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 Stories About: politics AND climate AND energy AND books AND Newt Gingrich
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Technology alone won't alleviate climate change
NYT's Andy Revkin and E. O. Wilson get suckered by Newt Gingrich's phony techno-optimism |
Joseph Romm |
16 Nov 2007 |
Gristmill |
| Newt Gingrich is an anti-environmentalist who spreads disinformation and has done more than any politician in the last two decades to thwart a sensible climate policy that includes a major clean technology component, as I have explained. Absent serious regulations, no technology-only strategy can possibly avoid catastrophic global warming (as we should have learned in the 1990s). Some well-meaning people, like The New York Times' first-rate climate reporter Andy ... |
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| Topics: books, climate, energy, Newt Gingrich, politics, tech (all these topics) |
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Don't buy Gingrich's view of environmentalism, or his new book
Anti-environment, anti-technology Gingrich tries to rewrite history |
Joseph Romm |
14 Nov 2007 |
Gristmill |
| If you look up the word 'Orwellian' on Wikipedia -- 'An attitude and a policy of control by propaganda, misinformation, denial of truth, and manipulation of the past' -- there should be a picture of Newt Gingrich's new book, A Contract with the Earth. Instead of wasting time reading a whole book of disinformation, you can just read this interview in Salon, 'Give Newt a chance' -- it is definitely all the Newt that is fit to print. To cut to the chase, readers of ... |
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| Topics: politics, climate, energy, books, Newt Gingrich (all these topics) |
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