When a social cause gains momentum and becomes symbolically important, partisans inevitably hijack it for their own ends. They do this by trying to define and control the meaning of the cause and how it should be perceived. We’re seeing this play out now with the Keystone XL pipeline, which has become a touchstone for environmentalists…Continue Reading…
Andy Revkin must feel like a wind dummy everyone’s punching bag. Last week, he had the temerity to say that “climategate” 2, like the 2009 episode, couldn’t be easily dismissed. So of course he got slapped around by all sorts of people in the climate concerned community, including some prominent scientists: You are claiming that…Continue Reading…
If you read Andy Revkin’s dispatch from this one-day conference in London on the Anthropocene concept, you’ll discover: I’m attending because of a quirky role I played almost 20 years ago in laying the groundwork for this concept of humans as a geological force. I’m starting to think Andy is the Zelig of the environmental…Continue Reading…
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