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See the original article here: Brave New World: Aldous Huxley and Eco Modernism
Tweet The encyclical emphasizes a moral element to the climate debate that the drier analyses miss. I wrote previously that a bishop flubbed a response to a Foxquestion about whether we shouldn’t do other things to help the poor instead of reducing our precious carbon emissions
Link: Someone should collect these climate conversion stories
See the original article here: What Catholic opinion on the death penalty tells you about the encyclical’s future effect
Tweet Nononono, not Roger Pielke Jr, Bjorn Lomborg, Willard Anthony Watts, or Matt King Coal Ridley. Recently as steam has run out on "Coal for Africa" with the falling prices of renewables making them the power source of choice in the third world, especially the rural third world, we have, courtesy of the Breakthrough Institute, Ecomodernism , which, according to the manifestoso In this, we affirm one long-standing environmental ideal, that humanity must shrink its impacts on the environment to make more room for nature, while we reject another, that human societies must harmonize with nature to avoid economic and ecological collapse
Tweet Bunnies may notice that the tag line above has been changed and the give to save the Keeling curve link removed. Â There are two reasons for this. First, thanks in part to you, maybe a little to Eli, funding for the Scripps program has been saved.