Rediscovering Humanity in its Absence
Peter Brown’s Wild Robot series transcends the anti-humanist moralism of much contemporary children’s literature and presents a much-needed vision of a habitable future.
Climate change
Mothers Don’t Grow on Trees
A popular book about “Mother Trees” cloaks its misleading claims in the beloved metaphor of motherhood. But as the need for public trust in ecological science increases, we can ill afford to substitute moralistic storytelling for the scientific method.
Class Divides in the Politics of Building
The turn to a “politics of building” is a welcome change in environmental thinking, but the green Left is still at odds in important ways with the labor movement, which better understands what is needed for deep decarbonization and, most importantly, has the power to help bring it about.
The Big Green Buy, Gaining Momentum
Government procurement must be reoriented away from dirty fossil fuels and toxic products toward cleaner alternatives to expand demand for such things. The Big Green Buy is gaining momentum, but fitfully.
Big Public Power from the River
The Tennessee Valley Authority was about more than electrification. It was a complex project of building state and public planning capacity geared toward rapid ecological restoration of the entire region. For impoverished farmers, it was nothing short of life changing.
Big Public Power from the Atom
Big public power in the last century applied the elemental potential of water toward social ends. The big public power of tomorrow should revolve around the elemental potential of the atom.
More Green Moralizing
A response to Trey Taylor’s “Another Hedonism is Possible.”
