1. Gregg Edmund Easterbrook was born on March 3,1953 and is an American writer and a contributing editor of both The New Republic and The Atlantic Monthly.
23 Facts About Gregg Easterbrook
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Gregg Easterbrook has authored ten books, and writes for op-ed pages, magazines, and journals.
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Gregg Easterbrook was born in Buffalo, New York, the son of George Easterbrook, a dentist, and Vimy Hoover Easterbrook, a teacher.
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Gregg Easterbrook has a bachelor's degree in political science from Colorado College and a master's in journalism from Northwestern University.
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In 1979, Gregg Easterbrook became an editor of The Washington Monthly.
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Gregg Easterbrook has lectured at the Aspen Institute and Chautauqua Institution, and spoken at many colleges.
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Gregg Easterbrook writes the eclectic football column "Tuesday Morning Quarterback", originally published by Slate in 2000, and then on ESPN.
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Gregg Easterbrook called the environmental movement "among the most welcome social developments of the twentieth century," but criticized environmentalists who promoted what he saw as overly pessimistic views that did not accept signs of improvement and progress.
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Gregg Easterbrook was accused of mischaracterizing data concerning environmental health, using faulty logic, and being overly optimistic.
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Until 2006, Gregg Easterbrook was skeptical about whether global warming was a serious manmade problem, pointing out several times that even the National Academy of Sciences had expressed doubt about whether global warming was caused by humans.
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Gregg Easterbrook publicly modified his position in 2006 as a result of scientific developments.
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Gregg Easterbrook says that greenhouse gas emissions must be curbed in order to win the fight against climate change.
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Gregg Easterbrook anticipates that climate change could benefit some regions, even while causing drastic problems elsewhere.
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Gregg Easterbrook has written three novels: This Magic Moment, The Here and Now and The Leading Indicators.
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Gregg Easterbrook argues that this has occurred due to choice anxiety and abundance denial.
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Gregg Easterbrook's proposed remedy is to make our lives more meaningful by doing good while living well.
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Gregg Easterbrook's book Sonic Boom: Globalization at Mach Speed asserts that globalization has only just begun and is a good thing to look forward to.
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Gregg Easterbrook was a longtime critic of the Space Shuttle program.
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Gregg Easterbrook has been critical of the International Space Station, because of its expense and the feasibility of conducting the same experiments on Earth instead of in orbit.
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Gregg Easterbrook has called a proposed crewed mission to Mars "ridiculously impractical", and has written that the rationale for a proposed permanent base on the Moon is closely tied to pork barrel politics.
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Gregg Easterbrook has supported other NASA projects such as using uncrewed space probes and protecting Earth from asteroids.
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Gregg Easterbrook had a blog at The New Republic Online, until mid-2004.
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Gregg Easterbrook is the brother of Judge Frank H Easterbrook and Neil Easterbrook, English professor at Texas Christian University.