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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What are you optimistic about?
Every year at the Edge Foundation World Question Center they ask a single question of a huge collection of diverse thinkers. The results are always fascinating — intellectual crack, as BBC radio has it. (I wrote a bit about last year’s question.) This year’s question is: What are you optimistic about, and why? As you’d […]
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Things will fall apart
Shorter James Kunstler: Sure, things didn’t fall completely apart in 2006, but this year … this year it’s gonna happen!
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The supposed ‘middle way’ is debunked
Andy Revkin produced a truly bizarre piece over the weekend: "Middle Stance Emerging in Debate Over Climate." Frankly, I’m surprised it got past the NYT’s news editors. It strikes me as a good illustration of the limits of traditional journalism, since what Revkin’s up to is not a description of a state of affairs — […]
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Ignore them
As most of you have probably noticed, Gristmill has attracted a few trolls. I guess we can attribute that to some combination of increased popularity and the recent Coby-driven focus on global warming. There’s a lot to say about this, but I’m jammed with other things right now, so just a quick note. I’ve been […]
