Ending U.S. and African protein shortages
A little creative thinking could reduce hunger in Africa and meat shortages in America
Getting real about the pandemic
The letter by the 600 medical doctors offers a valuable reminder that other expert knowledge and experience exists and must be expressed and heard
Forecast models encounter reality
People accustomed to seeing forecasts of things that are somewhat remote, somewhat abstract in time, place, and consequences are suddenly being exposed to how the sausage is made in predictive forecasting, and many are not liking what they’ve seen.
U.S. climate scientist James Hansen pushes for Canadian carbon tax
From Canada's Friends of Science: Hansen’s argument is that the tax has to be high enough that people will buy into the carbon dividend (rebate to lower income households).
No returning to normal until we relearn trust
Remember when the pivotal health objective was to "flatten the curve" — before the back to life and business goal post marker got moved to “beating the virus?
Surviving the lockdown
A tourniquet can stop bleeding and save a life. If you don't loosen the tourniquet from time to time, you cut off the blood for too long and lose the limb. If you don't loosen the lockdown you lose America.
Entrepreneurs “cook up” lockdown loophole: online baking
The website Etsy.com, for example, is seeing a huge spike in online sellers of home-baked goods from country farms and family kitchens.
The pivot from Covid to climate is starting
The misery of Covid 19 was real and immediate, and loaded with great uncertainty, while the meaningful threat of global warming remains isolated to computer simulations.
Do lockdowns stop viruses?
Economic lockdowns may have helped initially to slow the coronavirus, but longer-term are ineffective and counterproductive.
Study finds oyster farming poses no threat to shorebirds
“Oyster farming has many ecological benefits and is widely recognized as one of the most ecologically sustainable forms of food production.” Yum.
No to leveraging coronavirus for old state debts
The one thing Congress absolutely shouldn’t do, is shield states from the consequences of their own bad budgetary decisions over past decades.
Robert Redford’s virus politics
The famed actor and his son James see virus lockdowns as a chance to score points.
Be it Covid 19 or climate, Americans have to answer this essential question
How do we weight freedom vs safety?
California’s post COVID-19 financial catastrophe
California avoids addressing causes of its high energy costs.
California Governor makes beachgoers criminals
As the pandemic emergency continues, even as the curve of cases has flattened, the true inner-tyrannical selves of politicians who govern us is showing up more.