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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Myths shot down
If you hang around much with conservatives, you've no doubt heard the charge that environmentalists, inspired by Rachel Carson, led the charge to ban DDT and thereby "mass murdered" millions of Africans the pesticide could have saved.
It's bullshit.
Jeff Dorchen explains why.(via Tim Lambert, who owns the DDT issue)
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Meta
Sorry to be so AWOL from the blog. I'm afraid it's going to stay that way for a few days. I'm working furiously on a few different things.
One of them is a series of interviews on the subject of God & the Environment, focusing for the most part on the recent evangelical environmental movement. All this is in conjunction with a Bill Moyers special on PBS on the same subject.
More -- much more -- on that Wed. Until then, well, keep each other company.
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Harder than it looks
In the latest issue of Sierra Magazine, Seattleite Seth Zuckerman recounts the results of his personal experiment:
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Not how it works
I missed this when it first came out, but check out the Zogby poll on global warming:
