Category Archives: policy

a line of argument rationalizing the course of action of a government. in representative government, choices are made between various alternative policies after analysis as to which will most achieve a given set of goals, in light of the relations between the policies and the goals. Policy analysis can be divided into two major fields. Analysis of policy, which is analytical and descriptive, attempts to explain policies and their development. Analysis for policy is prescriptive.

Preference for a carbon tax to cutting spending for deficit reduction

Voters support it even when they’re Republican.

Humanity is getting dangerously close to the point of no return

Big Business Ethics: Destroying Life on the Planet as We know It, while making a decent profit.

Wind Power Growing Fast in Parts of the U.S.

By far, the largest wind power producing state is Texas.

Energy Crisis in India

How to share with millions of less powerful people?

No Fracking, It’s Too Costly

“However hard they try to suppress government funding and tax breaks for renewables, Big Oil and Big Gas are doomed to lose, and in only about 4 years.”

Opportunity after the Disaster

Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists has a new article detailing concerns about Japan’s new nuclear regulatory body, and the Diet’s amendment to Japan’s Atomic Energy Basic Law, connecting Japan’s nuclear power policy to “security.” Toki also points to concerns about Japan’s plutonium stores. “

Top New York Regulator Promoting Shale Gas Signed A Climate Denial Petition Stating That Increases In CO2 Are ‘Beneficial’

head of the Department of Environmental Conservation’s Division of Mineral Resources, Bradley J. Field claims that there is “no convincing evidence” that manmade greenhouse gases will disrupt the earth’s climate. On the contrary, the petition cites “substantial scientific evidence that increases in atmospheric carbon dioxide produce many beneficial effects upon the natural plant and animal environments of the earth.”

We’re All Climate-Change Idiots

“local, practical demands of day-to-day life make it difficult to engage with the more abstract, global dangers posed by climate change.”

The Food Stamp Nation

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Global Warming’s Terrifying New Math

End of Life on the Planet as We know It, The Rolling Stone lists some of the companies bringing us this consequence,

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