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Lessons from Industrial Disaster in an Unpredictable Age
| Guy Walker | May 9, 2011 |
As the Gulf oil spill of April 2010 came and went -- public outcry now quieted and offshore drilling now resumed -- so too seems the case with the nuclear fallout of Japan. Currently, the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) are determining the future of more than a dozen aging nuclear reactors in the United States, some of which are of the same design as the Fukushima Daiichi reactors that exploded and melted down last month. The bureaucrats at NRC however, have never denied a nuclear plant application for renewal.
Nuclear armageddon and the experts
| Joanne Landy | March 17, 2011 |
New Politics readers will be interested in reading Mina Hamilton's sharp analysis of Japan's nuclear crisis in her recent article on Dissident Voice. Since the article was published on March 16, Mina has added the following note:
Climate wars
| James Bargent | January 27, 2011 |
The international climate change summit in Cancún in December 2010 produced an agreement that host president Felipe Calderon of Mexico declared a “success for humanity and reason”. All the major economies pledged to reduce carbon emissions and agreed to establish a ‘Green fund’ to financially help developing countries adapt to climate change. One country however, remained deeply critical of the document and refused to ratify the agreement.
The Return of Limits
| by Ashley Dawson | Winter 2007 |
"Nature has a habit of returning with a pitchfork" -- Francis Bacon
Why We Need a Global Green New Deal
| by Ashley Dawson | Winter 2010 |
The United States, and with it the rest of the world, is experiencing the initial stages of an unprecedented emergency brought on by three intertwined factors: a credit-fueled financial crisis, gyrating energy prices linked to speculation about the future peaking of oil supplies, and an accelerating climate crisis.
The Return of Limits
| by Ashley Dawson | Summer 2007 |
"Nature has a habit of returning with a pitchfork" — Francis Bacon