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The End of Ice: Bearing Witness and Finding Meaning in the Path of Climate Disruption
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The public health risks of drinking water polluted by human waste are well documented. In 2010, some 10,000 people in Haiti died and hundreds of thousands more were sickened by cholera, in an epidemic resulting from the mishandling of septic tanks at a UN Peacekeeper camp and dumping into a river. As late as the 1920s, before the advent of modern
... See moreJeff Goodell • The Water Will Come: Rising Seas, Sinking Cities, and the Remaking of the Civilized World
immediate threats with a fight or flight response, but here we are, stuck in a slow-motion catastrophe whose worst effects many of us alive now won’t feel for decades, if ever.
Andrew Boyd • I Want a Better Catastrophe: Navigating the Climate Crisis with Grief, Hope, and Gallows Humor
environmentalism of the injured—less a name for a specific movement than a name for a thread of resistance that has long existed in environmental arenas.
Sunaura Taylor • Disabled Ecologies: Lessons from a Wounded Desert
most of us are inclined to think of the Environmental Protection Agency exclusively in environmental terms. They’re doing good work, but it’s work about things that are “out there” and separate from us. But in a long body world, we see the EPA as a health care agency, only at a somewhat different scale. In fact, EPA scientists who study air
... See moreFrank Forencich • The Art is Long: Big Health and the New Warrior Activist
Roddy Scheer and Doug Moss, “Use It and Lose It: The Outsize Effect of U.S. Consumption on the Environment,” Scientific American, September 14, 2012, http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/american-consumption-habits.
James K. A. Smith • You Are What You Love: The Spiritual Power of Habit
Living in the Long Emergency: Global Crisis, the Failure of the Futurists, and the Early Adapters Who Are Showing Us the Way Forward
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English economist and writer Barbara Ward, an eminent intellectual and moral leader, whose legacy was rooted in the belief that the environment and development are fundamentally linked. Human beings, she once wrote, had forgotten how to act as good guests on earth and to tread lightly on our planet as other creatures do.