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How Climate Change Is Contributing to Skyrocketing Rates of Infectious Disease The Covid-19 ‘Infowhelm’ There Is Still No Plan This is a picture of plastic on the sea floor, a rape of nature and another instance of hubris—that ultimate kind of human arrogance—here putting the stuff out of sight, out of mind. Some of our …
The Challenging Politics of Climate Change How the Climate Crisis Is Killing Us, in 9 Alarming Charts Americans Increasingly See Climate Change as a Crisis, Poll Shows Elaine Kamarck of the Brookings Institution leads off her piece on climate and politics with a great quote from Colin Jost of Saturday Night Live (10/13/18): We don’t …
Amitav Ghosh, The Great Derangement Bill McKibben, Falter: Has the Human Game Begun to Play Itself Out? For many of us, climate change is simply beyond imagining. These two excellent books offer quite different ways of understanding what it is, how the threat grew, and what if anything we can do about it. Ghosh is …