The potential catastrophe of climate change
From New Scientist, the best of expert opinion on population. Let's try cap-and-trade on babies: Population growth is the real driver for higher greenhouse gas emission, so why don't more mainstream solutions start there? Capitalism in Wonderland: The inability of received economics to cope with or even perceive the global ecological crisis is alarming in its scope and implications. From Mother Jones, a special section on the Copenhagen Climate Countdown. Recipe for Failure: Why Copenhagen will be a bust, and other prophecies from Bruce Bueno de Mesquita, the foreign-policy world's leading predictioneer. Anthony Giddens reviews Saving Kyoto: An Insider's Guide to the Kyoto Protocol: How it Works, Why it Matters and What it Means for the Future by Graciela Chichilnisky and Kristen Sheeran. From M/C Journal, a special
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