The Real Green Economy Of The Future | Via Meadia

The real heroes of the environmental movement aren’t celebrity hactivists protesting about pipelines in front of the White House. They are people working to improve video calling technology so fewer businesses will schedule as much travel, people developing software and management practices that make more companies more willing to let more of their workers spend more time telecommuting, and people figuring out how to replace water-cooling with air-cooling when making cement.

Solyndra: The Green Bay Of Pigs?

It seems that Uncle Sam’s Mickey Mouse loan deal to the now-bankrupt solar manufacturer Solyndra was not only a bad investment decision, but likely a contributing factor to the company’s implosion.

Simon Kuper: Climate Change Is A Lost Cause

Nowadays few societies even pretend to be doing anything about climate change. Ordinary people sense the cause is lost. Almost everyone has given up.

When someone offered me a trip to India, I said, "Definitely.” A couple of years ago I’d have fretted about the carbon emissions. But like almost everyone else, I have given up trying to prevent climate change. We in the west have recently made an unspoken bet: we’re going to wing it, run the risk of climatic catastrophe, and hope that it is mostly faraway people in poor countries who will suffer.

Worries about climate probably peaked in 2007. That year I attended a workshop full of northern European policymakers and politicians. The moderator asked who believed climate change was a serious problem. Practically everyone in the room raised their hands. We then spent two days discussing action. I left feeling that if you were running a country like Britain in 2007, you probably thought climate change was the single overriding issue. Terrorism, immigration and even the economy were details by comparison.

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