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Christopher Ketcham is a Truthdig contributor. He writes at Denatured, his journalism nonprofit. He’s the author of “This Land: How Cowboys, Capitalism, and Corruption are Ruining the American West.”
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Eat, Pray, Pollute
Sep 26, 2024 In Barcelona and beyond, people are rising up against a tourism industry that strains infrastructures, commodifies culture and destroys ecosystems.
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Working for the Climate Clampdown in British Courts
Jul 9, 2024 Among Western democracies, the U.K. is at the vanguard in the crushing of environmental protest.
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The Whole Dam Truth
Apr 25, 2024 Hydropower projects are far from climate neutral and the downstream threats to indigenous sovereignty, biodiversity and marine ecosystems are significant and growing.
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Report: Israel Using AI to Write Kill Lists in Gaza
Apr 8, 2024 An artificial intelligence program called Lavender is being used for assassinations on a mass scale.
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The Seasons of Death for Wild Horses
Jan 18, 2024
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The Two-Degree Future Is Now
Jan 2, 2024 In 2023, a number of climate records fell across a planet careening toward social and ecological chaos.
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Too Much? Too Little? Too Late?
Nov 17, 2023 Where humanity is headed in an overcrowded, over-consuming world.
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Grounding Helicopter Luxury
Sep 15, 2023 Environmental activist group, Extinction Rebellion, takes on heliports in Manhattan during a week of climate action.
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Neocolonialism: Pillaging the Earth for the ‘Climate’
Aug 28, 2023 They saw the pillage of their sacred site as another iteration of rapacious techno-industrialism, the specialty of the white man’s culture.
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Humans Make the Earth Hot and Heavy
Jul 12, 2023 A new study shows the things we make now outweigh all that nature produces.
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