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Lipow: Continuum: Right-Wing Propaganda Despite Claims Of Moral Complexity
Blog Post, March, 05 2013
Gar Lipow
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"Continuum", the Canadian Science Fiction series now featured on the US SyFy channel escalates the incorporation of right-wing tropes into popular entertainment.
Lipow: Continuum: Right-Wing Propaganda Despite Claims Of Moral Complexity
Znet Article, March, 05 2013
Gar Lipow
Lipow's ZSpace page
The 2012 Canadian science fiction series Continuum, now airing on the SyFy channel, is a warning sign
Lipow: A Personal Meditation on Technology, Sustainabity, and Social Context
Znet Article, May, 18 2011
Gar Lipow
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The fact that people go without healthcare is a matter of political will, not economic ability
Lipow: Re: Reducing CO2 Emissions
Znet Article, July, 18 2009
Gar Lipow
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We can reduce emissions by 95% or more in twenty years without shrinking GDP, though it might be desirable to do so. Even if we needed to reduce emisssions by 80% or more in ten years we could do it at a very small cost. We can deploy wind and sol...
Lipow: When money talks, it sometimes lies.
Znet Article, July, 15 2009
Gar Lipow
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Markets in everything creep not just into our lives, but into our thoughts. Most environmentalists worried about the climate crisis focus on winning a cap-and-trade system or at best a carbon tax. They prioritize pricing greenhouse gas emissions....
Lipow: Growing a Better World
Znet Article, June, 22 2009
Gar Lipow
Lipow's ZSpace page
"Every society clings to a myth by which it lives. Ours is the myth of economic growth." So begins "Prosperity Without Growth"[1], the report of the UK government's Sustainable Development Commission. Questioning growth has been the obsessive foc...
Lipow: Cooling a Fevered Planet
Zmag Article, July, 01 2008
Gar Lipow
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Nobody, except for a small lunatic fringe, still disputes that human-caused climate chaos endangers all of us. Further, most serious scientific and technical groups who have looked at the question have concluded that we have the technological capa...
