Last fall semester was crazy: trying to provide my students with quality instruction in a new format as well as finishing up a couple of research projects, including this two year project on child health and this one on COVID co-authored by two other TU Econ profs, on COVID. (Disclosure: Prof. Shrestha was the heavy hitter on this one!)
Anyway, all semester when I saw an article related to Resource Economics I didn't have time to make a post, so here are a few all together.
* Fishing on the high seas only makes economic sense when it is subsidized.
* A relatively unknown cost of CO2 (a cause of climate change): decreases in vitamins produced by plants in high CO2 areas, such as this study showing decreased amounts of vitamin B and iron.
* A review on the causes and consequences of food loss and waste. Another in the same publication finds that the most waste comes from the foodservice sector: probably not true in 2020! Just a guess....
* The Bakken shale in North Dakota has been productive in terms of both natural gas and oil, but the costs to the area are piling up: the state has had to use money earmarked for COVID relief to plug some mines. Here's hoping the benefits to ND outweigh the costs.
* And now for something completely different: more energy may be available from geothermal sources than was previously known. That's good news for everyone but recent grads hoping to get into the oil industry.
