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China ...	David Roberts	10 Jun 2008	Gristmill
... is heading for a wall.In the debate over climate and sustainable development, people often talk about China as though it is some sort of rapacious automaton, blindly dedicated to growing its economy no matter the cost. But while I've never been to China, I'm told it's filled with intelligent people. They know how to read -- for instance, how to read reports saying they're on track to exhaust their natural resources in the next couple of decades. Presumably the Chin ...
Topics: China, economy, politics (all these topics)

Ne Gus ultra Gus Speth chats about his new book and increasingly radical green views	David Roberts	10 Jun 2008	Gristmill
Gus Speth. When Gus Speth gets radical, it's time to start digging bunkers. For more than 30 years, Speth has labored as the consummate environmental insider, having founded an environmental think tank (World Resources Institute), co-founded a major green group (Natural Resources Defense Council), advised a president (Clinton), administered a United Nations agency (U.N. Development Program), and taught in the high echelons of American academia (Georgeto ...
Topics: books, climate, economy, environmental movement, greenhouse-gas emissions, interview (all these topics)

Energy prices	David Roberts	09 Jun 2008	Gristmill
Conservatives want to terrify voters at the prospect of climate policy raising energy prices. Meanwhile: 'Wealth Evaporates as Gas Prices Clobber McMansions.' How long will we stay on this sinking ship?
Topics: climate change mitigation, economy, energy, gas prices, messaging, politics (all these topics)

Cause and effect	David Roberts	05 Jun 2008	Gristmill
Here's a sentence from a new story in the WSJ: The second-poorest state in the nation based on household income, West Virginia counts on coal to support its economy. May I suggest a rewrite? West Virginia counts on coal to support its economy; as a consequence, it is the second-poorest state in the nation based on household income.
Topics: economy, West Virginia, energy, coal (all these topics)

Calling all economists Are the CGE models useful for predicting the effects of climate policy?	Clark Williams-Derry	05 Jun 2008	Gristmill
Photo: StuSeeger via Flickr. My pal Peter Dorman is looking for answers: Does the class of economic forecasting tools known as 'computable general equilibrium models' (aka CGE models) have any documented track record of success? This may seem like an arcane point, but it's quite relevant to climate policy. Government agencies throughout North America are using CGE models to forecast the economic impacts of various cap-and-trade proposals. But many academic ...
Topics: business, carbon trading, climate, economy (all these topics)

A tool in the toolbox Richard Revesz responds to Lisa Heinzerling, defending cost-benefit analysis	Guest author	05 Jun 2008	Gristmill
This is a guess essay from Richard L. Revesz, dean of New York University School of Law and co-author, with Michael A. Livermore, of Retaking Rationality: How Cost-Benefit Analysis Can Better Protect the Environment and Our Health, published by Oxford University Press. It continues a dialogue with professor Lisa Heinzerling: see Revesz's initial post and Heinzerling's response. ----- Cost-benefit analysis, correctly applied to many environmental problems, will show ...
Topics: economy, environmental movement, health, messaging (all these topics)

Brit's Eye View: Sustaining sustainability Can sustainability survive the recession?	Ben Tuxworth	05 Jun 2008	Gristmill
Ben Tuxworth, communications director at Forum for the Future, writes a monthly column for Gristmill on sustainability in the U.K. and Europe. ----- What will the recession mean for sustainability? With the U.S. subprime tsunami still breaking on Britain's shores, house prices in freefall, and several major financial institutions in trouble, it's becoming a hot topic in the U.K. now, with pundits wading in on both sides. Media framing has a tendency ...
Topics: economy, United Kingdom (all these topics)

Green jobs are America's jobs Report: Strong climate policy would protect 14 million American jobs	Brad Johnson	04 Jun 2008	Gristmill
Originally posted at the Wonk Room. A new report from the Political Economy Research Institute at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, finds that strong climate policy is a driver for a healthy economy. A policy that prioritizes energy efficiency and renewable energy -- such as cap-and-trade legislation that limits carbon emissions -- will drive investment into those sectors. From day one, the millions of Americans working in such jobs will enjoy greater job sec ...
Topics: climate, legislation, green jobs, economy, business (all these topics)

Nukes, part II: nuclear bomb Bite-sized version of longer nuke study is on Salon	Joseph Romm	03 Jun 2008	Gristmill
If you are looking for a shorter, more readable version of my study, 'The Self-Limiting Future of Nuclear Power,' I've got just the thing. Salon has published my article, 'Nuclear bomb: Nuclear energy, the sequel, is opening to raves by everybody from John McCain to a Greenpeace co-founder. Don't be fooled. It's the Ishtar of power generation.' As the article points out, back in May 2001, the Economist explained ($ub. req'd) that nuclear power had fallen out of favor ...
Topics: economy, energy, nuclear power (all these topics)

Tuesday link dump A little bit of this, a smidge of that	David Roberts	03 Jun 2008	Gristmill
The ol' browser's getting a little clogged up. Time to stop thinkin' and start linkin'! Yee-haw. ----- Eco-friendly bombs! A couple of crack economists at Environmental Defense Fund synthesized the results of several different economic models projecting the impact of cap-and-trade legislation. Their conclusion? A business-as-usual approach, continuing with today's policies, puts the U.S. economy on a path to reach $26 trillion in January 2030. With a cap on the ...
Topics: public transportation, energy, climate, carbon tax, economy, websites (all these topics)

Globalization death watch, Part I Airlines, cargo ships increasingly desperate due to rising fuel costs	Jon Rynn	02 Jun 2008	Gristmill
Globalization was built on cheap oil. As that era draws to a close, so will the current phase of global integration, whether Thomas Friedman, Wal-Mart, and all those involved in intercontinental trade like it or not. The current transportation infrastructure is based on cars, trucks, airplanes, and cargo ships, which together consume about 70 percent of the gasoline used in the United States. While the greatest focus has been on cars, trucking and airline companies are ...
Topics: air travel, economy, energy, gas prices, oil, placemaking (all these topics)

Y2.1K Ignoring climate change will cost U.S. big bucks, says group		23 May 2008	News
Posted at 11:34 AM on 23 May 2008 Doing nothing in the face of climate change would cost the U.S. $1.9 trillion a year (in today's dollars) by the turn of the next century, says a new report from green group NRDC. That includes big spending on severe-weather damage, real-estate losses, and energy and water costs. The NRDC report is aimed to counter claims that the Lieberman-Warner bill, set to hit the Senate floor in June, will s ...
Topics: climate, climate change impacts, economy, news, NRDC, United States (all these topics)

Notable quotable Earth screwed, but small Japanese towns happy	David Roberts	23 May 2008	Gristmill
'We are seeing a flicker of light after long darkness. We never imagined coal would actually make a comeback.' -- Michio Sakurai, mayor of Bibai, Japan, a coal mining town being revived by the international surge of demand for coal
Topics: coal, economy, energy, Japan, quotables (all these topics)

Whirled Bank Does the bank have a legitimate role in solving the climate crisis?	Erik Hoffner	21 May 2008	Gristmill
The World Bank, which once upon a time wanted to rid the world of poverty, is now trying to position itself as climate crisis savior -- but at the same time is continuing its fossilized ways. So says EarthBeat Radio -- check out their illuminating podcast on it. Janet Redman, the author of a report entitled 'The World Bank: Climate Profiteer,' is interviewed about a $2 billion portfolio of carbon offsets for industries in the global north to be developed in the global s ...
Topics: carbon offsets, climate, economy, environmental justice, World Bank (all these topics)

Weather or Not U.S. greenhouse-gas emissions rising		20 May 2008	News
Posted at 2:00 PM on 20 May 2008 U.S. carbon-dioxide emissions increased 1.6 percent in 2007, according to the Energy Information Administration. Factors at fault, according to the EIA: wacky weather that increased the need for heating and cooling, and "a higher carbon intensity of electricity supply." (Our electricity supply is carbon-intensive? Who knew?) The agency was quick to point out that GDP grew 2.7 percent in 2007, so " ...
Topics: climate, economy, energy, greenhouse-gas emissions, news, severe weather, United States (all these topics)

Driven to abstraction The climate crisis cannot be solved without cost-benefit analysis	Ryan Avent	17 May 2008	Gristmill
Lisa Heinzerling, a Georgetown law professor, has written an essay arguing against the embrace of cost-benefit analysis by environmentalists. She suggests that environmentalists enjoy nature in a very concrete and reverential manner that cannot be captured by economic analysis. I think this is a fairly substantial misinterpretation of the use of cost-benefit analysis. Heinzerling makes a number of key errors. First, economists aren't pulling their discount rates out ...
Topics: climate, economy (all these topics)

Dairy, Dairy, Quite Contrary Why that organic label on your milk doesn't tell the whole story	Tom Philpott	16 May 2008	Victual Reality
Tastes great, but who's paying the health-care bills? As a writer, one of my goals is to demystify farming for non-farmers -- to remind people that their food comes from somewhere, grown by someone, often drawing down finite resources. Less than 2 percent of Americans farm, yet all of us eat. Whether you're scarfing a Whopper or savoring a farmers' market peach, food has a hi ...
Topics: agriculture, economy, food, organic food, sustainable ag, Victual Reality (all these topics)

Cost-benefit environmentalism: an oxymoron Lisa Heinzerling responds to Richard Revesz on cost-benefit analysis	Guest author	14 May 2008	Gristmill
This is a guest essay from Lisa Heinzerling, Professor of Law at Georgetown University and author, with Frank Ackerman, of Priceless: On Knowing the Price of Everything and the Value of Nothing, published in 2004 by The New Press. ----- The efficient wasteland In his essay, Richard Revesz argues in favor of a 'cost-benefit environmentalism' that embraces economic analysis and "uses both reason and compassion to justify strong environmental rules." It is wo ...
Topics: economy, environmental movement, health, messaging, politics (all these topics)

Gasoline demand explained Why it took us so long to internalize the rise in gas prices	Charles Komanoff	13 May 2008	Gristmill
With gas at $3.50 a gallon in April, the U.S. mainstream media is replete with stories of drivers abandoning SUVs, hopping on mass transit, and otherwise cutting back on gasoline. Yet a year or two ago, when pump prices were approaching and even passing the $3.00 'barrier,' the media mantra was that demand for gasoline was so inelastic that high prices were barely making a dent in usage. Which story is correct? I lean toward the more 'elastic' view, and here I'd ...
Topics: economy, energy, gas prices, oil (all these topics)

No country for poor (wo)men Higher food prices likely mean more health problems for low-income folks	Tom Philpott	13 May 2008	Gristmill
I doubt if many people really believe that the recent spike in food prices will, as a New York Times piece put it, 'make organic food more accessible' and force people into healthier eating patterns. (I wrote about this topic in a recent Victual Reality column.) For those who do, I offer this remark from Adam Drewnowski, an epidemiologist from the University of Washington, quoted in the Philadelphia Inquirer:The food crisis will make obesity and attendant diabetes even ...
Topics: economy, environmental justice, food (all these topics)

Fuzzy math How much will it really cost to address climate change?	Andrew Dessler	12 May 2008	Gristmill
One of the consistent claims made by those opposed to policies to reduce greenhouse-gas emissions is that the cost will be prohibitive. I have always been somewhat suspicious of this claim, however. When I started graduate school in 1988, the Montreal Protocol had just been signed. It required industrialized countries to significantly reduce the production of chlorofluorocarbons within a decade or so (the exact schedule of production reduction depended on the particu ...
Topics: climate, climate change mitigation, economy, greenhouse-gas emissions (all these topics)

China's coming land grab More hidden costs of our love affair with cheap imported goods	Tom Philpott	11 May 2008	Gristmill
Remember a couple of weeks ago, when a Brazilian soy magnate turned a voracious eye on the Amazon rainforest, marveling at how awesome it would be to raze more of it to plant soy? Blairo Maggi, known as Brazil's 'soy king,' said this: With the worsening of the global food crisis, the time is coming when it will be inevitable to discuss whether we preserve the environment or produce more food. There is no way to produce more food without occupying more land and taking d ...
Topics: China, rainforests, economy, agriculture, Brazil, Big Ag (all these topics)

The $3 trillion shopping spree	David Roberts	09 May 2008	Gristmill
How are you going to spend your $3 trillion? I just put this in my cart.
Topics: climate, climate change mitigation, economy, websites (all these topics)

Five bucks a gallon? Goldman says oil 'likely' to hit $150-$200 by 2010	Joseph Romm	08 May 2008	Gristmill
Goldman Sachs' Arjun N. Murti said this in a May 5 report: The possibility of $150-$200 per barrel seems increasingly likely over the next 6-24 months, though predicting the ultimate peak in oil prices as well as the remaining duration of the upcycle remains a major uncertainty. That would mean gasoline prices of $5 to $6 a gallon. Unless, of course, we permanently suspend the gasoline tax, in which case gasoline prices would only be $5 to $6 a gallon. Why sho ...
Topics: business, economy, energy, oil (all these topics)

Cost-benefit environmentalism The green community should mend, not work in vain to end, cost-benefit analysis	Guest author	08 May 2008	Gristmill
This is a guess essay from Richard L. Revesz, Dean of New York University School of Law and co-author, with Michael A. Livermore, of Retaking Rationality: How Cost-Benefit Analysis Can Better Protect the Environment and Our Health, published this month by Oxford University Press. ----- Failing the cost-benefit test The R. Gallagher coal-fired power plant in Indiana emits over 50,000 tons of sulfur dioxide per year. Sulfur dioxide is a major component of partic ...
Topics: air pollution, coal, economy, environmental movement, politics, regulation (all these topics)

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