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Everything’s Cool
YOU MIGHT THINK that if a former vice-president can make an Oscar-winning film about global warming…
In Praise of Barbarians
THE PUBLISHER of Mike Davis’s new collection of essays takes its name from the Haymarket Martyrs,…
The Last Flight of the Scarlet Macaw
THE LAST FLIGHT of the Scarlet Macaw centers around a small dam that should have gone up without…
Earth Under Fire
IN 1998, when photojournalist Gary Braasch read an Atlantic Monthly article about climate change,…
Nobodies
BUDDHISTS HAVE A PRAYER, spoken at mealtimes, that begins, “Innumerable labors have brought…
Thought to Exist in the Wild
GRANTED, I have a thing for rhinos. But few readers could see the sleeping rhinoceros on page thirty-one…
Break Through
IN 2004, Ted Nordhaus and Michael Shellenberger circulated a now-infamous paper on the failures of…
Capitalism 3.0
Peter Barnes made a name for himself as cofounder of Working Assets, a business that offers telephone…
Unnatural Disaster
THIS IS NOT an easy book to read, which is not to say that it lacks merit. The dispatches collected…
