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The Crucial Years

Bill McKibben
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From Bad to Better

I have been open about feeling a little exhausted and despairing of late (if by open, one means publishing an essay about it on the Sunday oped page of the Times). Part of it is the ever-growing sense that AI is out-of-control (listen to Ez...

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A human environmentalism

This is a digression of sorts this time, but only of sorts—a singular edition of this newsletter that won’t be repeated often, but that I felt as if I needed to get off my chest. I’ll return to regular programming soon, with updates on a tu...

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Reform or Regression?

I’m bleary-eyed on a westbound jet, spewing carbon to campaign for House seats—if you can join Third Actors in Bakersfield over the weekend, please do (though be warned that there’s yet another huge heat wave building, and the forecast is f...

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Amazon Crime

Return with me now to the thrilling days of yesteryear. In 2020, Jeff Bezos announced that Amazon had paid a few hundred million dollars for the naming rights to the new hockey rink in Seattle. But instead of calling it Amazon Arena, he ins...

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A Sunny Week in New York

My watch, which tells me lots of things I don’t necessarily want to know (I scored a depressing 56 out of 100 on my sleep last night) informs me I’ve taken 112,000 steps around the city of New York in the last four days, not to mention a co...

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