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More Precious Than Gold

How a Carbon-based Cryptocurrency Might Save Our Planet

September 19, 2019 • by Gustav Peebles and Ben Luzzatto

Today, we are existentially threatened by our own waste production: atmospheric carbon. But what if we took a cue both from nature and endless generations of farmers, and re-labeled our carbon waste as central, as fertile; as the font of all value in the system? For eons, farmers have known ...

The New Trail of Tears

How climate change is forcing the relocation of species, including our own

July 25, 2019 • by Brian Stewart

In 1830 Congress passed the Indian Removal Act, designed to appropriate to the United States lands occupied by aboriginal Americans. The Supreme Court ruled it unconstitutional, but the army under Commander in Chief Andrew Jackson acted anyway. Now a lightning rod for condemnation of the expropriation of indigenous property, Jackson ...

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Science Fake and Real

On Enlightenment scientists and the forgotten role of imagination

June 23, 2018 • by Tita Chico

Headlines today pop with accusations that traditional sources of knowledge and even experts are biased, ideological, and unreliable. Accusations of “fake science” have become particularly commonplace. The Heritage Foundation think tank reports on the pervasiveness of fake science, laying the blame on scientists themselves. In their view, climate change isn’t caused by ...

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Economic Impact of Weather Shocks & Climate Change

How can countries cope?

May 25, 2018 • by Michael Flaherty and Isabella Rigamonti

On Thursday, April 12, The New School hosted, in conjunction with the Schwartz Center for Economic Policy Analysis (SCEPA), a lecture on the economic impacts of climate change and the opportunities to both adapt to and mitigate it. Economic Impacts of Weather Shocks & Climate Change is a continuation of ...

Economic Impact of Weather Shocks & Climate Change

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Mapping Climate Justice

Visualizing the Burden of Climate Stabilization

November 28, 2017 • by Julia Puaschunder

First, the principle of climate justice within a country. This means that, as each country moves toward accomplishing their climate justice goals, low- and high-income households should share the same burden proportional to their dispensable income as they do so. This principle can be realized through progressive carbon taxation. In ...

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Financing the Transition to a Low-Carbon Economy

Report and Response

October 23, 2017 • by Michael Flaherty

Once per semester, SCEPA sponsors an event relating to climate change policy and invites some of the most notable names in climate modeling and/or policymaking to give their perspectives on recent developments in climate change scholarship. This most recent event featured Dr. Nebojsa Nakicenovic and Dr. Paolo Galizzi. Dr. Nakicenovic, ...

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The Climate of Post-Truth Populism

Science vs. the People

June 21, 2017 • by Amanda Machin, Alexander Ruser and Nikolaus von Andrian Werburg

Has politics ever been about telling the truth? Recent declarations of the rise of a “post-truth” era irresistibly provoke this question. Declared the 2016 Word of the Year, “post-truth” describes “circumstances in which objective facts are less influential in shaping public opinion than appeals to emotion and personal belief.” One of ...

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DC Climate March

April 29th 2017

May 5, 2017 • by Jo Freeman

Over one hundred thousand people marched down Pennsylvania Ave. from the Capitol on April 29, the one-hundredth day of Trump’s presidency. As though to emphasize the cost of global warming, Mother Nature graced the day with temperatures over 90 degrees. During the morning people gathered on the Mall in front of ...

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DC March for Science

April 22nd 2017

April 28, 2017 • by Jo Freeman

One of several hundred marches around the world, the March for Science in DC attracted about 20,000 participants despite a steady rain. People packed the Mall around the Washington Monument in the morning to listen to speakers and entertainers before marching off to the Capitol in the afternoon. Before the ...

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Climate Policies After Paris

June 16, 2016 • by Michael Flaherty

Toward the end of 2015, leaders from around the world convened in Paris for the latest round of international climate talks. This marks the 21^st annual Conference of Parties of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change. More than 40,000 people from over 150 countries attended the conference, representing ...

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The Green Growth Path to Climate Stabilization

May 31, 2016 • by Robert Pollin

The World Resources Council recently reported that between 2000 and 2014, 21 countries, including the U.S., Germany, the U.K., Spain and Sweden, all managed to “decouple” GDP growth from CO₂ emissions -- i.e. GDP in these countries expanded over this 14-year period while CO₂ emissions fell.[1] This is ...

The Green Growth Path to Climate Stabilization

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The Nothingness That Speaks French

November 13, 2014 • by McKenzie Wark

Quentin Meillassoux's The Number and the Siren (published by Urbanomic and Sequence Press, and elegantly translated by Robin Mackay) is quite simply the most beautiful book by a philosopher that I have read for many years. It is a highly original reading of Stéphane Mallarmé's Coup De Dés. If the objective of Meillassoux’s ...