Here is your Thursday Morning Linkage!
- Algal bloom kills 240 of Florida’s 5000 manatees (cause of death: natural toxin)
- Madonna smacked down by Malawi government after her recent visit
- Shale gas and methane leaks, greener than coal but by how much?
- Obama tells donors that the politics of the environment are hard, hints at what he might do on Keystone XL pipeline
- BP is beyond “Beyond Petroleum,” sells wind power interests
- Nicholas Lemann asks: what happened to the environmental movement?
- New bird flu cases from China: how worried should we be?
- Tom Bollyky: Why does Gleevec, a leukemia drug that costs $70,000 per year in the United States, cost just $2,500 in India?
- Obama budget proposes buying about half of food aid locally in affected countries and regions rather than from American farmers, a big shift
- American Al-Shabaab and his curious relationship with counter-terrorism community
- GDELT event dataset is out, publicly available, and may revolutionize quantitative conflict studies (some discussion of its origins from Will Moore)
- One of my SXSW finds, The Lone Bellow, at one of NPR’s final Tiny Desk Concerts before the move to a new building
Joshua Busby is a Professor in the LBJ School of Public Affairs at the University of Texas-Austin. From 2021-2023, he served as a Senior Advisor for Climate at the U.S. Department of Defense. His most recent book is States and Nature: The Effects of Climate Change on Security (Cambridge, 2023). He is also the author of Moral Movements and Foreign Policy (Cambridge, 2010) and the co-author, with Ethan Kapstein, of AIDS Drugs for All: Social Movements and Market Transformations (Cambridge, 2013). His main research interests include transnational advocacy and social movements, international security and climate change, global public health and HIV/ AIDS, energy and environmental policy, and U.S. foreign policy.
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