Climate Change Enlightenment Was Fun While It Lasted. But Now It’s Dead
The collapse of the talks at Copenhagen took away all momentum for change and the lobbyists are back in control. So what next? [...more]
The collapse of the talks at Copenhagen took away all momentum for change and the lobbyists are back in control. So what next? [...more]
In writing Diet for a Small Planet, I learned one simple truth: Hunger is not caused by a scarcity of food but a scarcity of democracy. But that realization was only the beginning, for then I had to ask: What does a democracy look like that enables citizens to have a real voice in securing life’s essentials? Does it exist anywhere? Is it possible or a pipe dream? With hunger on the rise here in the United States—one in 10 of us is now turning to food stamps—these questions take on new urgency. [...more]