There are a number of ope ed's and such pointing to this poll showing lees public interest and less credibility attributed to warming. http://pewresearch.org/pubs/1386/cap-and-trade-global-warming-opinion there are two issues: first, many more are aware of the issue, but with that awareness come biases that sometime support and sometime undermine the findings. This seems normal as more …
I've been thinking about the humanities and their relation to climate change thinking. We live in a society that is very thing oriented, to the point of being comfortable (what's the big deal?) of thinking of humans as things (scripted robots in some social science). The humanities educates us to the realm of other human …
We have a politics that is based on struggles between – among -factions. And with complexity and population increase, it seems to be capturalble by a small handful. Looking at our history, the war against Mexico, the war against the Philippines were small men wielding big newspapers and driving decisions without a full inquiry. The …
Key segments and analysis of Obama’s MIT speech I want I want to thank all of you for the warm welcome and for the work all of you are doing to generate and test new ideas that hold so much promise for our economy and for our lives. Note priority. Economy. Of course …
Time to think of rewriting GardenWorld Politics. Too much has changed. The much increased role of climate change thinking – and fact. The further collapse of the political process, the move toward anarchy, and the very large number of experiments undertaken in communities around the world.
WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 14, 2009 Why the Dow Broke 10,000, and Why You Should Still Watch Your Wallet How did the Dow break 10,000 when the rest of the economy is in the toilet? 1. Corporate earnings are up — mainly because companies have been cutting costs. Payrolls comprise 70 percent of most companies' costs, which …
excellentanalysis Thus, rather than an endless discussion of biopolitics, sovereignty and disciplinary societies, Bousquet undertakes a novel historical analysis of four different regimes of warfare – the mechanical, the thermodynamic, the cybernetic, and the chaoplexic. Therefore, much like how Foucault uncovers various epistemes within his historical studies, or how Deleuze uncovers abstract machines guiding assemblages …
I see this as a bellwether.. integrating softer hard science with harder soft science. There is an ongoing rapprochement of mainstream towards real people. Motive for this? Toward a more adequate administrative state? Who is funding the research? Much is military and Homeland Security. I think this supports the technocratic scenario, as does Soros's grants …
Soros sets some pace COPENHAGEN Reuters – Billionaire George Soros said on Saturday that he would invest $1 billion in clean energy technology as part of an effort to combat climate change.The Hungarian-born U.S. investor also announced he would form and fund a new climate policy initiative with $10 million a year for 10 years."Global …