…virgin wood into useful products. Changing tastes and technological advances are already lightening pressure on forests. Concrete, steel, and plastics have replaced much of the wood once used in railroad…
…more children (53% of Canadian childbearing women had a second child, but only 16% had a third child.) Source of data: United Nations [23]. Fig. 15. Logistic analysis of age-specific…
…the reference case for most IPCC adaptation studies. ANSWERS ABOUT ADAPTATION Vulnerability to climate is lessening. Climate change might cost 0-2 percent. Assume adaptation, not dumb farmers. Integrate analyses of…
…spread. Before giving the answer, let me broaden the context. GREAT REVERSAL, GREAT RESTORATION By the 1990s evidence accumulated that several major environmental indicators had passed an inflection point (Ausubel…
…wood. Instead of logging half the world’s forests, humanity can leave almost 90 % of them minimally disturbed. And nearly all new tree plantations are established on abandoned croplands, which…
We post Jesse’s “Nuclear and Renewable Heresies“, delivered as a plenary address to the Canadian Nuclear Association 10 March 2005 in Ottawa….
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RealClear Energy posted an article by Iddo Wernick on consequences of nations choosing different energy trajectories in the Indo-Pacific region in the year 2050. See The Indo-Pacific in 2050: Alternative…
This essay is adapted from the keynote address to the Business Roundtable’s National Summit on Technology and Climate Change, held August 31, 2000 in Washington DC. The author is grateful…
…Californians, for all their avowed love of nature, spend only about 90 minutes each day outside. 12As mentioned earlier, exposure is felt as dangerous. Home-centered trips occupy about 90% of all…