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Dust Bowl lesson: We can heal ecological disaster
Posted by Christian Science Monitor: Laurent Belsie on November 19th, 2012
Christian Science Monitor: On the face of it, the two disasters have little in common. One is wet; the other is dry. They're eight decades apart. The superstorm knocked out power for weeks; the Dust Bowl knocked out livelihoods over a decade and caused massive migrations.
The troubling link is that the Dust Bowl's dryness was made worse by human practices and Sandy's flooding was made worse by rising oceans, probably linked to human-induced climate change.
One can take that two ways. Pessimists can say it's a bad omen...
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Unconventional energy jobs: 1.7 million and counting
Posted by Christian Science Monitor: Laurent Belsie on October 23rd, 2012
Christian Science Monitor: "Unconventional" oil and natural gas drilling supports 1.7 million jobs, according to a new report. By 2020, it will support another 1.3 million new positions. The new unconventional extraction methods – called "fracking" – are creating so much energy so fast that by 2015 the United States will produce more oil from unconventional than conventional means, according to the new report from IHS Global Insight, an economic forecasting firm based in Lexington, Mass. The jobs boom isn't evenly distributed....