On July 17, Al Gore challenged our nation to produce " 100 percent of our electricity from renewable energy and truly carbon-free sources within 10 years ". Ron Bailey , science correspondent of Reason online , has examined whether Gore's proposal is at all practically achievable. Bailey...
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TokyoTom
on Wed, Jul 30 2008
Filed under: rent-seeking, republicans, gore, war, AGW, Ron Bailey, carbon pricing, climate change, nuclear
Jared Diamond has an interesting essay at the current issue of New Yorker, " Vengeance Is Ours ", that is worth considering. In the essay, Diamond not only describes the moral and political economy of cycles of personal and inter-tribal vengeance in one of the relatively stateless area of the...
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TokyoTom
on Wed, Apr 30 2008
Filed under: state, rent-seeking, war, cognition, vengeance, hostility, manipulation, justice, Jared Diamond