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IssueVol. 082 Issue 006 (December 1 2018)
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Paid articleEDITOR'S NOTE
EDITOR’S NOTE Changing the World In Richland County, Wisconsin, not far from the Kickapoo Valley written about elsewhere in this issue, is a patch of woodland I have come to cherish. It has a...
Paid articleClimate Sanity: How We Get There from Here
McKibben
COMMENT by BILL McKIBBEN Climate Sanity: How We Get There from Here The climate crisis is so troubling because we know the dimensions of the problem and we know the outlines of the...
Paid articleIn Search of the Good Guys
Tempus, Alexandra
FURTHER COMMENT by ALEXANDRA TEMPUS In Search of the Good Guys B efore I began work as a researcher for author Naomi Klein on her 2014 book, This Changes Everything: Capi­talism vs. the...
Paid articleNO COMMENT
NO COMMENT The Potty-Mouth-in-Chief In mid-2016, then-GOP presidential nominee Don­ald Trump adamantly opposed paying for transi­tion staff, believing this siphoned-off money would otherwise go...
Paid articleON THE LINE
Gürsöz, Ayse
ON THE LINE by AYSE GÜRSÖZ A Bright REDD+ Line With a vacuum of federal leadership on climate change, California Governor Jerry Brown convened a .rst-of-its-kind Global Climate Action Summit...
Paid articleLETTERS
LETTERS The Truth About Pot Farming I am confused after reading Esty Di­nur’s story about the small pot farm­ers (“Bad Buzz,” October/November issue). I am interested in environmen­tal issues...
Paid articleGetting In the Big Man's Face
Ervin, Mike
SMART ASS CRIPPLE by MIKE ERVIN Getting In the Big Man’s Face P rotesting outside the White House is weird. I’ve done it several times and it al­ ways leaves me with a strange...
Paid articleHow to Beat a Demagogue
Conniff, Ruth
MIDDLE AMERICA by RUTH CONNIFF How to Beat a Demagogue S cott Walk­er went out with a whim­ per. Wiscon­ sin’s two-term Republican governor be­ came a nation­ al rightwing star...
Paid articleIncredibly Stupid Things Donald Trump Has Said About Climate Change
SMOKING GUN Incredibly Stupid Things Donald TrumpHas Said About Climate Change* It’s no surprise that the current President, referred to by those closest to him as “an idiot,” “dope,” and...
Paid articleSaving Climate Changelandia
Webb-Hehn, Katherine
Saving Climate Changelandia In the Nation’s ‘Laboratory’ for Land Loss, Louisiana’s Fishermen Are Innovating Their Way to Survival TRICIA TOWEY By Katherine Webb-Hehn Looking over...
Paid articleThose Who Suffer Most
Hoo, Stephanie
Growing up in Uttar Pradesh, India, Gulrez Shah Azhar read West­ern poets like John Keats and Percy Bysshe Shelley and wondered what on earth could be so poetic about a warm summer’s day. From...
Paid articleAfter Coal
Hansell, Tom
After Coal A Crew of Artists Imagines a Different Appalachia T he political rhetoric around coal in Appalachia left little room for dialogue. More importantly, the sound bites served up on...
Paid articleMoving On
Tempus, Alexandra
Forty Years Ago, an Epic Flood Pushed a Tiny Wisconsin Village to A New Place on the Map. In the Age of Climate Change, it’s a Model for the Nation. By Alexandra Tempus SOLDIERS GROVE...
Paid articleWhat Response to Climate Change Gives You Hope?
"Millions of Americans are .nding ways to consume less energy and produce less pollution. Millions more support the clean and renewable energy sources that creation offers us. A new moral vision and...
Paid articleThe Hope of Harvesting
Haynes, Douglas
At the Epicenter for Climate Injustice, Nicaraguans Plant Solutions By Douglas Haynes OCTOBER IN NICARAGUA brings a creeping sense of anxiety. Over the last quarter century, it has become...
Paid articleCatching a Wave
Ingram, Mrill
“People don’t consider the ocean’s relevance to their lives, especially if they are not on a coast,” observes Thielking. So she and Robinson want to create a series of glass columns, each topped...
Paid article'Do the Right Thing Anyway'
Madeson, Frances
‘Do the Right Thing Anyway’ Climate Journalist Dahr Jamail Finds His Own Kind of Hope By Frances Madeson In his new book, The End of Ice: Bearing Witness and Finding Meaning in the Path...
Paid articlePlastics on Hurricane Alley
Feltz, Renée
battle to stop the largest plastics plant in the world from being built on the same jut of land where Hurricane Harvey made landfall in 2017. “I’m a big birder,” he tells me, noting how a...
Paid articleEmptying the Cages
Reese, Jacy
Emptying the Cages An Excerpt from a New Book on the Envisioned End to Animal Farming By Jacy Reese U.S. factory farms, where an estimated 99 percent of farmed ani­mals are kept, are...
Paid article'We Are Facing a National and Planetary Crisis'
Sanders, Bernie
‘We Are Facing a National andPlanetary Crisis’ By Bernie Sanders I t is hard to keep track of the outra­geous and destructive behavior of Donald Trump. However, the greatest long-term threat...
Paid articleAddiction, Inc.
Castillo, Tessie
BY TESSIE CASTILLO “He’s gone! Bryan’s gone!” Carol Katz Beyer’s ex-husband screamed into the phone. call, shook sleep from her eyes as she glanced at the clock. It was just after...
Paid article'I Know There's a Path'
Tempus, Alexandra
‘I Know There’s a Path’ An Interview with San Juan Mayor Carmen Yulín Cruz By Alexandra Tempus T he reality of climate change will require leaders like San Juan Mayor Carmen Yulín Cruz....
Paid articleOur Favorite Books of 2018
Our Favorite Books of 2018 By Ruth Conniff Jose Antonio Vargas, the Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist whose mother put him on a plane to the United States from the Philippines when...
Paid articleGetting Away with It
Farsad, Negin
Getting Away with It A fter nearly two years of Donald Trump’s pres­idency—the SCOTUS nomi­nations, the eth­ics infractions, the #MeToo movement, and dickishly abandoned umbrellas—one thing...
Paid articleWhy I'm a Tree Hugger
Higgins, Maeve
Why I’m a Tree Hugger I saw a woman hugging a tree on a Brooklyn street corner shortly after Donald Trump was elected President. I was rushing to catch the train and heard a rustling from...
Paid articleFrom World Cup to the Specter of Fascism
Zirin, Dave
tural reforms.” It set the stage, Gaffney said, for Bolsonaro to “rip down the remnants of representative democracy ” In truth, the erosion of democracy had already begun during the lead-up to...
Paid articleDon't Get Me Wrong
Haxton, Brooks
POEM by BROOKS HAXTON DON’T GET ME WRONG in praise of George Starbuck and his poem “Of Late” My younger colleague told me, when I praised the poem of a dead white man, that this was...
Paid articleThe Triumph of Do-It-Yourself Democracy
The Triumph of Do-It-Yourself Democracy Between September 2017 and April 2018, the group’s volunteers knocked on more than 5,000 doors, had nearly JEM SULLIVAN “second chances”...
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