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Colleague Activities
Climate Protest Tracker
A one-stop source for following global trends in climate policy protests since 2022 from the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace
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In This Together
A campaign to help save the environment and repair our democracy by growing a diverse bipartisan community of America's silenced majority: common sense problem-solvers willing to overcome fear, anger, and division.
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Climate Security: Finding Shared Solutions to Shared Challenges
ConnexUs's knowledge-sharing campaign is designed to promote discussion, shared learning and collaboration among peacebuilding, development, and humanitarian practitioners working on climate issues.
News and Opinion
The Environmentalists Undermining Environmentalism
A reminder that efforts to limit climate change will require us all to make tough choices and sacrifices -- including environmentalists.
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Beyond Catastrophe: A New Climate Reality Is Coming Into View
Hopeful news that, despite many, many problems, our efforts to combat climate change are having an impact and the future is starting to look a bit brighter. Keep working, things aren't hopeless.
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The Democrats' Climate Problem
A detailed account of one case in which conflict dynamics have pushed problem-solving efforts toward extremes---extremes which undermine efforts to deal with the problem.
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U.S. Extreme Weather in 2022
An extensive and long-term look at statistics on the incidence of different types of bad weather that makes it clear that it's not all climate change and that disaster preparedness is essential.
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The Dawn of Nuclear Energy Abundance
As we start to spend big money on the shift away from carbon-based fuels, hard questions about the limits of wind and solar and hopeful thoughts about the promise of nuclear energy.
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We need an area the size of Texas for wind and solar. Here's how to halve it.
An important first effort to seriously consider (and find constructive ways of limiting) the growing opposition to the staggering amounts of land that a wind/solar-based energy system will require.
News and Opinion
Climate Change and Disaster Losses
A look at what one needs to consider if one wants to rigorously assess the impacts of climate change (and allocate scarce resources wisely).
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Climate Journalism is Broken
A look at the way in which the many problems afflicting contemporary journalism are impacting coverage of climate-related issues and, potentially, distorting our response to the crisis.
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Backlash to climate policies is growing. A new strategy is needed.
Growing reason to believe that many projects designed to reduce CO2 emissions are running into serious trouble because of a failure to anticipate respond effectively to likely sources of conflict.
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Turning Down the Temperature on Extreme Claims About Extreme Weather
A look at the complex methodological issues surrounding efforts to understand the impact of climate change, plus an argument that things are not quite as bad as commonly portrayed.
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The Climate-Change 'Emergency' Is Coming for You
A skeptical account of the wisdom of many current climate change policies and a preview of emerging conflicts over those policies. Protecting the climate will require more constructive responses.
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The Coming Revolution in Climate Research
For those who recognize the importance of "trusting the science" with respect to climate issues, welcome news that the science is about to get much better (and more reassuring).
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Why America Doesn't Build
An essay examining ways in which an inability to constructively navigate the many conflicts associated with the transition to a net zero energy economy is threatening to undermine the entire effort.
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Bone-Chilling
The story about how important it is that we maintain our infrastructure in ways that allow it to cope with extreme events.
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How Much Does it Cost to Build a Nuclear Power Plant?
For a time when efforts to speed the transition to carbon-free energy sources are encountering difficulties, welcome news that nuclear power may be cheaper than we thought.
News and Opinion
How Climate Policy Went Wrong
Hard questions about whether our climate strategy is going to be able to achieve its desired objective or whether we're just wasting money on a green energy industrial complex. We can't afford to get this wrong.
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Don't San Francisco--ize Clean Energy
An important story about a second-order problem that presents a serious threat to efforts to reduce carbon emissions.
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Unleash the power of bipartisan NRC reform
For those who recognize the importance of moving as rapidly as possible to limit carbon emissions, sensible proposals for improving our ability to take advantage of nuclear power.
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The Climate Fix Book Club, Chapter 9 & Full Book
Links to a thoughtful series of articles (and an online book) that try to get beyond climate hysteria and focus on what, exactly, the science is telling us about how to most effectively address the problem.
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Is Global Climate Policy Working?
If you really care about the climate (and you should), you ought to be asking hard questions like this about whether current policies are actually working.
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Defending the status quo is not environmentalism
A reminder that the banana syndrome (build absolutely nothing anywhere near anything) can't successfully protect the environment.
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Amid explosive demand, America is running out of power
Startling statistics about how much energy AI is going to consume and how that is likely to affect our efforts to move away from fossil fuels.
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Follow the Science' Leads to Ruin
Thoughts on how climate orthodoxies could be making things worse, rather than better -- comments that those concerned about climate ought to carefully consider.
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California's Electricity Disaster In Seven Charts
If we are going to save the climate by electrifying everything, then we better be able to produce a lot of clean electricity.
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The 'Blood Bath' Battle and the Electric Car War
An exploration of the looming political battle over EV vehicle mandates (and the way in which that debate is being expressed in 2024 campaign rhetoric).
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The U.S. Urgently Needs a Bigger Grid. Here's a Fast Solution.
An example of the kind of unexpected and seemingly insignificant technology that could emerge from the shadows and play a big role in making the energy transition successful.
BI Article
Power Inequities
Plutarch wrote, "An imbalance between rich and poor is the oldest and most fatal ailment of all republics." This essay deals with the power inequities that have existed in almost all human societies.
Colleague Activities
The Violence, Inequality and Power Lab (VIP Lab) at the Kroc Institute for Peace and Justice at the University of San Diego
The VIP Lab seeks to understand how power inequalities cause violence. They provide actionable ideas to be implemented at the systems level to confront harmful power inequalities and reduce violence.
News and Opinion
How Democracies Live: The Long Struggle for Equality Amid Diversity
An in-depth review and summary of two major new books that explore options for strengthening democracy in ways that better cope with socio-cultural diversity and economic inequity.
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The Great Convergence: Global Equality and Its Discontents
Amid our continuing anguish over Increasing inequality, an essay that takes a global perspective -- one that reveals that, at that level, inequality is decreasing, not increasing.
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Why Does Everyone Feel So Insecure All the Time?
A provocative exploration of a different kind of inequality. Unlike inequalities of wealth and income, this article focuses on the differences between the secure and the insecure.
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How Elites Ate the Social Justice Movement
An overview a new book that explores the complex relationship between social justice elites and the people who have truly been treated unjustly by society.
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America's two homelessness problems
A thoughtful look at the two very different elements of homelessness (and options for better dealing with both problems).
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How Democrats Lost Voters With a 'Compensate Losers' Strategy
Reflections on the impact of the political strategy that focuses on providing financial assistance to the disadvantaged (rather than removing those disadvantages).
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Why America Abandoned the Greatest Economy in History
Reflections on what it was that made the United States' economy so phenomenally productive and thoughts about why those sources of strength are being abandoned.
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Another Wrong Way to Measure Poverty
A surprising story about the muddeled and misleading way in which we gather statistics about the incidence of poverty (and some proposed fixes).
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What Does the Working Class Really Want?
A pretty persuasive argument that neither Republicans nor Democrats understand the grievances motivating working-class populism. Also missing are proposals for addressing those grievances.
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Income Inequality Has Been Transformed Globally
An update on changes that have occurred in global income inequality since publication of the original "elephant curve" analysis.
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The Coming Working Class Election
With working-class voters comprising over 60% of the electorate -- a look at the critical role that they are going to play in the upcoming election in their relationship with college-educated elites.
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The Grand Canyon-Sized Chasm Between Elites and Ordinary Americans
The report on what is likely the United States' biggest and most consequential political divide --- the one that separates elites from the rest of society.
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Rob Henderson: Social Class, Elite Virtue Signaling, and "Luxury Beliefs"
An essay exploring the sociology of "luxury beliefs" and the way in which those beliefs signal status and virtue while undermining societal problem solving.
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Preach What You Practice: Charles Murray on Our New Class Divide: Coming Apart: The State of White America, 1960--2010
A report on a pretty persuasive conservative strategy for limiting inequality from Charles Murray -- one of the first to highlight the class tensions that would give rise to Donald Trump.
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Preach What You Practice: Charles Murray on Our New Class Divide: Coming Apart: The State of White America, 1960--2010
A report on a pretty persuasive conservative strategy for limiting inequality from Charles Murray -- one of the first to highlight the class tensions that would give rise to Donald Trump.
News and Opinion
Why good news about inequality is awkward for the left and right
Eye-opening news about serious flaws in the way in which we have, for decades, been calculating statistics about poverty and the level of inequality.
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Why good news about inequality is awkward for the left and right
Eye-opening news about serious flaws in the way in which we have, for decades, been calculating statistics about poverty and the level of inequality.
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The War on Poverty Is Over. Rich People Won.
The sociologist Matthew Desmond believes that being poor is different in the U.S. than in other rich countries.
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Are we overproducing elites and instability?
A perceptive argument that some of our most difficult conflicts stem from the fact that more people feel entitled to elite positions within society than society has to offer.
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Embrace your Inner Barbarian
A provocative and challenging essay that asks today's highly educated elites to quit defending just their narrow interests and start defending the interests of society as a whole.
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The Billionaires Who Are Threatening Democracy
In his new book, the historian Quinn Slobodian writes about the ideologues who believe that society should prioritize capital, not people.
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Assortative Mating and Income Inequality
The report on the stodgy demographic term "assortive mating" -- a phenomenon that contributes greatly to both political tensions and societal inequality.
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The Inequality Myth
Another one of those contrarian arguments that asks us to reconsider (or at least temper) the conventional wisdom. This one makes a hopeful argument that inequality is not as bad as we previously thought.