Tag Archives: global warming

Earth-Hearted Hope for Dark Times

By Robin Bates | Published: March 6, 2024

How to maintain hope in the face of catastrophic climate change? Hope is key, as Emily Dickinson and John Muir understood.

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Cloud Cuckoo Land: The Power of Story

By Robin Bates | Published: December 19, 2023

Doerr’s “Cloud Cuckoo Land” is testimony to the power of story to save us when we need saving.

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Indigenous Authors May Save Us

By Robin Bates | Published: October 6, 2022

Silko’s “Ceremony” shows the way towards a climate-friendly future, if only we will listen.

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Amazon Fires and the Fury of Achilles

By Robin Bates | Published: August 25, 2019

Monday Few news items have alarmed and depressed me as much as the burning of the Amazon rain forests, often called the “lungs of the world.” As National Geographic reports The Amazon rainforest—home to one in 10 species on Earth—is on fire. As of last week, 9,000 wildfires were raging simultaneously across the vast rainforest […]

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Climate Change Witchery

By Robin Bates | Published: July 30, 2018

Leslie Marmon Silko’s nightmare vision of environmental destruction is being hastened by the Trump administration.

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Brother Fire Ravages California

By Robin Bates | Published: October 11, 2017

Louis MacNeice captures what northern California is experiencing in “Brother Fire.” The poem also reveals a disturbing dark side in how we respond to catastrophe.

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Kingsolver Explains Climate Denial

By Robin Bates | Published: September 6, 2017

Rush Limbaugh has been calling Hurricanes Harvey and Irma liberal conspiracies. In “Flight Behavior,” Barbara Kingsolver shows the dangerous impact of such pronouncements.

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Trump, GOP Sacrifice Our Climate Future

By Robin Bates | Published: June 1, 2017

Trump’s decision to pull the U.S. out the the Paris Climate Accord, and the GOP’s willingness to go along, reveal an absolute contempt for the next generation. Such contempt is at the heart of Russell Hoban’s dystopian nightmare “Riddley Walker.”

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To Save Planet, Scientists Must Protest

By Robin Bates | Published: April 25, 2017

Saturday’s March for Science is a sign that scientists are realizing they don’t have the luxury of remaining aloof from politics. Barbara Kingsolver’s “Flight Behavior” explores the issue.

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