Articles by Jason D Scorse
Jason Scorse, Ph.D., is Associate Professor and Chair of the International Environmental Policy Program at the Monterey Institute of International Studies. His book What Environmentalists Need to Know About Economics is available at Amazon.
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An opportunity for reflection
I know the issue of Gore's carbon emissions has already been a subject of discussion here on Grist, but this recent article in USA Today raised my eyebrows even more. Gore gets 20K a year from zinc mine concessions? From a company with a poor environmental record? His massive energy use isn't from green power at all? Zero. The DNC hasn't been willing to pay the extra 2 cents a kilowatt hour for green power?
Look, I'm a policy guy and I don't think changes in personal lifestyles are the holy grail (in fact, I think they're way overrated), but this left me shaking my head. Is it really just a rightwing talking point or is there something more to this?
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Doom and gloom gets it wrong again
Sure looks that way from the available evidence. It's comforting that, yet again, the doom and gloom crowd gets it wrong. Now, onto dealing with carbon emissions ...
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The latest from the makers of The Meatrix
The latest from Free Range Studios, makers of The Meatrix:
The DaVersity Code. Check it.
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U.S. works with Brazil to spread sugar cane ethanol
The United States' increasing reliance on corn ethanol is one of the most convoluted and wasteful government endeavors in the world. First we massively subsidize corn, then we massively subsidize ethanol production, then we massively tax imports of foreign ethanol from sugar. Result: little reduction in CO2 emissions, massive over-production of corn that destroys land and sea, anger from developing countries about our hypocrisy, and billions of dollars thrown down a rat hole.
