Climate Change

What if the Arctic melts, and we lose the great white shield? Interview with environmental policy expert Durwood Zaelke

By Dan Drollette Jr, August 30, 2019

In this interview, Durwood Zaelke, president of the Institute for Governance & Sustainable Development, outlines the climate change problem in the Arctic, tells of the increasing speed with which the ice is melting, and outlines some possible solutions, ranging from relatively benign approaches to methods that call for increasingly more intrusive tinkering with the planet. This article is free-access through October 31, 2019. 

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