The Slime Machine Targeting Dozens of Biden Nominees In an escalation of partisan warfare, a little-known dark-money group is trying to thwart the President’s entire slate. by: Jane Mayer, The NewYorker The American Accountability Foundation has undermined the likes of Ketanji Brown Jackson, but it’s also gone after relatively obscure political appointees whose public profiles... Continue Reading →
The climate apocalypse is coming. To prepare for it, we need to admit that we can’t prevent it. . “There is infinite hope,” Kafka tells us, “only not for us.” This is a fittingly mystical epigram from a writer whose characters strive for ostensibly reachable goals and, tragically or amusingly, never manage to get any... Continue Reading →
What If We Stopped Pretending?
If the province’s oil is dug up and burned, it will be calculably harder to limit the damage from climate change. Some weeks ago, the government of Alberta wrote to me—and apparently to a number of other environmentalists and environmental groups. We are all subjects of an “anti-Alberta energy inquiry,” and have the right to... Continue Reading →
We Love You, Alberta—Just Not Your Tar Sands
It’s Not the Heat—It’s the Humanity | Bill McKibben | The New Yorker Magazine Rising air temperatures remind us that our bodies have real limits. It’s hard to change the outcome of the climate crisis by individual action: we’re past the point where we can alter the carbon math one electric vehicle at a time,... Continue Reading →
a crucial ‘Must-Read’ climate related article… (June 23rd, 2021)
If one wanted a basic rule of thumb for dealing with the climate crisis, it would be: stop burning things. Human beings have made use of combustion for a very long time, ever since the first campfires cooked the first animals for dinner, allowing our brains to get larger. Now those large brains have come... Continue Reading →
To Counter Climate Change, We Need to Stop Burning Things
The events of the past few days are shocking in their novelty—the glory of seeing the first Black Democrat ever elected to the Senate from the South, the shame of seeing a President incite a mob to storm the Capitol. Who knows what drama will come next, except for one constant: the unrelenting rise in... Continue Reading →
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