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Environmentalism
April 19, 2024
Hafiz Rashid
RFK Jr. Begged to Drop Out by the One Group Where He Was Successful
Environmentalists are uniting against the independent presidential candidate.
April 20, 2023
Liza Featherstone
Nixon Was the Weirdest Environmentalist
Richard Nixon, the original culture warrior, helped establish Earth Day and poured millions of dollars into conservation, despite his own ambivalence about the environmental movement.
April 17, 2023
Jan Dutkiewicz
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Gabriel N. Rosenberg
Why Right-Wingers Are So Afraid of Men Eating Vegetables
The meat culture war may seem goofy. It’s deadly serious.
April 21, 2022
Liza Featherstone
Remember When Earth Day Used to Be Cool?
It’s been disgustingly co-opted by the likes of ExxonMobil. But it belongs to an environmental movement that fused both radical and mainstream America.
May 4, 2020
Eleanor Cummins
The Dark Search for a “Silver Lining” to the Coronavirus
Fewer humans do not a healthier planet make.
September 24, 2019
Magazine
Sam Adler-Bell
Why White Supremacists Are Hooked on Green Living
Eco-fascism is fashionable again on the far right, thanks to a rise in global temperatures and anti-immigrant nationalism.
April 18, 2019
Magazine
Jason Frederick Lambacher
Selling the Green New Deal With Optimism, Not Fear
If citizens are encouraged to help shape climate justice, they will be far more likely to join the project.
March 28, 2019
Magazine
Win McCormack
How Green Was My Virtue
Can civic republicanism help save the planet?
May 8, 2018
Sarah Jones
Whose Appalachia Is It, Anyway?
Recent upheavals in the region reflect an electorate that is more eclectic than it is given credit for—and that is up for grabs.
July 12, 2017
Bill McKibben
What Would Thoreau Think of Climate Change?
On the author's 200th birthday, what "Walden" can teach us about our own time.
August 23, 2014
Amartya Sen
Global Warming Is Just One of Many Environmental Threats That Demand Our Attention
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