Urban ethics and theory

William Nordhaus in The American Scholar, describing how people who have used his work to portray him as a climate change skeptic are wrong.

I think he’s a bit wrong in his argument about whether CO2 is technically a pollutant, but he’s not a lawyer (neither am I), and I think that whether CO2 makes you sick directly really doesn’t matter to the policy problems we’ve got here.

Brandon Fuller and Matt Kahn discuss the possibilities for charter cities as a means for adapting to climate change over at Vox.