BY NOT CONFRONTING THE CAUSES OF CLIMATE CHANGE, WE’RE SETTING OURSELVES UP FOR HUGE ECONOMIC AND ECOLOGICAL IMPACTS. A COMPREHENSIVE ANALYSIS BY LANCE OLSEN ON THIS AND THE GREEN NEW DEAL
Photo courtesy Lance Cheung/USDA Forest Service
I’m no climate scientist. The best I can say for myself is that I’ve been a pretty close student of varied specialties associated with climate science for about four decades. For the past 15 or more years, I’ve run a restricted listserv devoted to daily updates on the impact of climate change for all forms of life, habitat, and ecological process on Earth.
My somewhat lengthy acquaintance with climate science hasn’t led me to see a lifeless planet, a treeless planet, or human extinction across the entire Earth. Nothing I know or think I know persuades me to expect anything quite that dire, at least not…
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Exposing the Big Game 