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A Grim Warning from Science
Bebeto Matthews/AP PhotoFlooded streets under the Manhattan Bridge in Brooklyn, New York, October 29, 2012 One of the things that makes Sandy different from Katrina is that it’s a relatively clean...
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To the Editors: In his review of Energy for Future Presidents, Bill McKibben failed to disclose his rather severe conflict of interest [NYR, October 11]. In Energy I am properly harsh on his 350...
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The Methane Beneath Our Feet
Matt Mawson/CorbisA temperature gauge at a gas powered electricity plant, Las Vegas, Nevada Insouciant New Yorkers—here is another pending disaster to shrug off with characteristic brio! There is a...
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Pope Francis: The Cry of the Earth
Donatella Giagnori/epa/CorbisPope Francis at the Vatican, September 1, 2014 The old conceit that the president has a “bully pulpit” needs updating; it’s clear that the pulpit at St. Peter’s Basilica is...
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Climate Change: A Warning from Islam
Paolo Pellegrin/Magnum PhotosZiglab Lake, Jordan, 2009 On August 19, a convocation of some sixty leading Muslim clerics and religious scholars from around the planet, spurred by the growing siege of...
View ArticleThe Koch Brothers’ New Brand
In 2011, a blogger impersonating billionaire David Koch got through the switchboard at the Wisconsin State Capitol and was connected to Governor Scott Walker, who took time out from battling with the...
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Pause! We Can Go Back!
Martine Franck/Magnum PhotosThe singer Colette Magny at her house in Tarn-et-Garonne, southwest France, 1982 Everyone I know seems a little ashamed of the compulsive phone-checking, but it is, circa...
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The Americans We Need
Max Whittaker/ReutersA Syrian refugee and her family in the apartment complex where they now live, Sacramento, California, November 16, 2015 As tens of thousands of people across the United States...
View ArticleWhere Are the Smartphones?
To the Editors: Bill McKibben in his review of David Sax’s The Revenge of Analog [NYR, February 9] rightly points out some of the emotional and intellectual limitations of the digital world many of us...
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Seeing Red? Think Blue
Andrew Caballero-Reynolds/AFP/Getty ImagesA protester celebrating President Barack Obama’s decision to block the Keystone XL oil pipeline, Washington, D.C., November 6, 2015 On Friday evening, the...
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A Very Grim Forecast
Diane BurkoDiane Burko: Grinnell Mt. Gould #1, #2, #3, #4, 2009; based on USGS photos of Grinnell Glacier at Glacier National Park, Montana, between 1938 and 2006. Burko’s work is on view in...
View ArticleThe Nuclear Option
To the Editors: In your article “A Very Grim Forecast” [NYR, November 22] about global warming you state that vast quantities of renewable technology have been deployed in China and India. However, you...
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A Future Without Fossil Fuels?
Mitch Epstein/Sikkema Jenkins & Co.Amos Coal Power Plant, Raymond City, West Virginia, 2004; photograph by Mitch Epstein from his ‘American Power’ series “Kingsmill Bond” certainly sounds like a...
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The Pentagon’s Outsized Part in the Climate Fight
Photo DigitalGlobe via Getty ImagesA satellite image of the Pentagon, Washington, D.C., August 2, 2002 I have often been asked, at the end of a talk on climate change, if the problem couldn’t be solved...
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My Land, Your Land
Underwood & UnderwoodTheodore Roosevelt and John Muir, Glacier Point, Yosemite National Park, California, 1903 The right-wing effort to privatize or obliterate many of the institutions of our...
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A Very Hot Year
Brook Mitchell/Stringer/Getty ImagesWildfires near the suburbs of Canberra, Australia, January 2020 This year began with huge bushfires in southeastern Australia that drove one community after another...
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Thanks to Climate Divestment, Big Oil Finally Runs Out of Gas
John van Hasselt/Corbis via Getty ImagesAn abandoned Standard Oil gas station, Tonalea, Arizona, 2008 People used to worry that the fossil-fuel industry would hit “peak oil” and we’d run out of crude....
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130 Degrees
Illustration by Anders Nilsen So now we have some sense of what it’s like: a full-on global-scale crisis, one that disrupts everything. Normal life—shopping for food, holding a wedding, going to work,...
View ArticleBiden’s Most Daunting Adversary
If Joe Biden wins the presidency, he will be faced with a hundred pressing problems and a thousand things to repair from the Trump years. Nevertheless, he will have little choice but to concentrate on...
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It’s Not Science Fiction
Illustration by Anders Nilsen The prolific science-fiction writer Kim Stanley Robinson, who is at heart an optimist, opens his newest novel, The Ministry for the Future, with a long set piece as bleak...
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