Misinformation about food and climate change is everywhere. This edition of Conducive Magazine helps readers decipher how environmental myths became environmental “truths”.
Why People are Living in Denial
Kari Marie Norgaard helps us understand how and why societies fail to act on climate change in Living in Denial: Climate Change, Emotions, and Everyday Life (MIT Press, 2011)
How Scientists Became “Merchants of Doubt”
Naomi Oreskes and Erik Conway uncover the history of a small group of Cold War scientists and advisers who battled anything, including scientific research, that might threaten their vision of American free enterprise in Merchants of Doubt: How a Handful of Scientists Obscured the Truth on Issues from Tobacco Smoke to Global Warming (Bloomsbury Press, 2010).
The Revolution is in the Dirt
Writer Nicki Lisa Cole argues that much of the problem with food habits in the United States “is largely a result of the concentration of power in the hands of buyers and multinational supermarket chains” and provides healthy, local alternatives to eating fast food and getting necessary fruits and vegetables.
A Big Step for Science, a Huge Step for Argentina
Claudio Fernández returned to Argentina in 2006 with a clear goal in mind: to continue his research on neurodegenerative disorders in the country where he was born, grew up and studied.
