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Gambling on climate change

Jan Erik Lane (Freiburg): The Global Contradiction of the 21rst Century. Robert O. Keohane (Princeton): The Global Politics of Climate Change: Challenge for Political Science. Alvin K Leong (Pace): Statehood Implications for Island Nations Endangered by Climate Change. Rosemary Lyster (Sydney): Protecting the Human Rights of Climate Displaced Persons: The Promise and Limits of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change. Carmen G. Gonzalez (Seattle): Environmental Justice, Human Rights, and the Global South. Meinhard Doelle (Dalhousie): Loss and Damage in the UN Climate Regime: Prospects for Paris. Federica Pitrone (Maastricht): Would Environmental Taxes by Any Other Name Smell Sweet? Fracking is killing coal — so why do so many environmentalists hate it? Lucas Bento (NYU): The “Piratisation” of Environmental Activism. Brian Beutler on how Obama mentor Laurence Tribe is pitting Obamacare supporters against environmentalists. What do conservative policy intellectuals think about climate change? Ben Adler wonders. Robert R.M. Verchick (Loyola): Culture, Cognition, and Climate. Bethany Albertson and Joshua Busby on persuading Americans to act on climate change. John Quiggin on gambling on climate change. The Drought Fighter: Could a controversial farmer in California have found the most effective way to grow food in a warming world? Richard Eckard on how vegetarianism isn't the solution to climate change: It's the Western lifestyle — not the Western diet — that's doing ecological damage.