| Nov 29, 2010 | Environment / Health|RoundupIn this week’s OtherWords editorial package, Miriam Pemberton calls for more parity in spending on climate and military security and Diana Bronson warns that “geoengineering” fixes for the world’s climate problems could do far more harm than...
| | Environment / HealthThink you’ve heard enough about climate change? Chances are you haven’t heard anything about the dangerous and costly sci-fi climate fixes known as geoengineering. Geo-what? Geoengineering is a set of speculative, massive-scale technologies that would have...
| | Environment / HealthIt was just a lone sentence tacked on to the very end of a long New York Times article. The story focused on a recent report from President Obama’s bipartisan commission on reducing the national debt. “Panel Seeks Cuts in Social Security and Higher...
| | Cartoon|Environment / Health
| Nov 15, 2010 | Environment / HealthAs pundits and politicians argue about what the GOP midterm election sweep means, there are growing and disturbing signs that America increasingly is moving (and voting) to retreat from our nation’s commitment to scientific research and knowledge. We’re “dumbing...
| | Environment / HealthHere in my home state of Texas, we’re suffering from withdrawal pains. This isn’t caused by our addiction to alcohol or drugs–but to plain water. And to make our pain worse, it’s not the people of Texas who are hooked on a destructive water...
