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No one should miss Alex Shoumatoff’s piece on the Arctic Oil Rush
In addition to a wealth of information about the Russian expedition and the attitudes of interested nations towards UNCLOS and other treaties (”(Basically, the U.S. doesn’t ratify anything that cramps its style. It has still not ratified the Kyoto Protocol, which Russia has, […]

April 22, 2008
We sympathize with Andrea’s argument, however must point out that we also believe that William Marsden’s excellent “Stupid to the last drop” bears on business and public policy, and we are delighted by the news that “[the] Critic of oilsands wins business book award — Montreal journalist William Marsden wins $20,000 prize”
The first […]

Rising temperatures will damage even strong economies and pose a global threat to security, top officials say.
Extreme climate conditions provoked by global warming could lead to “unprecedented” international security threats, with “serious security risks” even if climate change is contained within the European Union’s target of a temperature rise of 2°C above pre-industrial levels, […]

There is now widespread scientific consensus that human-produced carbon emissions are contributing to global climate change. It may not be the only cause, and global feedback mechanisms (like the release of huge of the greenhouse gas methane from the melting permafrost) could be too far advanced to stop, but the political reality is that there […]

Fibs, Frauds and Whoppers

How the debate over global warming ever became an angry partisan affair, I will never know. Somehow it has become a hard right talking point that global warming is […]

February 22
James Heffernan, Huffington Post
You don’t give up easily, do you?
Earlier this week, just before the primaries in Wisconsin and Washington, you charged Barack Obama with plagiarizing a passage from a speech given by Deval Patrick, the Governor of Massachusetts. Though your charge fizzled (Obama won both of those primaries), you tried it again […]

Teaches European Integrations and Economy of Transition in the Faculty of Economics, Finance and Administration of The University of Novi Sad’s Centre for Advanced European Studies and Research (CAESAR)
See Misha Story on Wednesday-Night.com and Misha page
October 1997
I come from the former Yugoslavia. I was not a Serb, or a Croat or a Muslim. […]

January 18, 2008
Cleo Paskal
No country is ready for natural disasters. In fact, some of the world’s richest nations are the worst prepared. Cleo Paskal presents a guide to mitigating the huge human and security cost of our changing climate.
Environmental change is a sustained and pervasive attack on the status quo. Nothing can be taken for […]

16 January 2008
We have a special treat for all those interested in a triple-e topic: ethics, the environment and economics, which may at first glance appear to be an odd troika.
This package comes in the form of our friend and Wednesday-Nighter, Professor Peter G. Brown, author of THE COMMONWEALTH OF LIFE Economics For a […]

Economics for a Flourishing Earth
1. Taking Darwin Seriously. Our ethical systems are largely a-scientific; they took on much of their shape before the scientific revolutions of the last 500 years. Though science does not and should not determine our ethical beliefs, neither should those beliefs be uninformed by science. One consequence […]