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Shellenberger: Of course! Both of us are born of the traditional environmental movement. Ted and I gave the last decade of our lives working as consultants to most of the big environmental organizations and many medium and smaller ones as well. We’re not like Bjorn Lomborg or whatever. Still, Apollo isn’t a panacea, and we took pains to make that point in “Death of Environmentalism.” Apollo was a good start. Now the movement as a whole needs to transcend the moral and intellectual framework that defines modern environmentalism.
Can you give another example of the kind of device or initiative that would move the environmental movement beyond its current framework?
Nordhaus: What if we introduced a constitutional amendment that said that no state shall pay more in taxes to the federal government than it receives in expenditures from the federal government? What does that have to do with global warming? Well, it would tackle the subsidies dilemma that we’ve been trying to address for years: the federal highway subsidies, the energy subsidies, the coal and oil subsidies. New York and California, for instance, pay vastly more in federal taxes than they receive in federal expenditures and places like Alaska, Alabama, a whole raft of mostly rural and particularly Western and Southern states receive vastly more in federal expenditures than they pay in federal taxes. So this constitutional-amendment approach would take it out of an environmental context and create a political debate that problematizes the politics of subsidies. It recontextualizes the subsidy debate around fairness.
Shellenberger: You could poke a hundred holes in it, but it shows that if you get out of your single-issue mindset, if you shake the kind of technical policy approach to this stuff, you can start coming up with creative solutions and campaigns that are both more interesting and, potentially, more powerful politically.
I see your point. Still it doesn’t discount the fact that enviros are winning important victories at local levels, waging lawsuits over factory farming and endangered species and pollution that have very real meaning at the grassroots, if not the national, level.
Nordhaus: Consider this: Most of those local lawsuits are litigating the Endangered Species Act or the National Environmental Policy Act. Meanwhile, under the new Republican-dominated Congress, it’s not inconceivable that we’re going to lose the ESA and NEPA. So while we may win a few more local lawsuits, the entire regulatory framework could get repealed.
Shellenberger: Our argument is that you could win all your little lawsuits, we could pass all the legislation we have on the table locally and nationally, but we would be no closer to achieving our larger objectives. Think about how devastating of a critique that is: If we got everything we wanted right now, we would still be hurtling toward global-warming crisis. We would still be destroying the Amazon, the lungs of the planet. Environmentalists offer no inspiring vision for the world or for the country that speaks in any way to the magnitude of the crisis or to the potential of the American people to really make this transformation.
So you’re not necessarily opposed to policy proposals like tighter Corporate Average Fuel Economy standards and McCain-Lieberman, but you believe they are only baby steps?
Shellenberger: If we could pass McCain-Lieberman tomorrow, should we pass McCain-Lieberman tomorrow? Of course, why not? Do I think that McCain-Lieberman and CAFE on their own are sufficient? No. Would I support passing CAFE if, in the process of doing so, we poisoned the ground for building the alliance with labor and business we desperately need to substantially reduce carbon emissions in the United States? No.
How old are you guys?
Nordhaus: Michael’s 33, I’m 39.
Do you consider yourselves next-gen environmentalists?
Nordhaus: No. There are 22-year-olds who think like Carl Pope and there are 60-year-olds who think like we do. We were criticizing a set of institutions and an intellectual framework, not a generation.
Shellenberger: I consider myself a progressive, not an environmentalist. I’m done with “ists” and “isms” generally. I thought the most bizarre part of Carl’s response to our paper was the accusation of patricide. Both of our parents have been involved in environmental policy. Ted’s dad wrote significant sections of the Clean Air Act and CAFE. We love our parents and we love what they’ve done. In order to honor their legacy, we have to update it. Environmentalism is outmoded. Death is a part of the process of life. The idea that somehow the environmental movement is, or should be, immortal goes against everything that it claims to believe.
Are you saying that environmentalism has become a tradition, not a movement?
Nordhaus: Exactly. Movement implies going forward and making progress, tradition implies holding on to the past. After the 2004 [election] defeat there was no admission by environmental leaders that we got our asses handed to us on a platter and that we must rethink everything. Instead what we heard from environmental leaders was that they succeeded in the states and districts they targeted. In his response to our paper, Carl Pope agreed that we’re facing a crisis and that enviros are politically weaker than they were 15 years ago, but then he went on to propose the same damn policies and politics that enviros have been pushing for 30 years.
So I take it you didn’t find Pope’s response to your paper convincing?
Shellenberger: We were baffled by it. Of all environmental leaders, we thought Carl would embrace this. He’s the guy that reaches out the most to labor unions, he’s the guy that fights anti-immigrant forces. He gave us the most extraordinary interview [when we were conducting research for the paper]. He, more than any other environmental leader, inspired the thesis of this paper.
Nordhaus: Carl Pope is the first and, thus far, only major person in the environmental movement to have publicly engaged this discourse at all and for that, if nothing else, we commend him. We emailed all these guys after the article came out and asked if they’d be willing to have a dialogue and the silence has been deafening.
Shellenberger: Yeah, it’s like, God, please disagree with us. We would be honored.
Would you say that for the sake of creating debate and making your argument, you made exaggerations and generalizations?
Shellenberger: No way. I didn’t say anything in there that I regret. Not a single sentence. And we didn’t say anything in there that was designed to provoke. Our intention was not to make people angry, it was to start a debate.
Why, then, did you address your complaints directly to funders rather than to the leaders themselves? That seems inherently provocative.
Shellenberger: There is no place for public debate in the environmental movement. Even librarians have much fiercer public debates and dialogues than the environmental community. Or look at the AIDS movement, where public-health organizations and government agencies have fantastic debates every year. They have peer-reviewed journals and panel discussions at international conferences. Look at the intense debates over how to stem the flow of HIV/AIDS in Africa. The environmental movement needs a national or international forum to debate strategy.
Nordhaus: We definitely wrote this to be provocative and get their attention. But [the Environmental Grantmakers Association meeting] was the only conference, the only place to really talk to the leaders of the movement. Where else should we have gone? There’s no place to go.
What do you say to criticisms that in researching your paper you only interviewed the movement’s technicians and not other leaders, like Wendell Berry?
Nordhaus: We interviewed the people in the environmental movement who are deciding how to spend tens of millions of dollars annually. Hundreds of millions of dollars in the last decade have been spent to address global warming. I’m sorry, Wendell Berry isn’t the person deciding how the enviro movement is going to construct its campaigns to address global warming. The people we talked to are. They are deciding where this movement is going, where the resources are going. They need to rethink their politics to make it morally compelling. They need to start talking about a future people want to be a part of.
Some detractors are saying your paper is nihilistic — that it offers only criticisms and no real proposals for a rehabilitation plan.
Nordhaus: We know, we’ve said repeatedly, that our ideas are partially baked and that we need some help in reconstructing a viable political movement. This is not something that we can do in a 30-page pamphlet. We resisted suggestions from early reviewers of the paper to provide specific prescriptions because we wanted to begin a discussion and dialogue, not suggest that we had all the answers.
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LANCASTER COUNTY, Pa.– One of last year’s Lancaster Barnstormers is heading to affiliated ball.
Nate Coronado, 25, will sign with the New York Yankees and report to the club’s spring training camp in Tampa, FL before awaiting an assignment to one of the team’s affiliates.
The infielder joined the Barnstormers following the 2017 All-Star Break and batted .333 in 60 games with six homers and 38 runs batted in. A Philadelphia resident, Coronado hit safely in 19 of his first 22 starts with Lancaster and also ended the season on a six-game hitting streak.
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Assistant Chief Ernest Sanchez said the driver was traveling at a high speed on Interstate 880 in Hayward when he slammed into the back of a CHP SUV parked on the right shoulder. The crash occurred late Sunday and shut down the southbound lanes of the highway for hours.
The officer who died was in the passenger seat. Sanchez identified him as 33-year-old Andrew Camilleri, a married father of three children. A second officer in the vehicle was treated at a hospital and released.
The CHP declined to release the name of the driver who hit the patrol car.
With an estimated $1.3 trillion in student loans outstanding, it’s safe to say student loan debt is a reality for millions of Americans. While this figure may sound daunting, experts say that greater financial literacy can help students and graduates better understand their loans and pay them back.
• Know who you owe and how much. Understand if your loan is from the federal government—about 93 percent of all loans are— or a private lender like Sallie Mae. If you are unsure, call your lender or check your credit report. Be responsible. Know your monthly payment amounts and due dates.
• Separate wants from needs. Managing your money means managing your lifestyle. Prioritize payments you must make every month, and make sure your student loan is one of them.
• Exceed your own expectations. Pay more than the minimum amount due each month. If you get a raise or tax refund, use part or all of it to increase your monthly loan payment. The faster you pay off your loan, the less you’ll spend in the long run.
• Confront reality. If you run into trouble, don’t hide from it, don’t be embarrassed by it, and don’t give up. Stay positive, focused, and look for solutions. Call your lender or touch base with your cosigner, if you have one.
• Get excited about your future! Be passionate about managing your money wisely and effectively. You can’t make your student loans disappear magically overnight, but you can make a plan for paying them back.
For more information, visit SallieMae.com, a one-stop resource that includes monthly budget worksheets, loan repayment calculators, and information about payment options — including the company’s Graduated Repayment Period, which allows graduates in good standing to make 12 months of interest-only payments before transitioning into full principal and interest payments.
New tech tools also are making managing loans easier than ever. For example, Sallie Mae recently unveiled a new mobile app — available for Apple and Android — to help customers manage their accounts, access loan information, and make payments from smartphones.
Don’t let the prospect of paying back student loans overwhelm you. Financial literacy is a game changer and can position you to move up in the workforce on good financial footing.
Three family members were found shot to death in their home on Forest Drive in Madison County Saturday.
Sheriff Erik Weaver of the Madison County Sheriff's office explained, "This morning at approximately 9:25 a.m., the Madison County Sheriff's Office received a call of an unresponsive male lying in the yard in the area of 1300 Forest Drive here in Madison County."
Sheriff Weaver added "The Madison County Sheriff's Office in cooperation with the Virginia State Police has started what will probably be an extensive investigation."
At this time, no names have been released. Police say it was not a murder suicide and at this point, no arrests have been made. Units plan to be on the scene for most of the night and well into Sunday.
State police dispatchers say a statewide search is on for a 23-year-old male in connection with the shooting. He is believed to be driving a low profile 2004 copper color Chevy Colorado extended cab pick-up truck with a Diamond toolbox on the back. The driver's license plate number is Virginia YFM4581. If you have any information, call the Madison County Sheriff's office at (540) 948-5161.
Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos has acknowledged scrutiny as a fact of life, saying last year that "all large institutions of any kind whether they be government agencies, nonprofits, universities, and certainly including big corporations, deserve to be inspected and scrutinized."
The big picture: Democrats are gravitating toward the argument that big corporations have benefited from their innovations while working people have paid a high price.
Beyond Sanders, Amazon’s critics include many Democrats planning or contemplating 2020 presidential runs.
“I’ve been very critical of them, but when these companies do take constructive steps, we have to give them credit or there’s no incentive for them to do those things,” said Khanna.
The other side: Democrats said they appreciated Amazon’s innovations even as they worried that the wealth the firm has created wasn’t being distributed fairly.
“We’re not trying to destroy them,” said Sen. Brian Schatz (D-Hawaii) of the tech giants, “but we are trying to make sure that their economic power does not diminish either the economic power of individuals or other companies."
Lau (centre), Wong (second left), Janet (fourth right) and others prick balloons to get the Family Day rolling.
Time for everyone to show their patriotism for the country.
SIBU: YMCA Camp Resort Sibu plans to have their own website to promote their activities and to woo visitors to their facility.
Its president, Temenggong Vincent Lau, said YMCA (Young Men Christian Association) Sibu would have a “global” reach once it goes online.
Met at the ‘Family Day’ for YMCA Sibu and KTS Club members at YMCA Camp Resort yesterday, Lau said it was about time to promote the peaceful and beautiful natural surroundings of the resort to an international audience.
He added that facilities at the resort would be improved from time to time to ensure guests had fond memories of it.
“When they have fond memories of the resort, they are likely to share their experiences among family members, relatives, friends and colleagues,” he said, adding that YMCA Sibu was open to constructive suggestions from the public on how to improve the resort.
Lau assured that the charges imposed by the resort would be “very attractive and reasonable”.
On a related matter, he said the resort had vacancy for an Event Manager to push its promotions.
Present at the Family Day were YMCA Sibu director Wong Ei Sing and vice president Kapitan Datuk Janet Lau.
The sporting Lau in action during a game.
The more we learn about DC Universe, the more exciting the streaming service sounds. Sure, that Titans trailer from Comic Con was incredibly silly in a not-at-all-intentional way, but DC Universe has a ton of other exciting shows coming. There’s Swamp Thing, Harley Quinn, Young Justice and now Doom Patrol. The series follows a particularly strange team of superheroes, who don’t quite fit in with the rest of DC’s roster. The series will follow Robotman, Negative Man, Elasti-Woman, Crazy Jane and their leader, Dr. Niles Caulder. Cyborg will also play a big part in this series.
The show had already found its Crazy Jane (Diane Guerrero), Elasti-Woman (April Bowlby) and Cyborg (Joivan Wade). Now, Variety reports, it’s found it’s Robotman: Brendan Fraser. Yes, George of the Jungle/Dudley Do-Right/the guy from The Mummy is joining the DC television universe. Robotman, also known as Cliff Steele, is the only character to have been in every iteration of the Doom Patrol in the comics. He was a race car driver who got into a bad accident and had his brain put inside a robot. Possible spoiler for the upcoming show: In the comics, the crash turned out to have been caused by Dr. Caulder. We’ll see if the show takes that route. It does seem like the kind of thing a DC TV show would bring over.
The series will be produced by writer Jeremy Carver, Geoff Johns, Sarah Schechter and, of course, Greg Berlanti, adding still more to his pile of DC comic book TV shows. Hey, they’ve all been really good, so we’re not complaining. The specifics of the show are still unknown at this point. It’ll probably be some time before we know what kind of tone or format it has. All we know is it’s going to explore some of the weirder aspects of DC lore. As strange as The Flash, Supergirl and Legends of Tomorrow have gotten, that just makes me wonder what this show could possibly do that Berlanti and co. consider so weird.
Doom Patrol is set for a 2019 release on DC Universe.
Meanwhile, over in the Arrowverse, another famous DC superhero was added to December’s big four-show crossover. The annual event has become the most exciting part of the season for all these shows, even if there’s no way they can top “Crisis on Earth X.” From the sounds of things, they aren’t trying to. This year’s will be a slightly scaled back, more character-focused crossover. But they’re still pulling out the big DC guns. According to IGN, Tyler Hoechlin will reprise his role as Superman in three of the four crossover episodes. He’s not the only one, either. He’ll be bringing Lois Lane along for her first-ever Arrowverse appearance.
Casting for Lane hasn’t begun yet, so we don’t yet know what the Arroverse version of the character will look like. Supergirl executive producers are thrilled about the character’s debut, though. “We couldn’t be more excited to introduce Lois Lane to the Arrowverse. This dogged, determined and brave reporter will make for a strong partner to Superman and an amazing addition to our universe of DC characters,” they said in a statement.
Supergirl surprised everyone in its second season when it brought Hoechlin on as Superman. While the big screen version was dark and brooding and almost unrecognizable, Hoechlin brought us the optimistic, inspiring version of the hero we all grew up with. He also didn’t take the focus away from Supergirl. It was still Kara’s show, her cousin just showed up for a fun visit. He’s a fantastic Superman, and we’re sure, they’ll cast an equally fantastic Lois Lane. Still just a little more excited to see Ruby Rose as Batwoman, though. Man, December can’t come fast enough.
In the far more secretive movie side of DC, we’re all waiting to see more of Aquaman. There’s apparently still some pretty big aspects of the movie they haven’t shown the general public yet, so we’re thirsty for any info we can get. And director James Wan is only happy to tease us. He shared the first couple images of the Aquaman LEGO tie-in toys last weekend, giving us a look at Aquaman, Meera, and Black Manta minifigs as well as the Black Manta sub playset.
Ahem. Aquaman will release in theaters December 14, 2018.
Beyond Aquaman, one of DC’s most exciting upcoming movies is Wonder Woman 1984. We’re still a ways off from seeing a trailer, but the set photos have been amazing and just a bit mysterious. How is Steve still alive (and looking like that) in 1984? We’ll have to wait until the movie comes out to learn the answer. But now we do have an idea of what the movie will sound like. According to Film Music Reporter, Academy Award-winning composer Hans Zimmer will provide the score for the upcoming sequel. Though he didn’t provide the music for the first Wonder Woman, this isn’t his first time writing for the character. Zimmer wrote Wonder Woman’s theme in Batman v. Superman: Dawn of Justice. You remember, the score for the one good part of that whole movie.
Zimmer is an excellent composer. People make fun of him for the foghorn-like Bwaaaam they think he wrote into Inception. Especially because it was subsequently used in every suspense movie trailer for years afterwards. But for one, he didn’t actually write that. And two, listen to the actual score of any movie he’s written music for. It’s phenomenal. His music is immediately effective, turning onscreen tragedy into an aural punch in the gut. Turning heroic entrances into moments of pure triumph. You remember that Wonder Woman scene in BvS. He also retired from Superhero movies in 2016, according to Collider, so this sequel really must be something special. His music will be an excellent addition to Wonder Woman 1984. We’ll all get to hear it when Wonder Woman 1984 hits theaters November 1, 2019.
Wonder Woman ’84 looks amazing, and SDCC gave us just a taste of what’s to come. But we will have The Flash premier in a few weeks so now is a good time to get caught up. And Aquaman is just around the corner. Stay up to date on all the ongoings in the DCEU here.
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The couple announced their engagement last month.
Newly engaged couple Jennifer Lopez and Alex Rodriguez are in no rush to head down the aisle. In a new interview, the singer admitted she and her husband-to-be are both too busy to even think about wedding planning.
During her appearance on the Elvis Duran and the Morning Show, host Elvis asked Jennifer if she was hiring an event planner or if she was taking charge of the wedding planning by herself.
She then explained that she and the baseball veteran want to spend a bit more time enjoying their engagement before tackling the nuptials. “We've vaguely talked about, like 'Oh, when do you think?' and things like that but nothing is set in stone,” she said.
Another reason for the delay is that the superstar couple already has a lot on their plates. “We have so much ahead of us this year,” Jennifer shared. “[Alex] just started Sunday Night Baseball [and] he’s traveling constantly, and I just started the movie and then I go on tour, and trying to even put our schedules together so we can see each other is challenging."
Are you surprised Alex and Jennifer haven't started planning their wedding? Share your thoughts in the comments section.
Brenda Song has appeared on a number of shows, but is best known for her won on the Disney series The Suite Life of Zack & Cody and The Suite Life on Deck. In 2008, TV Guide listed Song as one of the "13 Hottest Young Stars to Watch".
The actress was involved in an odd controversy in the summer of 2011. It was reported that she was pregnant, but then her mom came out and said that isn't the case.
Theresa May has suffered a second humiliating defeat on her Brexit deal, as MPs rejected the last-minute reassurances she won from the EU27 on Monday and voted it down by a crushing majority of 149.
With just 17 days to go until the UK is due to leave the EU, MPs ignored the prime minister’s pleas to “get the deal done”, after the Democratic Unionist party (DUP) said it could not support the agreement.
The prime minister immediately gave a statement, saying she was “profoundly disappointed” that her deal had been rejected again.
No one’s quite sure what to make of the options in front of Parliament at the moment. Presumably, the delay motion will pass, as both parties will need some time to maneuver with May’s plan and the crash-out off the table. That assumes, though, that some other deal is possible and can get put together in a few weeks, which is as long as the EU is willing to delay the UK’s exit without Parliament canceling it altogether. The EU has its own parliamentary elections coming in late spring, and they are insisting that the UK will have to participate if they remain in the EU at that time.
Corbyn wants a new election to sort all this out, but that’s not a terribly practical choice at this point. It would take a few months to call an election even if the Tories were willing to go along with a no-confidence vote, and Parliament simply doesn’t have a few months to waste before making decisions on Brexit. By the time they could call an election, the default no-deal Brexit will have already taken place and the damage done for at least a significant amount of time.
The House of Commons’ second rejection of the EU-UK Brexit deal has “significantly increased” the risk of a damaging “no-deal” divorce, a spokesman for European Council President Donald Tusk said.
About the only consensus on this situation is that it’s a complete disaster now. The only options left manage to look worse than the utter failure that has produced them. A second referendum isn’t likely to demonstrate any more consensus in either direction than the first one did, even if the hysteria about a second referendum being the end of democracy is overblown. (It’s better understood as a great example of why both British and American founders of government mistrusted direct democracy in the first place.) Waiting doesn’t change any of the conditions surrounding the issue except for the desperation of those who are engaged in it. Moving forward in any direction will anger a large section of the populace and undermine the credibility of the sovereign government that Brexit was supposedly championing.
About the only decent bet would now be on a default no-deal Brexit, one in which Parliament either doesn’t get the EU to sign off on an extension or fails to vote to authorize one at the end of the week. After nearly one thousand days of negotiations, no other outcome looks possible now.