California was on fire once again. Countries such as Ireland, Norway and Switzerland that top HDI rankings, are among the world’s biggest resource consumers and carbon polluters per person. This relativist approach masks a fundamental reality: the rest of the world cannot scale up to the lifestyle of high-income countries without severely overshooting the planet’s finite limits. Costa Rica has …
It is easy to see how any casual observer following today’s environmental news might conclude that the one and only thing required to rescue the Earth, and thereby humanity, is a halt to global warming. Why Americans doubt man-made climate change Therefore, environmental movements should put out a new headline: “The Bloated Economies of the Global North Need to Go …
