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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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 […]
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A little of this and a little of that to carry through Chrismahannukwanzika
I don’t want to head into the holidays with a browser full of unattended tabs, so forthwith, the Great Holiday Tab Dump of 2008! This gets my vote for Most Awesome Stunt of 2008. Somebody — no one knows who — walked up to Britain’s biggest and allegedly most secure coal power plant, climbed the […]
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Uh oh, looks like the news media is tired of getting played
“Senator, if there is a hoax, isn’t it this report of yours?” — MSNBC’s David Shuster, asking Sen. James Inhofe about his farcical list of 650 “scientists” that dispute the theory of anthropocentric climate change
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Conservative Dems push back against progressive green spending
Last week the Washington Post had a story on the tension between fast stimulus and green stimulus; this week they have another along the same lines. Smart growth groups and enviros are trying to push the balance as far as possible toward green infrastructure spending: public transit and smart grid. In contrast, Rep. Baron Hill […]