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The fight to save the planet

Lieske Voget-Kleschin and Christian Baatz (Kiel): Individual Duties Regarding Global Environmental Problems: The Example of Climate Change. Jesse Reynolds (Tilburg): A Critical Examination of the Climate Engineering Moral Hazard and Risk Compensation Concern. Richard Ottinger, Pianpian Wang, and Kristen M. Motel (Pace): Options for Adaption to Climate Change. J. Paul Kelleher (Wisconsin): Is There a Sacrifice-Free Solution to Climate Change? From Vox, is there a free-market solution to global warming? Brad Plumer wonders. Ben Glasson (Melbourne): Antagonism, Co-optation, Fragmentation: Unravelling the Triple Bind of Green Political Struggle. Is green the new red? Zachary Sunderman on climate change and the new synthesis. A study finds green groups are relatively oblivious to economics. Environmentalism is dead: Kate Galbraith on how America abandoned its role as leader of the fight to save the planet — and killed a movement. The world has waited for the US and China to take action on climate change — they just did. China tries to save Earth; Republicans furious. Even China's Communist Party accepts that climate change is real — Republicans still don't. Is Republican climate-science denialism a mental block? Psychologists are learning how to convince conservatives to take climate change seriously. Robert R. M. Verchick (Loyola): Climate, Cognition, and Culture. National Post editor Jonathan Kay explains why many of his colleagues are climate change deniers. Lawyer Lauren Kurtz’s new job is defending climate scientists from political attacks. Striving for a climate change: To get beyond debates over science, Dan Kahan seeks their roots. If he were alive today Alfred Nobel would have wanted an environment prize. Climate change: David F. Hendry on lessons for our future from the distant past.