"Eighty by 50" has been a recent refrain in secular environmental circles -- we need an 80 percent reduction in emissions, by 2050, in order to stave off the worst of the scientifically-predicted devastation caused by our changing the climate. To get there requires bold action, now. Some have spoken...
Posted August 31, 2011 | 08/31/11 05:40 PM ET
As we parted ways in the late 1980s, my high school friends thought to set up a betting pool -- when would Fred first get arrested in some protest? To everyone's surprise, it took until a decade ago, at the dawn of the Bush Administration's tragic inaction on climate change...
Posted November 19, 2010 | 11/19/10 07:06 PM ET
With a tradition thousands of years old, Judaism informs us on taking the long view -- the Divine view, as it were -- since God is concerned even to the thousandth generation in the future (Ex 34:7). So with environmental policy, we consider not only our own immediate interests, but...
3 Comments | Posted February 7, 2012 | 02/07/12 02:50 PM ET