In the previous article, I explained how in any game, it is reasonable to assume that a stable outcome will be a Nash Equilibrium. Today, I will show how it is impossible for rational people like us to save the planet by cooperating to stop using carbon fuels.
Currently, as things stand, carbon fuels definitely have [...]

On July 8, oilman T. Boone Pickens launched a personal initiative to promote wind power as a primary renewable energy source for the United States. Pickens wants the next U.S. president to lead the nation to 20% wind power by 2018 by tapping a “wind corridor” that runs from the Northern Midwest all the way [...]

There is a common misconception that true adherents of the free market – libertarians – are “pro-big business” and do not care about the environment. This came up recently on the Rush Limbaugh show as he admonished libertarians to explain to Bob Barr, the Libertarian Party’s presidential hopeful, “what libertarianism is.”
Now Bob Barr has many [...]

An Elucidation of Nash Equilibriums as a lead up to the Prisoner’s Dilemma, which in turn demonstrates how we can never cooperate to save the planet from Global Warming.

I admit my heart sank when I read the news that on June 25 the United States Supreme Court reversed the $2.5 billion in punitive damages awarded to victims of the 1989 Exxon Valdez oil spill, the worst and most damaging oil spill in history. The court decided that over the course of 19 years [...]

In 1798 Coleridge wrote, “water, water, everywhere, [but not a] drop to drink”. By 2100 this may become “water, water, everywhere, but not a fish to eat”. Carbon dioxide (CO2), a greenhouse gas, may be doing more than warming our atmosphere, it may be acidifying our oceans. According to Dr. Richard Feely, an Oceanographer with [...]

There’s only so much many companies can do to reduce pollution. A steel smelter can scrub all it wants, and it’s still going to produce pollution. There’s no way around it. Pollution is an inevitable byproduct for many industries.
In order to look better on paper, companies offset their pollution by supporting [...]