The opening of my latest column at EveryJoe:
“Some parts of the world really are environmental Hells. They are dirty and depleted, making them unhealthy and economically unsustainable. We can argue about the severity of various places’ problems, but I want to focus on another aspect of the debate: determining accurately the causes of the degradation so we can focus productively on finding solutions.
“Unfortunately, much public discussion is characterized by over-the-top rhetoric in combination with ignorance of the alternatives and a latching onto the first plausible hypothesis.
“If we ask Whom to blame?, the most commonly-cited culprit is The Greedy Nature of Man …” [Read more here.]
Previous column in The Good Life series: No Reformation for Islam, Please.