Ross Gelbspan’s Posts

• Moral Leadership in the Greenhouse

  A plan to jumpstart the global economy, defuse terrorism, and restore America's world standing 1

  Posted 7 months ago

  A global public-works program to rewire the world with clean energy could solve many of our most pressing problems.

• Beyond the point of no return

  It's too late to stop climate change, argues Ross Gelbspan -- so what do we do now? 45

  Posted 1 year, 11 months ago

   

   

  

  As the pace of global warming kicks into overdrive, the hollow optimism of climate activists, along with the desperate responses of some of the world's most prominent climate scientists, is preventing us from focusing on the survival requirements of the human enterprise.

  The environmental establishment continues to peddle the notion that we can solve the climate problem.

  We can't.

  We have failed to meet nature's deadline. In the next few years, this world will experience progressively more ominous and destabilizing changes. These will happen either incrementally… Read More

• Let's All Go to the Lobby

  Do you know where your candidates stand on climate change? 5

  Posted 3 years, 5 months ago

  With growing numbers of scientists declaring that the global climate crisis is approaching a point of no return, there is a huge and bewildering disconnect between our physical world and our political environment. Our government's response to the prospect of runaway climate impacts is one of paralysis.

  The negligence of the Bush administration is understandable. The White House has become the East Coast branch office of ExxonMobil and Peabody Energy. The fossil-fuel lobby is essentially writing the administration's climate and energy policies. As a result, climate change has become the preeminent case study of the contamination of our political system… Read More

• Sign Here to Save the Planet

  Join a people's campaign to ratify the Kyoto Protocol 0

  Posted 4 years, 9 months ago

  The much-discussed Kyoto Protocol takes effect today, Feb. 16. In the face of the United States' continuing refusal to ratify the international agreement, a group of progressive activists is launching a drive to gather millions of signatures from U.S. citizens for a "People's Ratification of the Kyoto Global Warming Treaty." Ross Gelbspan, a Grist contributor and author of two books on climate change -- The Heat Is On and Boiling Point -- explains why you should put your coffee mug down and sign the petition today.

  What on earth is a person supposed to… Read More

• Clash of the Titans

  An excerpt from Boiling Point by Ross Gelbspan 0

  Posted 5 years, 4 months ago

  Under the administration of George W. Bush, the White House has become the East Coast branch office of ExxonMobil and Peabody Coal, and climate change has become the preeminent case study of the contamination of our political system by money.

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