From Portal, a special issue on Global Climate Change Policy: Post-Copenhagen Discord. J. B. Ruhl (Vanderbilt): What Should We Do About the Climate Change Winners? Rosemary Lyster (Sydney): Towards a Global Justice Vision for Climate Law in a Time of "Unreason". Malthus was wrong — we're not facing worldwide famine, but the 20-year silence on population growth is calamitous for the environment and poverty. Remarks on utopia in the age of climate change: Kim Stanley Robinson gives an account of his utopian novels. Cold, hard economics: Why changing your old lightbulbs and toting your eco-friendly canvas shopping bag around won't save the planet. An interview with Fred Magdoff and John Bellamy Foster, authors of What Every Environmentalist Needs to Know about Capitalism. An interview with Christian Parenti, author of Tropic of Chaos: Climate Change and the New Geography of Violence. Is a centralized climate solution still possible? David Roberts talks to Andy Revkin. Brad Plumer on how climate scientists grapple with uncertainty (though not the kind you think). Are autocracies better at tackling climate change? Leo Horn wants to know. Is climate scepticism a largely Anglo-Saxon phenomenon? To conservatives, climate change is Trojan horse to abolish capitalism. David Roberts on the brutal logic of climate change (and more). It’s not easy being green: Why is it that even when we know the right thing to do, we don’t do it? Global warming and fossil-fuel dependency are often viewed as nearly insurmountable problems, but in the world of "green chemistry", scientists are looking for ways to nibble away at them, one step at a time. James Powell on his book The Inquisition of Climate Science. Brad Plumer on five things to know about the Durban climate agreement (and more and more).
