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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How will climate play in the general election?
This CQ article is disturbing for two reasons. One, it confirms my worst fears about a McCain candidacy: Today, McCain’s position would be relatively close to that of the Democratic nominee in a general election. Only on the most superficial level, but then, I guess that’s the level we play on during campaigns. … if […]
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Credulous ‘former advisors’ notwithstanding, no, Bush is not going to help on climate legislation
This, from Greenwire (sub rqd), made me laugh: Would President Bush sign a global warming bill into law before leaving office one year from now? … Ken Mehlman, head of Bush’s 2004 re-election bid and former chairman of the Republican National Committee, told reporters Friday that he would urge the White House to support legislation […]
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Climate legislation may be easier next year, but it won’t be easy
I argued the other day (and Chris Mooney argued here) that we’d be better off waiting until 2009 to push for climate legislation, since anything likely to be passed this year will be fatally weakened and the political terrain is likely to be much friendlier next year. I do not, however, want to give the […]
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Van et al
A good if unoriginal roundup of socially conscious environmentalism. Seems to me this isn’t an either-or, but a both-and. We need the "corporate sellers of hybrid cars and organic Levis jeans" and we also need organizers in low-income communities. We don’t have to decide which represents Real Environmentalism, or what the green movement Really Is.
