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To Fight Climate Change, We Need an Apollo Program for Politics, Not Technology

July 22, 2019 By Erik Curren

Apollo 11 take off

The success of Apollo 11 flipped the American public from skeptics to fans. The climate movement needs its own moon shot moment to build public support today.

Filed Under: The Solar Patriot Tagged With: Apollo Program

Climate Crisis Shouldn’t be about Mere Money

June 4, 2019 By Erik Curren

The Enemy Laughs When You Loaf

I was so pleased to see a piece called “Climate change is our World War III. It needs a bold response” today by the venerable Nobel Prize winning economist Joseph Stiglitz. A great all-around mind, Stiglitz brings an economist’s wide take on money, stuff and people to the question of whether the world can afford […]

Filed Under: The Solar Patriot Tagged With: Joseph Stiglitz, Naomi Klein

The #1 Easiest Way to Fight Climate Change

May 23, 2019 By Erik Curren

carbon fee and dividend

As long as energy prices remain low, you can forget about asking hundreds of millions of American consumers to drive less or turn down their thermostat. A few committed environmentalists will conserve energy just because it’s the right thing to do. But experience has shown that for the average American, morality is a poor motivator […]

Filed Under: The Solar Patriot Tagged With: carbon fee and dividend, fossil fuel subsidies

Bill Nye Loses It on Climate Change — and It’s Hilarious

May 21, 2019 By Erik Curren

Bill Nye gets angry about climate crisis

Maybe you think of Bill Nye, known on TV as the Science Guy, as a genial explainer of how things work for kids and the adults who know them. But for years Nye has also been speaking out on climate science, trying to get his viewers to take the climate crisis seriously and especially not […]

Filed Under: The Solar Patriot Tagged With: anger, Bill Nye

Why You’ll Never Win an Argument with a Climate Science Denier

May 20, 2019 By Erik Curren

hockey stick graph of climate warming

Have you ever found yourself arguing, perhaps on Facebook, with somebody who won’t accept that climate change is a real problem and that it’s caused by humans, primarily by us burning fossil fuels? I’ve been in many exchanges with the mostly white, age 50+ men who cite their own alt-facts to dispute the fundamentals of […]

Filed Under: The Solar Patriot Tagged With: climate skeptics

Can Talking to Strangers Save America?

May 10, 2019 By Erik Curren

Lindsay and Erik Curren with Trey in RVA

In promoting The Solar Patriot, I’ve been talking to a lot of strangers recently. Of course, I’ve met a lot of new people while giving book talks. That’s how it started. But then, it got weird. And great. Let me explain. An Icebreaker I began giving book talks in my George Washington outfit, just like […]

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