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 easy if you try
Everyone should check out this amazing piece on New Scientist: "Imagine earth without people."
I'm not one of your humans-are-a-cancer greens. That kind of talk is philosophically vacuous and pragmatically disastrous. But even an I Heart People enviro like me can take a moment to marvel at just how much better the earth's ecosystems would be without us.
The piece is not just casual people-bashing. It goes into quite a bit of depth, tracing the cascading effects of our sudden absence. As it says, "The humbling -- and perversely comforting -- reality is that the Earth will forget us remarkably quickly."
Also of note in the same vein is this graphic from The Times.
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Not as dirty as it sounds
If you liked Dan Whipple's piece today on property-rights initiatives -- and how could you not? -- be sure to head over to New West and check out his evisceration of the position on global warming taken by Wyoming's Kooky Kongresslady Barbara Cubin (R).
It is amusing, in an are-these-people-really-in-charge? sort of way.
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Texas gov. loves him some coal companies
A new raft of coal plants proposed in Texas may damn the world to decades of increased climate warming, but they sure seem to be paying off for Texas Gov. Rick Perry:
