Columns about Responding to Climate Change

Erik Devereux is a columnist for the online edition of the PA Times, a publication of the American Society for Public Administration. 

Erik has published several columns related to the challenges posed by climate change including a four-part series that touches on many themes other experts now are exploring in much greater detail. Another series specifically discusses how the misplaced emphasis on recycling plastic is undermining efforts to address climate change.

Here are links to his columns:

• "It's Time for Project Earth" (10/11/2016)

Four-Part Series of Columns on a Pragmatic Approach to Climate Change

• "Part 1 - Choose a Fact-Based Strategy" (8/26/2021)
• "Part 2 - Solve the Governance Problem" (9/22/2021)
• "Part 3 - Demand Gross Carbon Reductions Every Year" (10/20/2021)
• "Part 4 - Invest in Rebuilding the Electricity Infrastructure" (12/19/2021)

Five-Part Series on Plastic Recycling vs Climate Change

• "Part 1 - A Road Paved with Good Intentions" (11/18/2022)
• "Part 2 - Worshiping False Idols" (12/16/2022)
• "Part 3 - The Good, The Bad, and the Ugly" (1/23/2023)
• "Part 4 - Seduced by Greenwashing" (2/24/2023)
• "Part 5 - Pragmatic About Plastics" (3/24/2023)