Author Archives: PaulVK

http://www.nybooks.com/articles/archives/2014/dec/04/can-climate-change-cure-capitalism/ To draw on Klein paraphrasing Al Gore, here’s my inconvenient truth: when you tell people what it would actually take to radically reduce carbon emissions, they turn away. They don’t want to give up air travel or air conditioning … Continue reading →

Imaginary Civil Conversation The Atlantic http://www.nationalreview.com/article/392929/shirtgate-and-common-decency-jonah-goldberg

Washington Post

City Journal

Shuttering The World’s Coal Plants Isn’t Enough http://dish.andrewsullivan.com/2014/11/19/shuttering-the-worlds-coal-plants-isnt-enough/ http://spectrum.ieee.org/energy/renewables/what-it-would-really-take-to-reverse-climate-change

NY Times

The Verge The Hunger Games franchise is unique because of how well it understands the power of images and pop culture, but it’s also incapable of breaking out of the larger narrative that pervades young adult literature and, ironically, Hollywood: … Continue reading →

Wired “solution aversion”

The Economist HT Dreher Archbishop’s Address