Articles by John McGrath
John McGrath is an intinerant student and sometimes reporter currently living in Toronto, Canada. He mainly writes about Canadian and International Politics from an energy and climate perspective
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Time for greens to get over their fear of big government
In a recent post, Ron Steenblik wrote:
Indeed, I am generally a skeptic of heavy-handed market manipulation.
A perfectly reasonable position for environmentalists in general to take, especially after the history of Big Oil, Big Coal, Big Corn, etc. using their power with the state.
Not to dump on Ron -- who only provided the most recent example of this general skepticism -- but greens in general need to get over their suspicion of the state; in particular, they need to move beyond the small-government, market-focused ideas deeded to us by some of our brightest lights (the Amory Lovinses of the world.)
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Coal and cars, two great tastes that … gack!
...you might want to hurt yourself:
"A clean car that runs on coal!"
A more appropriate headline:
"A car on coal. Run!"
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Jim Baker eyes the oil in Iraq
With the disaster unfolding in Iraq, you'd think the U.S. government might take its eyes off the oil for a moment. There are some 27 million Iraqis who might demand a higher place in our priorities.
Apparently not. It turns out Jim Baker's ISG report is chock full of recommendations about what to do with Iraq's oil. Antonia Juhasz in the L.A. Times gives us the details. Let's just say, if you thought this war had absolutely nothing to do with oil, you need to reexamine your conclusions.
