As the Earth continues to heat up because of global warming one must wonder if the policy decisions reached at the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) will be too late. It should come as no surprise that the Earth is getting hotter. Recent scientific findings have definitively concluded that the Earth’s temperature […]
My philosophy on climate change policy resembles a combination of the three lenses described by Parker and Blodgett in the CRS Report for Congress: the “technological lens,” the “economic lens,” and the “ecological lens.” Each lens has a different view of the global climate change problem. The technological lens views climate change as an opportunity […]
Climate change is not an issue to be fixed by entire populations; it won’t require an inspiring montage of an entire community pitching in, bicycling instead of driving cars and turning off lights when they aren’t in use (with the help of their animal friends à la Snow White). It cannot require a change […]
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My viewpoint on climate change most closely resembles the “ecological lens” described by Parker and Blodgett. I grew up chasing frogs in muddy streams and burying walnuts for the squirrels to eat in the winter. Yup, I was that kid: the one with mulch in her pockets, who never owned a white shirt because they […]
Pennsylvania Governor Ed Rendell initially provided hope to those interested Pennsylvanians who view solutions to climate change through economic lenses. Sadly, on Wednesday, September 2, 2009, Governor Rendell announced that he is giving up on a policy likely to maximize net social welfare. He has backed down on his proposed 5% severance tax on Marcellus Shale […]
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