system science at the University of Exeter.
Brown continued, «I believe the
Earth Policy Institute has accomplished what we set out to do when we began in 2001, and
now it is time for me to make a shift and no longer carry the responsibility of managing an organization.
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It appears from your uninformative reason why my comment didn't «comport» to your very dodgy Comments
Policy, that in your mind, when you say; «a paper from years ago», that you are
now saying that valid scientific evidence backed up by the
Earth Sciences department at Syracuse University, Syracuse, NY, The American Geophysical Union & Harvard University has a shelf life and if it exceeds a certain time frame it is deemed invalid.
«Forest conservation must be prioritised based on their relative values, and
Earth's remaining forests are the crown jewels, ones that global climate and biodiversity
policies must
now emphasise.»
(maybe most of you are too cool to remember that sort of moment... but think of something equally bad like the time you accidentally set something on fire and it started getting out of control...) I think it will be worse than that... Seems like to me we need to be much, much, more certain before we go making
policy all over the
earth that could actually harm us... or maybe not quite so bad, but really not desirable, harm many developing countries and distract them from addressing real environmental land use and energy production problems that would actually help the environment and save human lives
now, today... but keep an eye on the future... not suggesting head in the sand stuff... just let's stop the panic... if you have to panic it's probly too late... most people don't behave terribly rationally while panicing...
Now, we're pleased to support
Earth Policy Institute's efforts to spread the message of this important book by publishing selections from it.
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Yet carbon dioxide would continue to build up in the atmosphere — breaching the level of 450 parts per million by volume (ppmv) that most climatologists
now recommend as an upper limit, then passing the 550 ppmv mark that is the goal of many current
policy initiatives, and eventually reaching 1,000 ppmv, a level not seen on
Earth since the days of the dinosaurs.
With that extremely poor record of success, one must seriously wonder how it is that any person or government would believe what the climate models of today project about
Earth's climate of tomorrow, i.e., a few decades to a century or more from
now, and then seek to formulate
policy based on that output.
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Lester Brown, founder of Worldwatch, is
now founder and leader of the
Earth Policy Institute, a similar locus of environmental bafflegab.
A Friends of the
Earth lawsuit pushed Ex-Im Bank
policies to protect the climate but it is
now considering financing at least two new major fossil fuel projects:
For more information, see «Meat Consumption in China
Now Double That in the United States,» by Janet Larsen, and the latest book from
Earth Policy Institute, Full Planet, Empty Plates: The New Geopolitics of Food Scarcity, by Lester R. Brown.
Trump's most visible advisor on space
policy has been Bob Walker, a former House Science committee chairman who is
now a space -
policy lobbyist pressing to move «
Earth - centric» and «heavily politicized» climate science out of NASA altogether.
Sonja Meister, Friends of the
Earth Europe's Climate Campaigner, said: «The EU recently pledged to promote the development of renewables, but
now we need to see sound
policies and the kind of investment which is still enjoyed by nuclear and fossil fuels.
Fortunes ride on
policy decisions in every single country on
earth and right
now legislating «green tech» which can't possible stand on its own merits is BIG business.