I showed Lomborg’s film Cool It! to my students last week and was gratified that it received a small ripple of applause. Directed by Ondi Timoner, the film is very much a response to Al Gore’s An Inconvenient Truth, and like that film also shows Lomborg giving a powerpoint presentation, which includes a slide of [...]
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Power Hour: Please don’t turn the Lights Out
I meant to post something about Earth Hour last night when it took place, but ended up sharing dinner with friends- none of whom had heard of it, though its organisers claim it to be the “largest environmental event in history.” Earth Hour was instigated five years ago by the World Wildlife Fund . The [...]
Posted by skepteco on April 1, 2012
http://skepteco.wordpress.com/2012/04/01/power-hour-please-dont-turn-the-lights-out/
Modernization as the road to salvation
An important essay by The Death of Environmentalism authors Michael Shellenberger and Ted Nordhaus appeared in Orion Magazine this week. Entitled Evolve- A case for modernization as the road to salvation, Nordhaus and Shellenberger argue that humans have always used technology to solve problems, and that, while technology can of course also cause problems, the [...]
Posted by skepteco on November 17, 2011
http://skepteco.wordpress.com/2011/11/17/modernization-as-the-road-to-salvation/
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