Dying of Consumption While Guzzling Snake Oil: a Realist’s Perspective on the Environmental Crisis

Dying of Consumption While Guzzling Snake Oil: a Realist’s Perspective on the Environmental Crisis

Preservation of our environment remains well toward the bottom of our priorities. Personally and collectively, in our daily lives and in the media, we fixate on career, financial accumulation, economic growth, political performance, consumerism, entertainment, social media, and external validation. None of these aspects of our lives mean anything without a livable planet full of…

China’s Environmental Challenges: Under the Dome with No Way Out?

China’s Environmental Challenges: Under the Dome with No Way Out?

Introduction Four decades of rapid economic growth in China has come at a huge price to the environment, from smog-ridden skies to contaminated rivers, toxic soils and “cancer villages”. These increasingly intolerable costs have emerged as a major source of social unrest in recent years. Premier Li Keqiang acknowledged this in his opening address to…