Richard L. Revesz and Matthew Shahabian (NYU): Climate Change and Future Generations. Would you get on a plane with a 10% chance of crashing? Penny Sackett doubts many would — yet on the key issues of climate change, the levels of certainty are closer to 90%. An interview with James Rodger Fleming on the history of climate change. Our use of Earth’s resources is growing even faster — where are population and consumption headed, and where do they need to be to sustain the systems that sustain us? A review of A Vast Machine: Computer Models, Climate Data, and the Politics of Global Warming by Paul N. Edwards. Do environmentalists and governments hold back sustainable lifestyles? An interview with Heather Rogers, author of Green Gone Wrong: How Our Economy is Undermining the Environmental Revolution. Edward B. Barbier on his book A Global Green New Deal: Rethinking the Economic Recovery. The Holocene has been replaced by Anthropocene: A series of maps show how mankind remade nature. We have learned so much about our home planet in the three decades since James Lovelock wrote Gaia: A New Look at Life on Earth; has the book stood the test of time? A review of The Ecological Thought by Timothy Morton. The answers to “How much should people sacrifice today for the benefit of those living several decades from now?” vary widely; people’s distaste for uncertainty — ambiguity aversion — favours immediate, rapid cuts in greenhouse gas emissions. With population and per-capita consumption both on the rise, it's hard to believe humanity's impact on the Earth is sustainable — but what would happen if we ate less meat, or gave women better education and more power? A review of Climatopolis: How Our Cities Will Thrive in the Hotter Future by Matthew Kahn.
