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The Crucial Years

Bill McKibben
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Scilencing

An indelible image from the March for Science in 2017, during Trump 1.

There are moments when it feels like the president’s attention (as occasionally happens when we age) just keeps getting narrower and narrower—the things he really care...

9 days ago
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Just my imagination

It’s probably because I spent the weekend with the mensch and novelist Kim Stanley Robinson—nice long hike on Saturday, and then listening to his superb Middlebury College commencement speech on Sunday—but I came away thinking more about th...

14 days ago
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A Question of Margin

Northern Somalia, 1986, back in the, um, good old days when those fleeing drought and famine at least found some modicum of international aid. And then came Musk.

One way to think about the climate crisis is that we are systematically redu...

22 days ago
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Everyone Knows It's Windy

Dragon kite above Tiananmen Square, Beijing

Those of us who came up in a different age still occasionally harbor the belief that facts, truth, science matters; that it hasn’t all just vanished into a tweeting flash of nonsense. In service...

a month ago
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Uncanny Speed

Our world seems to me to be moving very very fast these days—often that’s because of the feral energy of the Trump White House, feverishly trying to do the wrong thing on as many fronts as possible. In the last few cycles have come the news...

a month ago
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