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Why the environmental movement is not winning

Karl S. Coplan (Pace): Climate Change, Political Truth, and the Marketplace of Ideas. From the inaugural issue of Wayfarer, when your whole island is sinking, what do you do? The village of Kivalina, Alaska, sits on the tip of a six- to eight-mile-long barrier island some 80 to 120 miles above the Arctic Circle — and its Inupiat population is already feeling the effects of climate change. An interview with Stephen Gardiner, author of A Perfect Moral Storm: The Ethical Tragedy of Climate Change. Why climate change will make you love Big Government: Christian Parenti on a secret history of free enterprise and the government that made it possible. Bill Gates backs climate scientists lobbying for large-scale geoengineering. From Momentum, what would it take to shape a planet on which people, other living things and the systems that support us can sustainably co-exist? Why the environmental movement is not winning: A new report places the blame on misguided strategies of environmental funders. Should global-warming activists lie to defend their cause? William D. Nordhaus on why the global warming skeptics are wrong.