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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Jackassery
John Tierney doesn't have the stones to come out and say that global warming will be a good thing, so instead he just dances around it with innuendo and anecdotes.
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Bidding a fond farewell to ExxonMobil CEO Lee Raymond
Exxon Valdez: No, your other left! Photo: NOAA. Lee, we barely knew ye. Oh, wait, yes we did. “You either retire or die and I’d just as soon not die,” you said recently, and then yesterday announced your imminent exit as chair and CEO of ExxonMobil after more than 40 years with the oil behemoth. […]
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Chat with Simmons
The Washington Post is hosting a live chat with Matt Simmons, author of Twilight in the Desert.
It starts three minutes ago. Check it out.
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Does respect for the former help the latter?
A while ago I posted about environmentalism and the religious worldview. I'm afraid that post was overbroad and led to a discussion about whether one can be a religious environmentalist (of course one can) and, more tediously, whether religion is "good" or "evil" overall.
But I had a more specific question in mind. Let me approach it from another direction.
This week Bush came out in favor of teaching "intelligent design" alongside evolution in school science classes.
I've been debating whether to post about this. This is an environmental blog. Is it an environmental issue?
I think it is, if only indirectly, if you accept the following three propositions:
