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will explain how Americans in some of the most populated regions of the country have put themselves at particular risk, exposing a pattern of shortsighted policies that encouraged people to settle in vulnerable parts of the continent. It will show how decades of economic policies have favored some Americans over others, polarizing the country furth

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Alternatively, the policy problem could be phrased as “How much compensation should we pay our children for worsening their climate?”

couple of decades ago, few people imagined that the most consequential near-term impacts of climate change on large parts of both the United States and Canada would be the warming-driven population explosion of a tiny pest, the tree-destroying bark beetle. Only through a comprehensive and ongoing

exacerbate the inequitable distribution of suffering. There is no question that the climate is going to change, and bring with it a lot of suffering. The question is how we navigate it.

Given the escalating severity of the destabilization of our climate, the twenty-first century will see a cascading spiral of crises: melting ice caps, unstoppable coastal flooding, record-breaking hurricanes and severe weather events, possible interruption of the oceanic conveyor belt, devastating forest fires and longer fire seasons, severe drough

slow-motion crises risk evoking three dynamics that ESS graduates are poorly prepared for. One is what environmental analysts Michael Shellenberger and Ted Nordhaus call “insecure affluence”: the growing sense among a large slice of Americans that their economic position in life is unstable at best and more likely at imminent risk.

These actions reflect my concern about how the treatment of certain Morton Thiokol employees, particularly Mr. McDonald and Mr. Boisjoly, will adversely affect the future of the Space Shuttle program. Any failure to maintain an atmosphere of support for objective scientific inquiry and honest criticism will decrease safety at a time when improved s