Articles by David Roberts
David Roberts was a staff writer for Grist. You can follow him on Twitter, if you're into that sort of thing.
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It’s a’comin’
There’s a big, big debate brewing about "geoengineering" — messing deliberately with the earth’s climate to tweak it to our liking. This article in The Economist is a decent primer. You can already see the shape of the debate emerging, and it’s strikingly similar to the nuclear debate. A massive, unproven, problem-ridden, techno-utopian solution is […]
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And there are many
Sir Nicholas Stern of Stern Report fame has a short reply to his critics (PDF) on the UK Treasury Dept. website. If you’d rather not read the whole thing, Eli Rabett has excerpts and commentary over on his blog.
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Best movie of the year, hands down
I saw Children of Men the other night, and I can’t stop thinking about it. It’s easily my favorite movie of the past year. The basic plot is: a numb and disillusioned ex-activist lives in London, 18 years after a sudden, unexplained worldwide epidemic of infertility. There are no children. The rest of the world […]
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Schwarzenegger wants more
DR: There’s always an emphasis on personal transportation. How do you kick start public transportation and more dense settlements? Did you guys make steps toward that in California? TT: We did. While Prop 87 was going down in flames a week ago, the $60 billion bond package for California infrastructure was passing, with several billion […]
