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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Russia’s environmental movement rocked by serious mommy issues
You thought there was dissent inside the U.S. environmental movement? Welcome to Russia, where last summer a band of 20 protestors outside a nuclear reprocessing plant was attacked by masked thugs with bats and pipes, leaving one dead from a cracked skull. One of the attackers turned out to be Pavel Rikhvanova, the 19-year-old son […]
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A plea for higher food consciousness from My Name Is Earl
Here’s a new anthem for all the veggies and vegans out there. It’s from My Name Is Earl, a couple weeks ago. Darnell is a gentle soul who’s in witness protection; his cover requires him to cook at the Crab Shack and … kill crabs.
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It’s not whether we’re responsible, but whether we’re prepared that counts
I’ve been meaning to write something about the questions prompted by the California wildfires. The Mustache helped me this weekend by picking out what is, in my view, exactly the wrong question: "Did we do that?" Most news stories and blog posts that tried to connect the wildfires with climate change were constructed around that […]
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A new int’l org works toward a global carbon market, leaves U.S. federal gov’t out
Interesting. Across the transom comes news of a new treaty, the International Carbon Action Partnership, signed today by a collection of countries and U.S. states that have implemented carbon cap-and-trade systems. The idea is to share knowledge and work to standardize best practices in order to facilitate the growth of a global carbon market. From […]
