Decarbonization: The Next 100 Years

…the energy supply to the total energy supply, for example, tons of carbon per tons of oil equivalent encompassing all energy supplies. Alternately, think hydrocarbons.  Both hydrogen and carbon burn to release…

Reasons to Worry About the Human Environment

JH Ausubel. Journal of the Cosmos Club of Washington D.C 8 (1): 12 1998 Republished in Technology in Society 21:217-231, 1999. 

…the technologies that enable compliance. In a more general way, the chance that small leaks from our industrial system have large behavioral consequences intensifies my interest in industrial ecology.l6 Industrial ecology…

The Environment Since 1970

JH Ausubel, DG Victor, IK Wernick. Consequences: The Nature and Implications of Environmental Change 1 (3): 2–15 1995

…the environment Indicators for environmental issues may be grouped by geographical scale, namely those associated with large areal or global issues; those primarily significant at a regional level; and those…

Optimistic About Our Environmental Future

…territory, whether actual territory or physical possessions, is deeply wired into our brains and not easily satisfied. “Bill Gates may have $100 billion,” Ausubel points out, “but he hasn’t run…

Chernobyl After Perestroika: Reflections on a Recent Visit

JH Ausubel. Technology in Society 14: 187–198 1992

…the United States. How would Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory maintain itself? Almost 100% of its support is federal tax money. Thus, many Soviet scientists seem little impressed by nationalistic arguments….