When money isn't enough
This past week, I attended the NCSE conference in Washington DC. This year's theme focused on the " Energy-Water-Food Nexus ." The Nexus is a focused effort on a specific aspect of resilience, sustainability, systems analysis or whatever the buzz word was before that. At the heart of society is food, energy, and water and if one system crumbles then the larger system collapses. One man in the audience, pointed out that food, energy, water leaves out air which of course is integral to society. But air, doesn't have a whole lot of infrastructure and the focus seemed to be on necessary systems that also have infrastructure. In any case, one of the keynote speakers, argued that the Chinese government has been more encouraging to environmental litigation. I have no idea what is really meant by more encouraging or if it is necessarily interesting that China is doing this. However, his point was that China encourages environmental protec...