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What can be done about global warming

A new issue of OnEarth is out. From Green Left Weekly, an article on climate debt and why we’re not all in this together. The philosophy of saving the world: Top scientists, authors, and activists debate what can be done about global warming. Philosophy on the edge: The current climate crisis demands that we make a novel conceptual leap and begin thinking about human equality in terms of energy and resource consumption. More on geoengineering, "a bad idea whose time has come" (and more). A review of Treading Softly: Paths to Ecological Order by Thomas Princen. Timothy Morton on his book The Ecological Thought. The Buzz: What bees tell us about global climate change. A review of Requiem for a Species: Why We Resist the Truth about Climate Change by Clive Hamilton. A plague of people: The resources we spend trying to save endangered species would be better spent trying to limit human population growth, argues Roger Short. A look at why population control is the key to saving the planet. From The American Scholar, Robert B. Laughlin on What the Earth Knows: Understanding the concept of geologic time and some basic science can give a new perspective on climate change and the energy future. How ideological fervor and scientific dishonesty raised the "skeptics" from the dead: A review of Merchants of Doubt by Naomi Oreskes and Erik Conway and The Climate War by Eric Pooley. Do celebrities help or hinder environmental causes? A review of Living Through the End of Nature: The Future of American Environmentalism by Paul Wapner. A review of Green Gone Wrong: How Our Economy Is Undermining the Environmental Revolution by Heather Rogers. An interview with Gregory Unruh on the gospel of responsible, green management. More on Stewart Brand’s Whole Earth Discipline.