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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Why climate change doesn’t spark moral outrage, and how it could
Perhaps the biggest barrier to action on climate change is the fact that it doesn't hit us in the gut. But new research suggests ways to make it a more potent moral issue.
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Obama could make climate progress internationally even if he’s hobbled at home
A big, global climate treaty isn't going to happen, but Obama could push forward lots of smaller deals to promote clean energy, efficiency, and other good stuff.
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What I left out when I wrote about lowball renewable energy projections
My recent post about off-base energy projections glossed over the main reason that renewable energy has grown faster than predicted: policy. Good policy works!
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Friday music blogging: Rye Rye
I love good hip-hop. I love good dance and club music. But as I’ve grown older (I recently turned 1,000), I’ve lost the will needed to wade through all the terrible hip-hop and dance music out there to find the good stuff. I can’t tell if it’s me or the music, but at least from […]
