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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Romney opposes mercury rule, beclowns himself again
Let's take a minute to mock the Romney campaign's stance on mercury and other toxic power plant emissions.
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Paternalism in the age of climate change
The outcry over New York's soda ban reveals the murky line between individual and collective spheres -- and the line only gets murkier when it comes to climate change.
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Climate change is simple: We do something or we’re screwed [my TEDx video]
In April, David Roberts gave a TEDx talk entitled "Climate change is simple." Here, he expands on the points he made during that brief presentation.
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Friday music blogging: Edward Sharpe & the Magnetic Zeros
The song “Home,” by Edward Sharpe & the Magnetic Zeros, was the best song of 2009. Most of the world didn’t discover it until 2010, when for some reason it started being used in a ton of TV shows and commercials. However, lucky listeners to my 2009 mix were ahead of the curve. Basically cooler […]
