Or: Why the climate movement needs a crash course in philosophy
Greg Harman
The environmental community has long illustrated the seriousness of climate change with intimidating facts and figures. The
In the opening of Steven Spielberg’s 1971 film Duel, an impatient salesman gets stuck behind a rattling, soot-belching tractor-trailer on a lonely stretch of California highway. Just before the
Uber, Lyft and Airbnb are trying to combat discrimination within their communities. Are they doing enough to tackle the challenge?
Online forums have long provided an avenue for anonymous venting.
Greg Harman
Voter behavior has long held mysteries for both politicians and psychologists. Why do poor and working-class voters across the US South, for instance, still line up to support
It is impossible to track the parade of headlines warning of the accelerating destruction of the earth’s various life-support systems and not—at least on occasion—succumb to despair.
Driverless cars? Half of all Americans would climb aboard. Brain implants? Nearly 30% are open-minded. In-vitro meat grown in a laboratory? Hold the burger.
Only two out of 10 Americans
The island paradise is under attack. Thanks to destabilizing forces of climate change – rising sea levels and strengthening storms, particularly – some of Earth’s most picturesque locations are being scrubbed
In US politics, global warming has grown more divisive than abortion, gun control, or the death penalty.
Children in the US are traumatized by a school shooting roughly every week.
Ugly, dirty history of spills at San Antonio Refinery seem far from over.
Greg Harman
Consider this my spring cleaning, late as it is. The subject: the mangle of flares
Unpacking the National Climate Assessment and its call for urgent climate action.
The summer of 2011 should have been a wake-up call for Texans. Not only was there a withering
Even as climate change science has tightened to a certainty, we’re witnessing the return of denialist ‘zombie arguments.’
Just over a decade ago, US Senator James Inhofe helped derail
From either an ecological or public relations perspective, the Galveston Bay oil spill in March that released 168,000 gallons of thick, residual oil had the makings of a disaster.
