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Fighting for the environment

From New York, Obama might actually be the environmental president: His climate-change policy has been an abject failure, says Al Gore and just about everyone else — they’re wrong, and here’s why (and a response). A new study finds the economic benefits of EPA regulations massively outweigh the costs. What would “wartime mobilization” to fight climate change look like? David Roberts wants to know. Bill McKibben on the case for fossil-fuel divestment: On the road with the new generation of college activists fighting for the environment. Will fossil fuels be able to maintain economic growth? An interview with Charles Hall, the inventor of the energy return on investment (EROI) metric. Entering a resource-shock world: Michael Klare on how resource scarcity and climate change could produce a global explosion. A differing shade of green: Allan Stoekl reviews The Wrath of Capital: Neoliberalism and Climate Change Politics by Adrian Parr.