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Revkin">Andrew C. Revkin</a></address>  <div class="entry-content"> <p><a style="margin: 0pt auto; padding: 0px 6px; text-align: center; display: block;" id="aptureLink_TtEZFgqM97" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090906131350/http://graphics8.nytimes.com/images/2005/10/04/science/04happ.650.jpg"><img title="" src="https://web.archive.org/web/20090906131350im_/http://graphics8.nytimes.com/images/2005/10/04/science/04happ.650.jpg" style="border: 0px none ;" width="318.60655737704917px" height="239.20000000000002px"/></a><br/> This is just a quick <a id="aptureLink_KAk5Sb1oDe" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090906131350/http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GZkq7d4lyrw">Labor Day weekend</a> look back at a story I wrote in 2005 assessing Bhutan’s effort to adopt <a id="aptureLink_4bjhkLGk8F" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090906131350/http://www.nytimes.com/2005/10/04/science/04happ.html">gross national happiness as its main <metric for gauging progress, in place of the more familiar western import -- gross national product. the piece included a fascinating graphic showing the inconsistent relationship between <a id="aptureLink_XXVlSBNQN5" href="http://www.nytimes.com/imagepages/2005/10/03/science/20051004_HAPP_GRAPHIC.html">income and perceptions of happiness</metric></a>. Since 2005, the concept has gained momentum <a id="aptureLink_VamPULaEXR" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090906131350/http://www.gnh-movement.org/">in Thailand</a> and within Bhutan, which is developing a <a id="aptureLink_OnHmGuY6oR" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090906131350/http://www.grossnationalhappiness.com//gnhIndex/intruductionGNH.aspx">set of indicators for tracking progress</a> toward what would otherwise be an awfully amorphous goal. The themes in this piece have <a id="aptureLink_QeR5QPlSiX" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090906131350/http://dotearth.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/02/06/the-endless-pursuit-of-unnecessary-things/">resonated on Dot Earth</a> repeatedly. Below I’ve pasted a few fun excerpts from the story, which revolved around a <a id="aptureLink_EtRs01K0Ev" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090906131350/http://www.gpiatlantic.org/conference/media_clips.htm">conference in Nova Scotia</a> on Bhutan’s social experiment:<br/> <strong><br/> Defining Happiness</strong></p> <blockquote><p> The founding fathers, said <a id="aptureLink_OAHmgwAZ3Y" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090906131350/http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John%20Ralston%20Saul">John Ralston Saul</a>, a Canadian political philosopher, defined happiness as a balance of individual and community interests. “The Enlightenment theory of happiness was an expression of public good or the public welfare, of the contentment of the people,” Mr. Saul said. And, he added, this could not be further from “the 20th-century idea that you should smile because you’re at Disneyland.” </p></blockquote> <p><strong><br/> Outdoing the Joneses</strong></p> <blockquote><p> [B]eyond a certain threshold of wealth people appear to redefine happiness, studies suggest, focusing on their relative position in society instead of their material status. Nothing defines this shift better than <a id="aptureLink_xNCEYkEkHI" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090906131350/http://www.spring.org.uk/2008/01/experiences-beat-possessions-why.php">a 1998 survey</a> of 257 students, faculty and staff members at the Harvard School of Public Health. In the study, the researchers, Sara J. Solnick and David Hemenway, gave the subjects a choice of earning $50,000 a year in a world where the average salary was $25,000 or $100,000 a year where the average was $200,000. About 50 percent of the participants, the researchers found, chose the first option, preferring to be half as prosperous but richer than their neighbors. </p></blockquote> <p><strong><br/> The Trouble With Money</strong></p> <blockquote><p> Participants focused on an array of approaches to the happiness puzzle, from practical to radical. <a id="aptureLink_5lLCt7X8F4" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090906131350/http://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/12/opinion/12DEGR.html">John de Graaf, a Seattle filmmaker</a> and campaigner trying to cut the amount of time people devote to work, wore a T-shirt that said, “Medieval peasants worked less than you do.” In an open discussion, <a id="aptureLink_xnyZ2Ago1o" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090906131350/http://www.facebook.com/people/Bogaert-Marc/1680161092">Marc van Bogaert</a> from Belgium described his path to happiness: “I want to live in a world without money.” <a id="aptureLink_K4yTB2Wu9Y" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090906131350/http://www.alchaddock.com/">Al Chaddock</a>, a painter from Nova Scotia, immediately offered a suggestion: “Become an artist.” </p></blockquote> <p><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090906131350/http://www.nytimes.com/2005/10/04/science/04happ.html"><br/> Read the rest….</a><br/> <strong><br/> How do you measure progress and gauge your well-being?</strong></p> </div> </div><div class="entry-meta"> <ul class="entry-tools"> <li class="comment-link"><a class="post-comment" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090906131350/http://community.nytimes.com/comments/dotearth.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/09/06/on-work-wealth-and-well-being/"></a><script type="text/javascript"> // <![CDATA[ NYTD.blogsCRNRObj.setPostData('', 'https://web.archive.org/web/20090906131350/http://dotearth.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/09/06/on-work-wealth-and-well-being/', 'On Work, Wealth and Well-Being', 'https://web.archive.org/web/20090906131350/http://community.nytimes.com/comments/dotearth.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/09/06/on-work-wealth-and-well-being/', 'https://web.archive.org/web/20090906131350/http://dotearth.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/09/06/on-work-wealth-and-well-being/'); 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Revkin</a></address>  <div class="entry-content"> <p><a style="margin: 0pt auto; padding: 0px 6px; text-align: center; display: block;" id="aptureLink_BUWdSbk5nF" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090906131350/http://www.flickr.com/photos/us-mission/3884183805/"><img title="Dr. Jane Lubchenco Addressing the World Climate Conference 3" src="https://web.archive.org/web/20090906131350im_/http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2493/3884183805_0392120658.jpg" style="border: 0px none ;" width="360.1851851851852px" height="252.85000000000002px"/></a><br/> <a id="aptureLink_zeDE1jEk5p" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090906131350/http://dotearth.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/03/20/lubchencos-goals-on-oceans-climate/">Jane Lubchenco</a>, the administrator of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, led the United States delegation this week to the <a id="aptureLink_3sHywfBJuD" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090906131350/http://www.wmo.int/wcc3/page_en.php">World Climate Conference</a>, a meeting in Geneva aimed at providing the world with the information needed to navigate a changing climate. I spoke with Dr. Lubchenco briefly as the meeting adjourned. Here are her impressions of the most important outcomes.<br/> <strong><br/> From Weather Services to Climate Services:</strong> She hailed the decision by the 1,500 participants, convened by the <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090906131350/http://www.wmo.int/">World Meteorological Organization</a>, to establish a <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090906131350/http://www.wmo.int/pages/mediacentre/press_releases/pr_861_en.html">Global Framework for Climate Services</a> “to strengthen production, availability, delivery and application of science-based climate prediction and services.” Dr. Lubchenco has made the expansion of a <a id="aptureLink_tHHKAYRiWB" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090906131350/http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wjj6WZi4vdU">National Climate Service</a> in the United States a high priority. The goal is to help farmers, city planners and other people adjust investments and activities to account for shifting climate patterns in the way they rely on the National Weather Service for day-to-day advice. </p> <p>For the moment, such efforts face challenges, including the persistent inability of computer <a id="aptureLink_xDOZiwVwSp" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090906131350/http://www.nytimes.com/2009/08/04/science/earth/04clima.html?_r=1&scp=2&sq=climate%20change&st=cse">climate simulations to reliably replicate climate patterns</a> at the scale of states and cities. </p> <p>Dr. Lubchenco pointed to examples of federal forecasting programs that provide a model for better things to come. “We’re beginning to see convergence between what users need and science can deliver,” she said. “We’re not there yet. But we already do a lot of regional scale predictions, such as those provided by the <a id="aptureLink_jc7mSh5PbR" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090906131350/http://www.drought.gov/index.html">National Integrated Drought Information System</a>.”<br/> <strong><br/> Filling Climate Data Gaps: </strong> I asked her whether the conference attendees focused on filling <a id="aptureLink_gBNpc9iFso" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090906131350/http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9E03E6DB1F30F930A35757C0A9619C8B63">gaps in basic information on weather and climate</a>, particularly in sub-Saharan Africa and other poor regions, and she said this was a prime focus. <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090906131350/http://dotearth.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/09/04/countries-pledge-to-boost-climate-forecasts/#more-7725" class="more-link">Read more…</a></p> </div> </div><div class="entry-meta"> <ul class="entry-tools"> <li class="comment-link"><a class="post-comment" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090906131350/http://community.nytimes.com/comments/dotearth.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/09/04/countries-pledge-to-boost-climate-forecasts/"></a><script type="text/javascript"> // <![CDATA[ NYTD.blogsCRNRObj.setPostData('', 'https://web.archive.org/web/20090906131350/http://dotearth.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/09/04/countries-pledge-to-boost-climate-forecasts/', 'Countries Pledge to Boost Climate Forecasts', 'https://web.archive.org/web/20090906131350/http://community.nytimes.com/comments/dotearth.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/09/04/countries-pledge-to-boost-climate-forecasts/', 'https://web.archive.org/web/20090906131350/http://dotearth.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/09/04/countries-pledge-to-boost-climate-forecasts/'); 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Revkin</a></address>  <div class="entry-content"> <div class="w480"><img src="https://web.archive.org/web/20090906131350im_/http://graphics8.nytimes.com/images/blogs/dotearth/04dotearth_nepassage1.480.jpg" alt="Beluga Fraternity"/><span class="credit">Beluga Group</span> <span class="caption">As the Beluga Fraternity entered Arctic waters, the crew kept track of ice floes.</span></div> <p>More than halfway through a <a id="aptureLink_TkmjKOyxoz" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090906131350/http://dotearth.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/07/28/era-of-trans-arctic-shipping-nigh/">rare trans-Arctic commercial voyage</a>, two German heavy-lift ships carrying power-plant components from South Korea to a Siberian port were scheduled today to pass the <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090906131350/http://maps.google.com/maps/ms?ie=UTF8&msa=0&msid=106769543878646723505.000471b25dc07f6049ce5&ll=77.31252,99.316406&spn=13.66462,106.523437&t=h&z=3">northernmost point</a> on their route, the <a id="aptureLink_mEO0n0O3bZ" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090906131350/http://maps.google.com/maps?om=0&iwloc=addr&f=q&ll=77.95%2C103.5833333&hl=en&z=16&ie=UTF8">Vilkitsky Strait</a>. The ships have been encountering small icebergs and rafts of sea ice since they passed through the Bering Strait last weekend, company officials say. But they are being escorted by the Russian nuclear-powered icebreaker <a id="aptureLink_4mjmZJcA2x" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090906131350/http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VVtDX46cTJQ">50 Years Since Victory</a> to limit risk and also have Russian pilots aboard. Excerpts from the Sept. 3 log entries of the two German vessels, the Beluga Fraternity and Beluga Foresight, are appended below. The ships could reach <a id="aptureLink_IVFxE4dTEc" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090906131350/http://maps.google.com/maps?om=0&iwloc=addr&f=q&ll=67.6932373%2C72.9049225&hl=en&z=11&ie=UTF8">Novyi Port</a>, where the equipment would be unloaded, by Sunday or Monday. They would then continue west toward home.</p> <p>Some fresh background placing this voyage in context has come from <a id="aptureLink_bNIEwOioJo" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090906131350/http://seagrant.uaf.edu/news/04ASJ/05.21.04smoothsailing.html">Lawson W. Brigham</a>, a retired captain of one of <a id="aptureLink_WLhduZGGrH" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090906131350/http://www.nytimes.com/2005/12/16/national/16ice.html?ex=1292389200&en=68c2699bca3f7d23&ei=5088&partner=rssnyt&emc=rss">America’s aging polar icebreakers</a> and lead author of an important report on Arctic shipping trends and issues, the <a id="aptureLink_J81Le9VuFY" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090906131350/http://arcticportal.org/pame/amsa">Arctic Marine Shipping Assessment</a>. Dr. Brigham said the Beluga shipments are probably the vanguard of what will be decades of exploratory efforts to normalize such trade. But he doubts that big container shipping companies, which require predictability, will be eying such routes any time soon, given both the climatic and bureaucratic obstacles. Dr. Brigham said that to a large extent, it is Russian bureaucracy more than sea ice or icebergs that is impeding international use of the Arctic route along its coast, which has in theory been <a id="aptureLink_ZOvihOI0KU" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090906131350/http://www.carc.org/pubs/v16no4/1.htm">open to such transit since 1987</a>. </p> <p>He added that, for the record, the Beluga shipments do not constitute the first commercial transit of non-Russian vessels through the fabled Northern Sea Route (also called the Northeast Passage). <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090906131350/http://dotearth.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/09/04/commercial-arctic-passage-nearing-goal/#more-7657" class="more-link">Read more…</a></p> </div> </div><div class="entry-meta"> <ul class="entry-tools"> <li class="comment-link"><a class="post-comment" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090906131350/http://community.nytimes.com/comments/dotearth.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/09/04/commercial-arctic-passage-nearing-goal/"></a><script type="text/javascript"> // <![CDATA[ NYTD.blogsCRNRObj.setPostData('', 'https://web.archive.org/web/20090906131350/http://dotearth.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/09/04/commercial-arctic-passage-nearing-goal/', 'Commercial Arctic Passage Nearing Goal', 'https://web.archive.org/web/20090906131350/http://community.nytimes.com/comments/dotearth.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/09/04/commercial-arctic-passage-nearing-goal/', 'https://web.archive.org/web/20090906131350/http://dotearth.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/09/04/commercial-arctic-passage-nearing-goal/'); 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Revkin">Andrew C. Revkin</a></address>  <div class="entry-content"> <p><a style="margin: 0pt auto; padding: 0px 6px; text-align: center; display: block;" id="aptureLink_MLAncq6ymK" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090906131350/http://www.eurekalert.org/multimedia/pub/media/16421.jpg"><img title="" src="https://web.archive.org/web/20090906131350im_/http://www.eurekalert.org/multimedia/pub/media/16421.jpg" style="border: 0px none ;" width="480px" height="213.66583333333335px"/></a></p> <p>The Arctic has long been understood to <a id="aptureLink_7trI6j8bgZ" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090906131350/http://www.nytimes.com/2005/10/25/science/earth/25arctic.html?ex=1287892800&en=df6aa7599a1ad6e2&ei=5090&partner=rssuserland&emc=rss">amplify a little nudge on the global climate</a> into big regional changes. But <a id="aptureLink_JQHjUMWHif" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090906131350/http://www.nytimes.com/2009/09/04/science/earth/04arctic.html?ref=science">a story I’ve just written</a> describes how scientists <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090906131350/http://www.arcus.org/synthesis2k/SpecialVolume.php">probing lakes</a>, ice and old trees from Alaska to Siberia have found out just how big a poke humans appear to be giving that system through emissions of heat-trapping greenhouse gases (and probably heat-trapping soot, too). </p> <p>[<strong>UPDATE, 4:45 pm</strong>: Steve McIntyre, seeing a familiar climate "<a id="aptureLink_amTJpLKfnM" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090906131350/http://www.nytimes.com/2006/06/22/science/22cnd-climate.html?ei=5090&en=03c009b6289a6078&ex=1308628800&partner=rssuserland&emc=rss&pagewanted=all">hockey stick</a>" curve, has <a id="aptureLink_VfuyzGDzGa" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090906131350/http://www.climateaudit.org/?p=6932">weighed in with some complaints</a> about data choices. <a id="aptureLink_7sqWOpH165" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090906131350/http://www.climatesciencewatch.org/index.php/csw/details/new-arctic-warming-study/">Rick Piltz of Climate Science Watch</a> worries that my exploration of the long-term implications of the work might be abused by folks fighting restrictions on greenhouse gases.]</p> <p>When the human-caused buildup of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases got into high gear in the last century, the Arctic was two-thirds of the way through what should be a <a id="aptureLink_OUMMzbToj8" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090906131350/http://www.eurekalert.org/multimedia/pub/16403.php?from=143626">12,000-year cooling phase</a> driven by orbital conditions (resulting in Arctic latitudes in summer getting a diminishing amount of solar heating). As a result, the relentless slow cooling — about 0.36 degrees Fahrenheit per 1,000 years — has been swamped by a warming that raised the average temperature of Arctic summers more than 2 degrees in less than 100 years. </p> <p>In the short run, many climate specialists are concerned that Arctic ecosystems won’t be able to cope with such a torrid pace of heating. In the very long run (presuming humans thrive for millenniums to come) the research demonstrates quite clearly that this era really is <a id="aptureLink_Dnh7wwUSU5" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090906131350/http://dotearth.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/01/28/earth-is-us/">the Anthropocene</a> — a geological period of our own making, either by accident or design. </p> <p>Appraising the new work in this context, <a id="aptureLink_TwLAhjl9qP" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090906131350/http://www.geos.ed.ac.uk/homes/tcrowley">Thomas Crowley</a>, a climate specialist at the University of Edinburgh, said there are ample signs that Earth’s climate, including the great cycles of warm periods and big chills driven by orbital mechanics, is within our sway. </p> <p>“I would say that this is another piece of evidence that strengthens the argument that humans are now capable of preventing the onset of a future ice age,” he told me. Another scientist holding this view is James E. Hansen of NASA, whom <a id="aptureLink_kOChSlYDL7" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090906131350/http://www.nytimes.com/2003/11/11/science/when-will-the-next-ice-age-begin.html">I interviewed about the timing of the next ice age in 2003.</a></p> <p><a id="aptureLink_SGH1GhrUco" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090906131350/http://www.nsf.gov/news/news_summ.jsp?cntn_id=115010">The new study</a> draws on years of grinding, mosquito-plagued field work. Here’s a picture by the lead author, Darrell Kaufman, of one of the lake-coring efforts, in Alaska:</p> <p><a style="margin: 0pt auto; padding: 0px 6px; text-align: center; display: block;" id="aptureLink_IV7EstmkH6" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090906131350/http://graphics8.nytimes.com/images/blogs/dotearth/03dotearth_alaska.480.jpg"><img title="" src="https://web.archive.org/web/20090906131350im_/http://graphics8.nytimes.com/images/blogs/dotearth/03dotearth_alaska.480.jpg" style="border: 0px none ;" width="356.84999999999997px" height="237.89999999999998px"/></a></p> </div> </div><div class="entry-meta"> <ul class="entry-tools"> <li class="comment-link"><a class="post-comment" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090906131350/http://community.nytimes.com/comments/dotearth.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/09/03/humans-may-have-ended-long-arctic-chill/"></a><script type="text/javascript"> // <![CDATA[ NYTD.blogsCRNRObj.setPostData('', 'https://web.archive.org/web/20090906131350/http://dotearth.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/09/03/humans-may-have-ended-long-arctic-chill/', 'Humans May Have Ended Long Arctic Chill', 'https://web.archive.org/web/20090906131350/http://community.nytimes.com/comments/dotearth.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/09/03/humans-may-have-ended-long-arctic-chill/', 'https://web.archive.org/web/20090906131350/http://dotearth.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/09/03/humans-may-have-ended-long-arctic-chill/'); 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padding: 0px 6px; text-align: center; display: block;" id="aptureLink_1FKzrnO7Ri" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090906131350/http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4EfT16wF3qY"><img title="Cars choking Delhi's roads" src="https://web.archive.org/web/20090906131350im_/http://i.ytimg.com/vi/4EfT16wF3qY/hqdefault.jpg" style="border: 0px none ;" width="340px" height="285px"/></a></p> <p>NEW DELHI - India released an analysis on Wednesday projecting that its <a id="aptureLink_bsorhddNDq" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090906131350/http://pib.nic.in/release/release.asp?relid=52329">emissions of greenhouse gases in 2031</a> will be triple today’s, although well below the global average on a per-capita basis. </p> <p>The report is part of India’s attempt to stake out a bargaining stance before the <a id="aptureLink_I9tHKajZYU" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090906131350/http://dotearth.blogs.nytimes.com/tag/climate-treaty/">Copenhagen climate summit</a> in December. There, India and China are likely to face pressure to accept limits on their greenhouse emissions. Many American lawmakers have demanded <a id="aptureLink_Hda7EDLY73" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090906131350/http://dotearth.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/07/28/china-and-us-pledge-climate-teamwork/">that concrete steps be taken by the large developing countries</a> before they approve domestic climate legislation or a new treaty. India has argued that developing countries should not be asked to take steps to curtail their growth when they contribute less pollution per person than developed countries.</p> <p>“Our per-capita emissions will never exceed the per capita emissions of developed countries” said <a id="aptureLink_V7PRt8fIyw" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090906131350/http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jairam%20Ramesh">Jairam Ramesh</a>, India’s minister of environment and forests, in releasing the report. </p> <p>The five studies estimated that India’s annual per-capita emissions in 2030-31 will be the equivalent of 2.77 tonnes to 5.00 tonnes of carbon dioxide. The studies projected India’s population at 1.5 billion in 2031. 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Revkin">Andrew C. Revkin</a></address>  <div class="entry-content"> <div class="w190 right"><img src="https://web.archive.org/web/20090906131350im_/http://graphics8.nytimes.com/images/2008/03/30/nyregion/thecity/cook190.jpg" alt="Frederick Cook"/><span class="credit">Courtesy of the Frederick A. Cook Society</span> <span class="caption">Frederick A. Cook, a doctor from Bushwick, Brooklyn, who claimed to be the <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090906131350/http://www.nytimes.com/2008/03/30/nyregion/thecity/30cook.html">first person to reach the North Pole</a>.</span></div> <p>My colleague John Tierney has posted on the centennial of the stunning <a id="aptureLink_qWbmwwveap" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090906131350/http://tierneylab.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/09/02/how-dr-cook-scooped-the-times/">announcement by the Arctic explorer Frederick Cook</a> that he had reached the North Pole. He telegraphed word of his claim to the New York Herald, which filled its front page with the news on Sept. 2, 1909, utterly scooping The New York Times, which helped underwrite the North Pole expedition of Robert E. Peary. </p> <p>Here’s John’s lede: </p> <blockquote><p>Precisely 100 years ago today, the New York Times newsroom must have been a gloomy place. The newspaper was a sponsor of Robert E. Peary’s polar expedition, but Peary still hadn’t been heard from as of Sept. 2, 1909. On that day, the New York Herald’s entire front page was devoted to the scoop that it had just received by telegram from Peary’s rival: “The North Pole Is Discovered by Dr. Frederick A. Cook.” Now, just in time for the centennial anniversary, a historian has found the pieces of paper that started the great Cook-Peary polar controversy: Cook’s hand-written drafts of the telegrams that he sent to the Herald and to a European observatory from Lerwick, the capital of the Shetland Islands. <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090906131350/http://tierneylab.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/09/02/how-dr-cook-scooped-the-times/">Read more….</a></p></blockquote> <p>Somewhat reminiscent of today’s debates over <a id="aptureLink_QKEiSjAcj3" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090906131350/http://www.nytimes.com/2007/12/14/sports/baseball/14mitchell.html?ei=5088&en=e41c3c5c4faac076&ex=1355288400&adxnnl=1&partner=rssnyt&emc=rss&adxnnlx=1197579634-hTkhKThs5uxnhu8dbAI0sw">baseball records and steroids</a>, the fight over who was first to the top of the world is tainted. As I wrote in “<a id="aptureLink_h5fIcYuNQR" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090906131350/http://www.nytimes.com/ref/learning/newssummaries/northpolech1.html">The North Pole Was Here</a>,” my 2006 New York Times book on the once and future Arctic: <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090906131350/http://dotearth.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/09/02/north-pole-claims-and-dreams/#more-7549" class="more-link">Read more…</a></p> </div> </div><div class="entry-meta"> <ul class="entry-tools"> <li class="comment-link"><a class="post-comment" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090906131350/http://community.nytimes.com/comments/dotearth.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/09/02/north-pole-claims-and-dreams/"></a><script type="text/javascript"> // <![CDATA[ NYTD.blogsCRNRObj.setPostData('', 'https://web.archive.org/web/20090906131350/http://dotearth.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/09/02/north-pole-claims-and-dreams/', 'North Pole Claims and Dreams', 'https://web.archive.org/web/20090906131350/http://community.nytimes.com/comments/dotearth.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/09/02/north-pole-claims-and-dreams/', 'https://web.archive.org/web/20090906131350/http://dotearth.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/09/02/north-pole-claims-and-dreams/'); 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Revkin">Andrew C. Revkin</a></address>  <div class="entry-content"> <div class="w480"><img src="https://web.archive.org/web/20090906131350im_/http://graphics8.nytimes.com/images/blogs/dotearth/28dotearth_leopard1.480.jpg" alt="snow leopard"/><span class="credit">Wildlife Conservation Society</span> <span class="caption">A snow leopard photographed in Afghanistan in July.</span></div> <p>A Dot Earth reader, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090906131350/http://bit.ly/AppleCats">Jamie from Seattle</a>, made an interesting comment the other day when we ran the <a id="aptureLink_LUjxHN6Aab" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090906131350/http://dotearth.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/08/28/rare-photo-of-snow-leopard-in-afghanistan/">new snow leopard photograph</a> from Afghanistan (lots of readers noted the clever timing of the Wildlife Conservation Society release, which came just as Apple was unveiling its <a id="aptureLink_CCGC3H9iWC" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090906131350/http://www.nytimes.com/2009/08/27/technology/personaltech/27pogue.html">new operating system</a> with the same name):</p> <blockquote><p> It is time that Apple give to charities that help the endangered animals that grace their box covers. Otherwise, it just looks like exploitation.</p></blockquote> <p>I have a query in on this to Apple’s press office and will update this post when I hear back. We noticed that some <a id="aptureLink_rdc1ybcLMo" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090906131350/http://www.applelinks.com/index.php/more/apple_specialists_help_save_wild_snow_leopards1/">independent retailers handling Macs</a> have in fact helped the Snow Leopard Trust. In the meantime, what do you think about the broader question? Should companies that cash in on the names, images and auras of great, endangered cats and other species help conserve them? (I can think of a few <a id="aptureLink_18H7SRR91n" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090906131350/http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YFX522MdmdA">tiger logos</a> associated with everything from cereal boxes to gas stations.)</p> <div class="w480"><img src="https://web.archive.org/web/20090906131350im_/http://graphics8.nytimes.com/images/blogs/dotearth/01dotearth_leopardskins.480.jpg" alt="leopard skins in Djibouti."/><span class="credit">Andrew C. 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For example: Could engineers pump chemicals into the atmosphere to increase the amount of sunlight reflected away from Earth, cooling the planet? Almost certainly, the answer will turn out to be yes. </p> <p> But would the consequences of this step or any other <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090906131350/http://groups.google.com/group/geoengineering">climate-altering geoengineering</a> be acceptable? From an engineering standpoint, that question is hard to answer – no one can say for sure what the consequences might be. Beyond that, though, what is “acceptable?” This is not a question that scientists or engineers have the authority to answer.</p> <p> Although geoengineering is a subject of lively debate among a relatively small group of scientists, so far there has been little public discussion. (I wrote <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090906131350/http://www.nytimes.com/2007/11/10/science/earth/10geo.html?_r=1">an article</a> about the technology, and <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090906131350/http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/12/science/12ethics.html">another one about engineering ethics </a>generally.) Now <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090906131350/http://royalsociety.org/">the Royal Society</a>, Britain’s leading scientific academy, has entered the debate with <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090906131350/http://royalsociety.org/displaypagedoc.asp?id=35110">a new report</a>, “Geoengineering the Climate.” </p> <p> At the moment, the technology of geoengineering “is bedeviled by much doubt and confusion,” the astrophysicist <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090906131350/http://www.ast.cam.ac.uk/staff/mjr/">Martin Rees</a>, who heads the Royal Society, writes in the report’s introduction. “Some schemes are manifestly far-fetched, others are more credible, and are being investigated by reputable scientists; some are being promoted over-optimistically.” <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090906131350/http://dotearth.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/09/01/engineering-a-climate-solution/#more-7499" class="more-link">Read more…</a></p> </div> </div><div class="entry-meta"> <ul class="entry-tools"> <li class="comment-link"><a class="post-comment" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090906131350/http://community.nytimes.com/comments/dotearth.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/09/01/engineering-a-climate-solution/"></a><script type="text/javascript"> // <![CDATA[ NYTD.blogsCRNRObj.setPostData('', 'https://web.archive.org/web/20090906131350/http://dotearth.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/09/01/engineering-a-climate-solution/', 'Engineering a Climate Solution', 'https://web.archive.org/web/20090906131350/http://community.nytimes.com/comments/dotearth.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/09/01/engineering-a-climate-solution/', 'https://web.archive.org/web/20090906131350/http://dotearth.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/09/01/engineering-a-climate-solution/'); 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Revkin">Andrew C. Revkin</a></address>  <div class="entry-content"> <p><a style="margin: 0pt auto; padding: 0px 6px; text-align: center; display: block;" id="aptureLink_KWeOs1dqSy" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090906131350/http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kE6f1mWXceo"><img title="Letting the Lunkers Go" src="https://web.archive.org/web/20090906131350im_/http://i.ytimg.com/vi/kE6f1mWXceo/hqdefault.jpg" style="border: 0px none ;" width="456px" height="285px"/></a></p> <p>While on <a id="aptureLink_R8psCdNHT0" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090906131350/http://dotearth.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/08/24/blackberries-the-edible-kind-and-breaks/">an offline break last week</a> camping behind the dunes in Montauk, N.Y., I was able to get offshore for a few hours with <a id="aptureLink_aUHIWRLi5j" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090906131350/http://www.blueocean.org/">Carl Safina</a>, a <a id="aptureLink_GfGFijlI8S" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090906131350/http://www.nytimes.com/2006/10/24/science/24conv.html?ex=1319342400&en=44bd1d1f9d280aa8&ei=5088&partner=rssnyt&emc=rss">marine biologist and conservationist</a> who’s also a passionate angler. </p> <p>I grew up loving fishing (even writing a song about <a id="aptureLink_GAXuGJoeAs" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090906131350/http://music.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=music.popupplayer&sindex=-1.8&shuffle=false&amix=false&pmix=false&plid=4432&artid=7546545&profid=324227954&friendid=324227954&sseed=0&ptype=3&stime=2.272&ap=1&rpeat=false">a six-pound largemouth bass</a> I caught in “a little patch of paradise, surrounded by suburban sprawl”). But I never caught (and released) something almost four feet long until this short sunset trip, when slab-sided <a id="aptureLink_y3OBoSipLn" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090906131350/http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Striped%20bass%20fishing">striped bass</a> seemed to be waiting 40 feet beneath our boat no matter where we stopped. </p> <p>In the video above, Dr. Safina explains the merits of leaving the biggest fish in the sea, noting that the largest females, like a 40-pounder he wrestled to the boat, produce 10 times as many eggs as fish half their size. You can chuckle as I heft a 46-inch bass I hauled in after it nearly hauled me into the water.</p> <p>Some might snip that releasing lunkers only makes sense in a wealthy place like the United States, where your next meal isn’t something you have to catch. But from <a id="aptureLink_hjByjTYUcO" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090906131350/http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2001/12/1204_TVmarinereserves.html">Caribbean islands like St. Lucia</a> to the <a id="aptureLink_w7pFLwVUxH" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090906131350/http://www.msc.org/track-a-fishery/certified/pacific/bsai-pollock">Bering Sea</a>, fishing communities are learning that a balanced effort — leaving breeding-size fish uncaught or breeding spots untouched — is the best path to healthy harvests.</p> <p>Of course, many fisheries around the world remain in crisis, particularly the <a id="aptureLink_aeV5CJYo2t" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090906131350/http://www.nytimes.com/2005/05/03/science/earth/03tuna.html?ex=1272772800&en=1575e23e99e02cde&ei=5090&partner=rssuserland&emc=rss">bluefin tuna</a>, a longtime focus of Dr. Safina. And we do still have a fixation with size that impedes a variety of conservation efforts. (Biologists say <a id="aptureLink_rBnVVuVmQs" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090906131350/http://www.nytimes.com/2002/12/29/us/states-seek-to-restore-deer-balance.html">deer hunters could better manage overabundance</a> by targeting does instead of the biggest bucks.) Back at the dock in Montauk, the marina — like many — had a board listing the largest fish taken, not the biggest catches of midsize fish. No surprise. There’s a deep-rooted human tendency to glorify the biggest. That largemouth I caught around 1968 is now a tattered bit of taxidermy. </p> <p>Dr. Safina is trying to show you can feed that passion and, by letting the biggest specimens go, still have fish in the sea (or pond) for a long time to come. </p> <p>Another option is to get your wall trophy the 21st-century way, <a id="aptureLink_PFEVjsXrcN" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090906131350/http://www.nytimes.com/2000/02/13/nyregion/how-to-catch-a-trophy-fish-and-not-go-near-the-water.html">ordering a pre-fab fish replica to size</a>, instead of the skin-on-plaster variety. No cheating on the size, though, okay?</p> </div> </div><div class="entry-meta"> <ul class="entry-tools"> <li class="comment-link"><a class="post-comment" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090906131350/http://community.nytimes.com/comments/dotearth.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/09/01/fishing-lessons/"></a><script type="text/javascript"> // <![CDATA[ NYTD.blogsCRNRObj.setPostData('', 'https://web.archive.org/web/20090906131350/http://dotearth.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/09/01/fishing-lessons/', 'Fishing Lessons', 'https://web.archive.org/web/20090906131350/http://community.nytimes.com/comments/dotearth.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/09/01/fishing-lessons/', 'https://web.archive.org/web/20090906131350/http://dotearth.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/09/01/fishing-lessons/'); // ]]> </script></li> <li class="email-this"> <form method="post" name="emailThis_7431" id="emailThis_7431" style="display: inline;" enctype="application/x-www-form-urlencoded" action="https://web.archive.org/web/20090906131350/http://www.nytimes.com/mem/emailthis.html"> <input type="hidden" name="type" value="1"/> <input type="hidden" name="url" value="http%3A%2F%2Fdotearth.blogs.nytimes.com%2F2009%2F09%2F01%2Ffishing-lessons%2F"/> <input type="hidden" name="title" value="Dot%20Earth%3A%20Fishing%20Lessons"/> <input type="hidden" name="description" value="The%20merits%20of%20letting%20the%20biggest%20fish%20go."/> <input type="hidden" name="pub_date" value="20090901"/> <input type="hidden" name="author" value="By%20Andrew%20C.%20Revkin"/> <input type="hidden" name="section" value="Science"/> <input type="hidden" name="nytdsection" value="Science"/> <input type="hidden" name="nytdsubsection" value=""/> <input type="hidden" name="encrypted_key" value="DAmgmPA4JBYrGf+Y2XBJug"/> <input type="hidden" name="encryption_partner" value="about"/> </form> <a class="post-email" href="javascript:NYTD.Blogs.email_this('7431', 'http%3A%2F%2Fdotearth.blogs.nytimes.com%2F2009%2F09%2F01%2Ffishing-lessons%2F');">E-mail This</a> </li> <li class="print"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090906131350/http://dotearth.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/09/01/fishing-lessons/?pagemode=print">Print</a></li> <li id="share7431" class="closed share"> <a id="sharebox7431" onclick="NYTD.BlogShareTools.openEffect('7431'); return false;"> Share</a> <a id="closelink7431" onclick="NYTD.BlogShareTools.closeEffect('7431'); return false;" class="hidden closeButton" style="opacity:0; filter:alpha(opacity=0);">Close</a> <ul class="hide" id="sharelist7431" style="opacity:0; filter:alpha(opacity=0);"> <li class="linkedin"><a href="javascript:blogPostShare('linkedin', 'conservation,fisheries,fishing,ocean,safina,food,human nature,oceans', 'September 1, 2009', '7431');">Linkedin</a></li> <li class="digg"><a href="javascript:blogPostShare('digg', 'conservation,fisheries,fishing,ocean,safina,food,human nature,oceans', 'September 1, 2009', '7431');">Digg</a></li> <li class="facebook"><a href="javascript:blogPostShare('facebook', 'conservation,fisheries,fishing,ocean,safina,food,human nature,oceans', 'September 1, 2009', '7431');">Facebook</a></li> <li class="mixx"><a href="javascript:blogPostShare('mixx', 'conservation,fisheries,fishing,ocean,safina,food,human nature,oceans', 'September 1, 2009', '7431');">Mixx</a></li> <li class="myspace"><a href="javascript:blogPostShare('myspace', 'conservation,fisheries,fishing,ocean,safina,food,human nature,oceans', 'September 1, 2009', '7431');">My Space</a></li> <li class="yahoobuzz" id="yahooBuzzBadge-form"><script badgetype="text" src="https://web.archive.org/web/20090906131350js_/http://d.yimg.com/ds/badge.js">new_york_times:http://dotearth.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/09/01/fishing-lessons/</script></li> <li class="permalink"><a href="javascript:blogPostShare('permalink', 'conservation,fisheries,fishing,ocean,safina,food,human nature,oceans', 'September 1, 2009', '7431');">Permalink</a></li> <li id="sharead7431" class="ad"></li> </ul> </li> </ul> </div><hr/><div class="entry hentry" id="entry-7457">   <span class="timestamp published" title="2009-08-31T14:56:11-04:00"><span class="date">August 31, 2009, <em>2:56 pm</em></span></span>    <h3 class="entry-title"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090906131350/http://dotearth.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/08/31/are-you-on-a-hedonic-treadmill/" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent Link to Are You On a ‘Hedonic Treadmill’?">Are You On a ‘Hedonic Treadmill’?</a></h3> <address class="byline author vcard">By <a href="/web/20090906131350/http://dotearth.blogs.nytimes.com/author/andrew-c-revkin/" class="url fn" title="See all posts by Andrew C. Revkin">Andrew C. Revkin</a></address>  <div class="entry-content"> <div class="w480"><img src="https://web.archive.org/web/20090906131350im_/http://graphics8.nytimes.com/images/2009/05/27/health/treadmill_480.jpg" alt="treadmill"/><span class="credit">Ruth Fremson/The New York Times</span> <span class="caption"></span></div> <p><a id="aptureLink_d2QNMkKZey" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090906131350/http://jsterman.scripts.mit.edu/">John Sterman</a>, whose work comparing <a id="aptureLink_7gXCtM26sm" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090906131350/http://dotearth.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/01/28/the-greenhouse-effect-and-the-bathtub-effect/">the building greenhouse effect to a clogged, filling bathtub</a> has been explored here, has weighed in on the questions I posed about whether <a id="aptureLink_thOzru10Lt" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090906131350/http://www.nytimes.com/2009/08/29/business/economy/29consumer.html?em">the recent consumption slowdown</a> is, in the long run, a good thing. His comments below, exploring the “hedonic treadmill,” follow those of <a id="aptureLink_Dyca5zcAtk" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090906131350/http://dotearth.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/08/30/an-upside-to-the-consumption-chill/">Kenneth Arrow</a>, <a id="aptureLink_fAXmJUAOwc" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090906131350/http://dotearth.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/08/31/daly-on/">Herman Daly</a> and <a id="aptureLink_D8GUeltM4u" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090906131350/http://community.nytimes.com/comments/dotearth.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/08/30/an-upside-to-the-consumption-chill/?permid=10#comment10">Juliet Schor</a>. Also, I’ve got to direct your attention to a comment posted by <a id="aptureLink_l8pzr3sXxz" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090906131350/http://lamarguerite.wordpress.com/2008/03/06/from-gary-peters-a-little-perspective-on-human-numbers-and-environmental-problems/">Gary Peters</a>, who provides an apt quotation from John Stuart Mill, circa 1848. Here’s a teaser: </p> <blockquote><p> “…If the earth must lose that great portion of its pleasantness which it owes to things that the unlimited increase of wealth and population would extirpate from it, for the mere purpose of enabling it to support a larger but not a better or a happier population, I sincerely hope, for the sake of posterity, that they will be content to be stationary, long before necessity compels them to it” <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090906131350/http://community.nytimes.com/comments/dotearth.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/08/31/daly-on/?permid=2#comment2">Read more…</a></p></blockquote> <p>Here’s Dr. Sterman’s analysis of my questions about consumption amid a short-term slowdown in humanity’s blazing growth spurt: <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090906131350/http://dotearth.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/08/31/are-you-on-a-hedonic-treadmill/#more-7457" class="more-link">Read more…</a></p> </div> </div><div class="entry-meta"> <ul class="entry-tools"> <li class="comment-link"><a class="post-comment" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090906131350/http://community.nytimes.com/comments/dotearth.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/08/31/are-you-on-a-hedonic-treadmill/"></a><script type="text/javascript"> // <![CDATA[ NYTD.blogsCRNRObj.setPostData('', 'https://web.archive.org/web/20090906131350/http://dotearth.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/08/31/are-you-on-a-hedonic-treadmill/', 'Are You On a \'Hedonic Treadmill\'?', 'https://web.archive.org/web/20090906131350/http://community.nytimes.com/comments/dotearth.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/08/31/are-you-on-a-hedonic-treadmill/', 'https://web.archive.org/web/20090906131350/http://dotearth.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/08/31/are-you-on-a-hedonic-treadmill/'); 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Revkin</a></address>  <div class="entry-content"> <p><a style="margin: 0pt auto; padding: 0px 6px; text-align: center; display: block;" id="aptureLink_aEhhQL6NmM" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090906131350/http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jmkw2qSpHsc"><img title="Herman Daly, Ecological Economics FAQs - Part 3" src="https://web.archive.org/web/20090906131350im_/http://i.ytimg.com/vi/jmkw2qSpHsc/0.jpg" style="border: 0px none ;" width="340px" height="285px"/></a></p> <p>Following the <a id="aptureLink_2tQvVY702L" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090906131350/http://dotearth.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/08/30/an-upside-to-the-consumption-chill/">Nobel laureate Kenneth Arrow</a>, Herman Daly has responded to my query about whether there is an upside to <a id="aptureLink_djS0Mef1nM" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090906131350/http://www.nytimes.com/2009/08/29/business/economy/29consumer.html?em">the recent consumption slowdown</a>, and to the broader question of whether humans can or should shift from their current growth-focused economic norms to <a id="aptureLink_ZEL0fxwjv2" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090906131350/http://www.nytimes.com/2005/10/04/science/04happ.html?ei=5090&en=a4c0250cf8714dca&ex=1286078400&partner=rssuserland&emc=rss&pagewanted=all">a new definition of progress</a>. Does he see a viable real-world path to his “steady state” vision of the economy?</p> <blockquote><p> Yes Andy, I do. And it is clear that the growth-driven path is not viable, and in all likelihood no longer even economic. The Classical Economists already laid it out long ago, especially <a id="aptureLink_5cByK0JiX4" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090906131350/http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John%20Stuart%20Mill">John Stuart Mill</a>. Recently the “real-world path” you refer to has been outlined by the British Sustainable Development Commission in their report “<a id="aptureLink_8j0GgnaDSl" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090906131350/http://www.sd-commission.org.uk/pages/redefining-prosperity.html">Prosperity Without Growth</a>” [Dr. Daly wrote the foreward]. Also the path for Canada has been carefully studied by Canadian economist Peter Victor in “<a id="aptureLink_VV93z4FiuE" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090906131350/http://www.ethicalmarkets.com/2009/02/18/managing-without-growth-slower-by-design-not-disaster-by-peter-victor/">Managing Without Growth: Slower by Design, Not Disaster</a>“. In addition see the C.A.S.S.E. statement on economic growth and its conflict with biodiversity preservation (see <a id="aptureLink_xglXXR4wN8" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090906131350/http://www.steadystate.org/">steadystate.org</a>) signed by many professional organizations and individuals, including Paul Ehrlich and I think E.O. Wilson. Will mainstream growth economists ever wake up? Maybe, maybe not. Keynes said, “We are capable of turning off the sun and the stars because they do not pay a dividend.” </p></blockquote> <p>I also asked him about my notion that the ongoing spike in human numbers and appetites is akin to <a id="aptureLink_0bb7yb4D8i" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090906131350/http://dotearth.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/08/07/puberty-on-the-scale-of-a-planet/">a testosterone-fueled teenager</a> going through puberty, and about what the species equivalent of adulthood might look like: <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090906131350/http://dotearth.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/08/31/daly-on/#more-7407" class="more-link">Read more…</a></p> </div> </div><div class="entry-meta"> <ul class="entry-tools"> <li class="comment-link"><a class="post-comment" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090906131350/http://community.nytimes.com/comments/dotearth.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/08/31/daly-on/"></a><script type="text/javascript"> // <![CDATA[ NYTD.blogsCRNRObj.setPostData('', 'https://web.archive.org/web/20090906131350/http://dotearth.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/08/31/daly-on/', 'Do We Have to Outgrow Growth?', 'https://web.archive.org/web/20090906131350/http://community.nytimes.com/comments/dotearth.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/08/31/daly-on/', 'https://web.archive.org/web/20090906131350/http://dotearth.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/08/31/daly-on/'); 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Revkin">Andrew C. Revkin</a></address>  <div class="entry-content"> <p>Over the weekend I queried some economists about the evidence pointing to a substantial, and probably sustained, <a id="aptureLink_gQB4EsD66O" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090906131350/http://www.nytimes.com/2009/08/29/business/economy/29consumer.html?em">cooling of consumers’ spending habits</a>. Could this be a signal that 250 years after Adam Smith warned about the “<a id="aptureLink_8mpBzGdoaF" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090906131350/http://dotearth.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/02/06/the-endless-pursuit-of-unnecessary-things/">endless pursuit of unnecessary things</a>” that can emerge in a growth-focused economy, consumers are poised to redefine <strong>the good life</strong>, shifting a bit from the <a id="aptureLink_8ZEBWo86Ni" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090906131350/http://www.thestreet.com/story/10414089/1/the-five-most-glamorous-pools-in-las-vegas.html?puc=yahoofin">Vegas definition</a> to <a id="aptureLink_UVq8OcHxkb" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090906131350/http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/plato-ethics/">that of Plato</a>?</p> <p>In my query, I mentioned how <a id="aptureLink_gvrRUVlt3r" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090906131350/http://www.publicpolicy.umd.edu/facstaff/faculty/Daly.html">Herman Daly</a> and others have long proposed that a transition is possible from the <a id="aptureLink_BK7t3mB6mp" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090906131350/http://dotearth.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/10/13/growth-economics-on-a-finite-planet/">perpetual-growth model of economic progress</a> to more of a “<a id="aptureLink_UBJky4KeI9" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090906131350/http://www.theoildrum.com/node/3941">steady-state economy</a>.” After all, the thinking goes, in the long run humanity’s spiking numbers and appetites are bound to hit a wall on a planet with finite resources and a limited capacity to absorb our effluents.</p> <p>Alluding to a recent post, I asked, “Are we, in economic terms, still in <a id="aptureLink_RbOOsnoBHl" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090906131350/http://dotearth.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/08/07/puberty-on-the-scale-of-a-planet/">a kind of pubescent growth spurt</a> (with fossil fuels substituting for testosterone), and if so, what comes with growing up?”</p> <p>The first economist to respond was <a id="aptureLink_LE8jMW3rLi" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090906131350/http://fsi.stanford.edu/people/kennethjarrow/">Kenneth J. Arrow, the Nobel laureate</a> from Stanford University. I’ll be adding more voices here as they come in. Here’s Dr. Arrow, who is not ready to abandon growth:</p> <blockquote><p> One can’t give a simple answer to what is in fact a complex question. In this case, there are varying time perspectives. One can be concerned with the recovery from the current serious recession, a matter of one or two years; one can be concerned with the economic development of the United States and of the world in the next decade; and one can be concerned with the long-run evolution of a world of limited resources, the matter to which you give stress in your address to Professor Daly and in your reference to the puberty of the economic world. I will briefly address each of these time perspectives. </p></blockquote> <p> <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090906131350/http://dotearth.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/08/30/an-upside-to-the-consumption-chill/#more-7379" class="more-link">Read more…</a></p> </div> </div><div class="entry-meta"> <ul class="entry-tools"> <li class="comment-link"><a class="post-comment" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090906131350/http://community.nytimes.com/comments/dotearth.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/08/30/an-upside-to-the-consumption-chill/"></a><script type="text/javascript"> // <![CDATA[ NYTD.blogsCRNRObj.setPostData('', 'https://web.archive.org/web/20090906131350/http://dotearth.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/08/30/an-upside-to-the-consumption-chill/', 'An Upside to the Consumption Chill?', 'https://web.archive.org/web/20090906131350/http://community.nytimes.com/comments/dotearth.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/08/30/an-upside-to-the-consumption-chill/', 'https://web.archive.org/web/20090906131350/http://dotearth.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/08/30/an-upside-to-the-consumption-chill/'); 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So we’re pleased to present a photograph of a snow leopard, taken by a camera trap in the Wakhan Corridor in northeastern Afghanistan. (Here’s <a id="aptureLink_uHFHX497Qo" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090906131350/http://dotearth.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/06/09/afghanistan-protects-33-species/">more on camera traps and Afghanistan’s elusive wildlife</a>.)</p> <p>Camera traps are used by conservationists to document the presence of animals that because of their rarity, behavior or other factors would otherwise be seldom seen. The basic trap consists of a camera and a means of triggering it — often an infrared device or some other motion sensor.</p> <p>Workers try to set the traps in areas the target animal is likely to pass through — en route to a water or food source, for example. And the sensor is calibrated so that smaller animals or swaying tree limbs shouldn’t trigger it. Despite all this, camera traps don’t always capture their quarry. And even when they do, the subject is sometimes out of focus, or half out of the frame or plagued by red eye. And sometimes you get a fabulous shot of the animal’s derriere. </p> <p>This photograph, though, is spectacular (if a trifle cockeyed). The trap was set up by workers with the Wildlife Conservation Society, the people who run the Bronx Zoo and undertake conservation projects around the world. 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For some of them, nanotechnology has been a hot topic. And according to a report this week by the <a id="aptureLink_3EYwpa53B9" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090906131350/http://www.nanotechproject.org/">Project on Emerging Nanotechnologies</a>, there is more than ever for them to worry about. </p> <p>The project, a partnership begun in 2005 by the Wilson Center and the Pew Charitable Trusts, says there are now more than 1,000 products made with nanoparticles — substances engineered on the scale of a billionth of a meter, 1/10,000 the width of a human hair or smaller.</p> <p>Nanoparticles are turning up in all kinds of things — toothpaste, sunscreen, tennis rackets, non-stick cookware and even, the center says, tiny wearable sensors that monitor your posture. (The PEN nanotech inventory’s latest update is <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090906131350/http://www.nanotechproject.org/inventories/consumer">here</a>.)</p> <p>Is there any evidence these substances pose any kind of serious threat? The answer seems to be “not yet.” But in a report <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090906131350/http://www.nytimes.com/2008/12/11/science/11nano.html?_r=1&scp=1&sq=cornelia+dean+effort+on+material&st=nyt">that I wrote about last year</a>, an expert panel convened by the National Research Council sharply criticized the federal government’s efforts to identify possible health or environmental risks of nanotechnology.</p> <p> <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090906131350/http://dotearth.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/08/27/nano-toothpaste/#more-7351" class="more-link">Read more…</a></p> </div> </div><div class="entry-meta"> <ul class="entry-tools"> <li class="comment-link"><a class="post-comment" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090906131350/http://community.nytimes.com/comments/dotearth.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/08/27/nano-toothpaste/"></a><script type="text/javascript"> // <![CDATA[ NYTD.blogsCRNRObj.setPostData('', 'https://web.archive.org/web/20090906131350/http://dotearth.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/08/27/nano-toothpaste/', 'Nano Toothpaste', 'https://web.archive.org/web/20090906131350/http://community.nytimes.com/comments/dotearth.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/08/27/nano-toothpaste/', 'https://web.archive.org/web/20090906131350/http://dotearth.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/08/27/nano-toothpaste/'); 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Tilling and other practices leave farmland vulnerable to erosion; precious topsoil is literally being washed away.</p> <p>Over the years, the issue has been framed in many ways. <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090906131350/http://www.icue.com/portal/site/iCue/flatview/?cuecard=40325">A 1984 NBC News report</a>, for instance, described the amount of topsoil lost to erosion as enough to fill the Houston Astrodome 34,000 times over. More straightforward estimates suggest that worldwide, some 25 billion tons of valuable agricultural soil is eroded every year.</p> <p><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090906131350/http://www.nature.com/ngeo/journal/vaop/ncurrent/abs/ngeo616.html">A study in Nature Geoscience</a> puts the problem in another way, one that perhaps makes the situation seem even more dire. Conventional farming, the study’s authors write, erodes farmland at rates comparable to what nature does in some of the most rugged parts of the planet.</p> <p>“We’re discovering that we as humans, in our agricultural practices, are actually eroding the land at a rate similar to the biggest glaciers and rivers in the world,” said the study’s lead author, Michelle N. Koppes of the University of British Columbia. “Humans are as powerful an agent of geomorphic change.”</p> <p>So what’s wrong with that? 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Finding enough to fuel industrialized economies and pull developing countries out of poverty without overheating the climate is a central challenge of the 21st century.</p> <p/> <ul class="refer"> <li><a title="africa's energy gap" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090906131350/http://www.nytimes.com/2007/07/29/world/africa/29power.html">Africa's Energy Gap</a></li> <li><a title="the power of green" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090906131350/http://www.nytimes.com/2007/04/15/magazine/15green.t.html">The Power of Green</a></li> <li><a title="the energy challenge series" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090906131350/http://www.nytimes.com/ref/science/earth/energy.html">The Energy Challenge series</a></li> <li><a title="energy quest" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090906131350/http://dotearth.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/04/06/how-to-spark-an-energy-quest/">How to Spark an Energy Quest</a></li> </ul> </div> </div> <div class="subColB"> <div class="entry"> <h6 class="kicker">Climate</h6> <h5>The Arctic in Transition</h5> <p class="summary"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090906131350/http://www.nytimes.com/2007/10/02/science/earth/02arct.html"><img alt="arctic melt" src="https://web.archive.org/web/20090906131350im_/http://graphics8.nytimes.com/images/2007/10/16/science/iceberg.165span.jpg" class="w165"/></a>Enshrined in history as an untouchable frontier, the Arctic is being transformed by significant warming, a rising thirst for oil and gas, and international tussles over shipping routes and seabed resources.</p> <ul class="refer"> <li><a title="the big melt series" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090906131350/http://topics.nytimes.com/top/news/science/series/thebigmelt/">The Big Melt series</a></li> <li><a title="Postcards from the Arctic" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090906131350/http://www.nytimes.com/pages/science/sciencereport/">Postcards from the Arctic</a></li> <li><a title="global warming at the learning network" 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calamities like earthquakes and drought.</p> <ul class="refer"> <li><a title="disasters" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090906131350/http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/subjects/d/disasters/">Times Topics: Disasters</a></li> <li><a title="Thirsty Giant" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090906131350/http://www.nytimes.com/2006/09/29/world/asia/29water.html">Thirsty Giant, India and water</a></li> <li><a title="The Future of Calamity" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090906131350/http://www.nytimes.com/2005/01/02/weekinreview/02revk.html ">The Future of Calamity</a></li> </ul> </div> </div> <div class="subColB"> <div class="entry"> <h6 class="kicker">Biology</h6> <h5>Life, Wild and Managed</h5> <p class="summary"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090906131350/http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/subjects/i/ivory/index.html"><img alt="wildlife" src="https://web.archive.org/web/20090906131350im_/http://graphics8.nytimes.com/images/2007/10/17/science/biology.165span.jpg" class="w165"/></a>Earth’s veneer of millions of plant and animal species is a vital resource that will need careful tending as human populations and their demands for land, protein and fuels grow.</p> <ul class="refer"> <li><a title="managing planet earth special section" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090906131350/http://www.nytimes.com/2002/08/20/science/earth/20MANA.html">Managing Planet Earth</a> </li> <li><a title="South America Seeks to Fill the World’s Table" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090906131350/http://www.nytimes.com/2004/12/12/international/americas/12brazil.html ">South America Seeks to Fill the World’s Table</a></li> <li><a title="Tracking the Imperiled Bluefin" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090906131350/http://www.nytimes.com/2005/05/03/science/earth/03tuna.html">Tracking the Imperiled Bluefin</a></li> <li><a title="A Movable Beast" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090906131350/http://www.nytimes.com/2007/07/24/science/24pyth.html ">A Movable Beast</a></li> </ul> </div> </div> </div> </div><div class="box module"><h4>Slide Show</h4><div class="entry"> <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090906131350/http://www.nytimes.com/packages/html/science/20071024_DOTEARTH_FEATURE/index.html"><img alt="pollution" src="https://web.archive.org/web/20090906131350im_/http://graphics8.nytimes.com/images/2007/10/24/science/dotearth165.jpg" class="callout w165"/></a> <h5><a title="Slideshow" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090906131350/http://www.nytimes.com/packages/html/science/20071024_DOTEARTH_FEATURE/index.html">A Planet in Flux</a></h5> <p class="summary">Andrew C. 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World Bank Group">Private Sector Develoment Blog</a></li> </ul> </div> <div class="entry clearfix"> <h6 class="kicker">Media and Environment</h6> <ul class="refer odd"> <li><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090906131350/http://www.cjr.org/the_observatory" title="The Observatory (CJR)">The Observatory (CJR)</a></li> <li><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090906131350/http://www.cejournal.net/" title="CEJournal">CEJournal (U.C., Boulder)</a></li> <li><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090906131350/http://www.inkstain.net/fleck/" title="Inkstain">Inkstain</a></li> <li><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090906131350/http://developingradio.org/" title="Developing Radio Partners">Developing Radio</a></li> <li><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090906131350/http://www.earthjournalism.org/" title="Earth Journalism Network">EarthJournalism.org</a></li> </ul> <ul class="refer even"> <li><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090906131350/http://ksjtracker.mit.edu/" title="Knight Science Journalism Tracker">Knight Science Journalism Tracker</a></li> <li><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090906131350/http://scienceblogs.com/framing-science/" title="Framing Science">Framing Science</a></li> <li><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090906131350/http://www.yaleclimatemediaforum.org/" title="Yale Climate Media Forum Home Page">Yale Climate Media Forum</a></li> </ul> </div> <div class="entry clearfix"> <h6 class="kicker">Environment and Sustainability Voices</h6> <ul class="refer odd"> <li><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090906131350/http://www.worldchanging.com/" title="WorldChanging: Tools, Models and Ideas for Building a Bright Green Future">Worldchanging</a></li> <li><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090906131350/http://gristmill.grist.org/" title="Gristmill: The environmental news blog | Grist">Daily Grist</a></li> <li><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090906131350/http://green.yahoo.com/" title="Yahoo! Green">Yahoo! 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