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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Sometimes a driverless car is not just a driverless car: Thoughts on widgets and systems
Driverless cars are coming soon, offering an opportunity to think about the difference between swapping out technological widgets and changing whole systems.
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The cost of not using renewable energy
A new study finds that using up our fossil fuels now, making them less available in the future, imposes big costs down the line.
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Colbert skewers the climate fatalism caucus
The Colbert Report had a wicked segment on climate change this week. Watch it.
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The unsophisticated reply to the ‘sophisticated objection’
The "sophisticated objection" to U.S. climate action is that it is pointless without help from China, India, and other major emitters. The unsophisticated reply? Tough shit. Decency dictates that we try.
