A COSMOPOLITAN LAWYER: JUST SOME READINGS I HAVE ENJOYED LATELY

First, this blog replaces my previous blog, thecosmoplitanlawyerblogspot.com . Second, unlike that earlier blog, the present one is primarily meant as a record of my readings. It is not meant to suggest that others will be or should be interested in what I read. And third, in a sense, it is a public diary of one who is an alien in his own American culture. A person who feels at home just about anywhere, except in his birthplace . . . America.

Thursday, November 14, 2013

BURYING ONE'S HEAD IN THE SAND REGARDING CLIMATE CHANGE

Kerry Emanuel, What We Know About Climate Change, 2d. ed. ( Boston Review Book) (Cambridge, Massachusetts, & London, England: MIT Press, 2013) (But even while science has reached a strong consensus that climate is indeed changing, that the change is caused mostly by us, and that it poses important risks, public recognition of and concern about these risks has diminished, particularly in the United States." Id. at ix-x. "There are other obstacles to taking a sensible approach to the climate problem. We have precious few representatives in Congress with a background or interest in science, and some of the others display an active contempt for the subject. As long as we continue to elect scientific illiterates such as James Inhofe, who believes global warming to be a hoax, we will be discouraged from engaging in intelligent debate at the policy level." Id. at 92-93.).