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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American taxpayers help pay for coal sent to China
Lee Buchsbaum writes that U.S. coal producers increasingly find it more profitable to export their product: With the falling dollar, selling to Asia, Europe or South America is giving coal producers a higher return than selling into the United States. "If I were running a coal company and I looked at what’s happening on Capitol […]
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Deep Christmas thought
Watching my kids’ absolute, uncontainable delight as they play with cheesy, old, used Star Wars toys that my wife and I Santa got off eBay, a thought occurred to me. I’ve argued before that “materialism” isn’t really the right word for what plagues affluent developed countries. We don’t seem to care about material — that […]
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Merry Christmas!
A very merry Christmas to all you Gristians — if you celebrate it anyway. Hell, even if you don’t. Nothing wrong with being merry, right? In honor of the occasion, I give you the single greatest Christmas song ever recorded: “Merry Christmas from the Family,” by Robert Earl Keen.
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Animal rights v. climate mitigation
Ezra Klein: The carbon implication is that vegetarianism is best, but if people insist on eating meat, chicken is far better than beef. This puts the carbon argument at odd with the animal rights movement. For them, chicken is far worse than beef. It takes a human being years to eat a cow but only […]
