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  • The Age of Human Arrogance, Part II

    What on Earth Are We Doing? The Madness of Mining the Cosmos While Poisoning Our Only Home Humanity stands at a strange and tragic crossroads. We boast of our intelligence, our innovation, our “progress,” yet we behave like a species determined to sabotage its own future. We tear open the earth for minerals, metals, and […]

  • The Age of Human Arrogance

    For most of human history, we lived as one species among many. We shared forests with elephants, rivers with hippos, skies with vultures, and coastlines with turtles whose migrations predate our earliest civilizations. The natural world was not a backdrop to human life; it was the condition that made human life possible. For millennia, animals […]

  • Climate Crisis Threatens Everything

    It was the summer of 2003. I was employed at the time as the national coordinator of the Independent Progressive Politics Network, working towards, we hoped, a progressive, broad-based alternative to the Dems and Reps. But something happened that summer in Europe which changed my life, leading me to leave that IPPN job a year […]

  • Social Climate Colonialism: The Empire’s New Siege

    Invocation The climate crisis is not a neutral storm. It is not an unfortunate accident of weather or a tragic twist of fate. It is the latest battlefield of empire — a slow, suffocating siege in which the Global South pays for the pollution of the Global North. Rising seas, burning forests, collapsing harvests, and […]

  • 40-Year Taklamakan Greening Project Bears Fruit

    40-Year Taklamakan Greening Project Bears Fruit

    An experiment in western China over the past four decades shows that it is possible to tame the expansion of desert lands with greenery, and, in the process, pull excess carbon dioxide out of the sky. Taklamakan Desert location. (PeterHermesFurian/iStock/Getty) The sprawling greening project along the edges of China’s Taklamakan Desert is creating a visible […]

  • Law of the Sea, the Abysmal Plain, and the Value of Intentional Obsolescence

    Law of the Sea, the Abysmal Plain, and the Value of Intentional Obsolescence

    REE’s — Rare Earth Elements. We’re all connected to the deep sea. There is no line in the ocean that says to us, ‘below this, nothing matters.’ The ocean is all connected. It’s the largest livable habitat on the planet. — Astrid Leitner, Oregon State U assistant professor.   The interview HERE, to be aired, in […]

  • The Mirage of Development: Gwadar’s Water Wars

    The Mirage of Development: Gwadar’s Water Wars

    A view of the Gwadar port of Pakistan Photo: VCG While the rest of Pakistan’s major cities were drenched in monsoon rains, a group of children stood hand in hand and chorused this in unison in Gwadar’s New Tobagh Ward near Koh-a-Bun Ward: “Pani Dho, bijli dho, warna Kursi Chor Dho.” ( Give us water, […]

  • Annie Dillard a la Rachel Carson a la David Quammen — Meet Journalist Caroline Tracey

    Annie Dillard a la Rachel Carson a la David Quammen — Meet Journalist Caroline Tracey

    Caroline Tracey’s debut book, a blend of environmental reportage and memoir titled Salt Lakes: An Unnatural History, is forthcoming in March 2026 from W.W. Norton. Originally from Colorado, Caroline holds a doctorate in geography from the University of California, Berkeley. She is a recipient of the Waterston Prize for Desert Writing, the Ira A. Lipman […]

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