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Greenfyre's: Daily Show pooches Superfreaknomics interview, big time
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Jon Stewart frightens audience by suggesting Conservation isn't the only way out of the world's problems http://bit.ly/2kAzKk 11/3/2009 |
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steve levitt on superfreakanomics..!!! http://bit.ly/4mbxXQ 10/30/2009 |
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here's the link; it really is one of Jon Stewart's worst moments: http://bit.ly/2kAzKk 10/30/2009 |
Daily Show pooches Superfreaknomics interview, big time
Greenfyre's —
... Stewart both pitching and catching for Levitt.
Brad Johnson has done a very nice summary of the Superfreaknomics issue and the interview here (reposted here and here) The issue has been covered on this blog here, here, and here, while Brian D continues to do an amazing job tracking the many, many critiques here.
If you want to watch the Interview you can see it here for Canada, and here for the United States.
What happened?
As Johnson notes, The Daily ...
Save us, [insert techno-fix here], you’re our only hope!
Grist - the Latest from Grist —
... Don’t worry about climate change and world hunger—this lady’s got your back!Watching SuperFreakonomics author Steve Levitt sitting next to Jon Stewart as they shook their heads in disbelief that everyone wasn’t on the climate change/geo-engineering bandwagon (It’s easy! it’s cheap! We know it works!) depressed me no end. It seems like every challenge we face now has an “easy” technological silver bullet that will spare us sacrifice or even change. GMOs will end hunger. Geo-engineering will solve climate change. A ...
Contrarian Chic: Why can’t the media tell the difference between an attack on false ‘conventional’ wisdom and an attack on genuine scientific wisdom?
Climate Progress —
... The Daily Show With Jon Stewart
Mon – Thurs 11p / 10c
Steven Levitt
www.thedailyshow.com ...
Eco-Beat, 10/29
Green Daily —
... " has drawn a lot of fire from environmentalists, and Jon Stewart doesn't quite understand why. Check out this video of Jon and Steve discussing the controversial schemes to cool the planet with climate engineering. ...
