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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Greening the city
They’re making green videos over at The New Republic — here’s the first one, from Dayo Olopade:
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Revisiting Malthus
Robert Kaplan: Nevertheless, if Malthus is wrong, then why is it necessary to prove him wrong again and again, every decade and every century? Perhaps because a fear exists that at some fundamental level, Malthus is right. For the great contribution of this estimable man was to bring nature itself into the argument over politics. […]
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War and stagflation — surprisingly cute!
“As you all probably know, in Alabama and Mississippi and Louisiana and Texas, they think oil rigs are pretty.” — Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.), self-styled “Godfather of Green“