Every culture and language in the world has maxims to the effect, “A stitch in time saves nine” or “An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure”. Treating the effects is the nine and the pound. Dealing with the cause is the stitch and the ounce.
We are…
The Climate Crisis team on Quora asked me to assess which industries are ahead and behind in terms of dealing with climate solutions. …
Alberta in Canada is best known as the home of the oil sands, a very large reserve of hydrocarbons which must remain almost entirely in the ground in order for global warming to be addressed. This week, there is good news for the climate, but bad news for Alberta. …
The Climate Action Tracker is one of the most viewed and cited assessment tools for how countries are doing on climate action. It’s solidly thought out, sophisticated, and communicative.
But I and others have often scratched our heads at the apparent results. Sometimes they agreed with the clear action we…
The Syrian Refugee Crisis was climate migration writ small. Based on the literature, I attribute about 10% of the causation of the Syrian Civil War to climate change. It exacerbated the regional drought that made both grazing and small-hold agriculture economically challenging, leading to large numbers of young men migrating…
Stephen Jay Gould was — he passed from this mortal coil in 2002 — a paleontologist and an evolutionary biologist. As such, his work was and is immediately rejected by Creationists and the like. …
It’s definitely not climate friendly
Recently, Republicans received some favorable climate-related coverage. Utah’s 3rd District Congressman John Curtis announced the formation of a Conservative Climate Caucus. It came with a roster of roughly 60 Congresspeople, none of them particularly well known names. While they are light on content, they had…
In the past two years I’ve read many deep and interesting books, from Kahneman’s Noise to Malhotra’s Negotiation Genius to Wohlleben’s The Hidden Life of Trees. But as a strategist, a pair of books stand out as I think about the world and its trajectory.
The only way to de-radicalize anyone is with a lot of concerted effort after a bunch of conditions for success are met.
Preconditions:
Toyota is a fascinating and incredibly successful company. From its beginnings in 1933 through its post-WWII growth through the OPEC Oil Crisis of 1972 which saw small Japanese cars suddenly hot in the USA through its pledge, successfully accomplished, to become the world’s largest car company, it’s fought challenging circumstances…
