Tag: risk management
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How to Talk About Climate Change So People Will Listen
The Atlantic: How to Talk About Climate Change So People Will Listen Environmentalists warn us that apocalypse awaits. Economists tell us that minimal fixes will get us through. Here's how we can move beyond the impasse. This is an exceptionally good piece by Charles Mann on how we think and talk about climate change. It…
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The Alternative to Climate Alarmists & Deniers
Daily Tech: Climate Alarmists & Deniers: Please, Just Shut Up Researchers at George Mason University and Yale University bring the grave news that "belief in global warming" is at a "six year low". I. Do You Believe? The study [PDF] comes courtesy of principle investigator Professor Anthony Leiserowitz, an environmental scientist at Yale. Other principle investigators include…
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Living Simply in Abundance (13)
The Bible's recurring economic theme is that God owns all that exists. We were created to be stewards (corporately and individually) of God's resources, and God intends for stewards to live in community-wide abundance. Human rebellion entered the equation, and that intention has been terribly marred. Part of the Good News of the coming shalom…
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New Climate for Science (Part 1)
The climate change topic has been "heating up" again in the press, so it seems to be a good time to offer a few thoughts I have had regarding science and public policy. Part of what got me thinking about this a few weeks ago was reading Anthony Giddens' exceptional little book Runaway World: How…