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Destined to Fail: False Assumptions on Climate, Trade, and Society Cripple U.S. Security Strategy

Destined to Fail: False Assumptions on Climate, Trade, and Society Cripple U.S. Security Strategy
15 min read

A national security strategy is supposed to describe the world as it is and explain how a country intends to navigate the constraints and opportunities in front of it. It is meant to be a map, not a message, and certainly not a mirror held up to a single political … [continued]

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Your Single-Use Plastic Bottles Are Killing Endangered Sea Turtles

Your Single-Use Plastic Bottles Are Killing Endangered Sea Turtles
7 min read

Those plastic bottles that are so readily available at convenience stores, groceries, conferences, and sports venues are a real problem: they kill marine creatures. A recent study published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences concludes that plastic ingestion has been documented in nearly 1,300 marine species, including every … [continued]

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Largest Utah Coal Plant Goes Quiet as Los Angeles Goes Coal-Free

Largest Utah Coal Plant Goes Quiet as Los Angeles Goes Coal-Free
3 min read

Utah’s largest coal-fired power plant — the Intermountain Power Project (IPP), located in the Great Basin region of western Utah and primarily serving southern California — is no longer operating, after the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power quietly pulled the plug just before Thanksgiving. The shutdown happened with … [continued]

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Seabed Mining Meets Reality: What the Technoeconomic Evidence Shows

Seabed Mining Meets Reality: What the Technoeconomic Evidence Shows
39 min read

I was pleased to be asked to complete the technoeconomic assessment of seabed mining by the National Ocean Protection Coalition and to join the webinar discussing its results. It is not often that I have the opportunity to bring together decades of work in complex systems analysis, technology readiness, and … [continued]

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