Even with the federal government in chaos, there’s still plenty of opportunity to solve a global problem.
environment
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A Green New Jail
What does environmental justice look like in a landscape overrun by prisons? Where the incarcerated suffer from unusually polluted surroundings, and prisons are a toxin in their own right?
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Greenland’s Deepening Ecological Grief
“We no longer understand it here. We don’t trust it.”
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The Crane Wife
Days after calling off her wedding, a writer travels to Texas to study the endangered whooping crane, and learns about the nature of need.
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Critics: Endgame
If there’s no earth, there’s no art. How do you engage in cultural criticism at the end of the world?
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Can the world quench China’s bottomless thirst for milk?
In China, milk represents modernity and progress. But the radical plan to triple the nation’s consumption has serious environmental consequences.
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Beyond Growth
Imagining an economy based in environmental reality
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Group Therapy for the End of the World
A chronicle of a week spent in the Swedish countryside, at a workshop designed to help participants come to terms with impending environmental doom.
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I Want to Say One Word to You. Just One Word.
“Plastics.”
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A Beast for the Ages
Why do we love (and fear, and kill) polar bears with so much intensity?