online archive
12:00PM
JUN 22 2007
Animals and food, health, the environment and the Bush administration
From Resurgence, a review of The Science of Oneness: A Worldview for the Twenty-First Century by Malcolm Hollick; and a review of After Eden: The Evolution of Human Domination by Kirkpatrick Sale. An interview with Charles Clover, author of The End of the Line: How Overfishing Is Changing the World and What We Eat. A review of Planet Chicken: The Shameful Story of the Bird on Your Plate by Hattie Ellis. It’s not only pet food that can kill: A look at the everyday beauty products that just aren’t worth the risk.
Will Michael Moore's Sicko help the universal health care movement, or hurt it? Jonathan Cohn investigates. Mercury Rising: An article on exposing the vaccine-autism myth. New York City's 2006 smoking rate plumets to its lowest on record, and lower than all but five US states. Health officials credit tobacco taxes, indoor smoking restrictions and hard-hitting ad campaigns. Playing with Fire: As Forest Service funding decreases and McMansion subdivisions spread into forested areas, wildfires are becoming more dangerous — and more common — than ever before. Water, water, everywhere — and lots of drops to drink: Bottled water is expensive, wasteful, and sometimes unsafe.
Don't blame the weatherman: Accusing academics of exaggerating climate change could have dangerous consequences. From New Left Review, a review of Heat: How to Stop the Planet from Burning (and a response by George Monbiot). A review of Solar Revolution: The Economic Transformation of the Global Energy Industry by Travis Bradford. The Best Idea for Reducing Global Warming: It's not a carbon tax and it's not a cap-and-trade system. It's a carbon auction. From Rolling Stone, Robert F. Kennedy on Global Warming: A real solution; and Tim Dickinson on the secret campaign of President Bush's administration to deny global warming (and a companion multimedia slide show).
From Harper's, a series on Undoing Bush: how to repair eight years of sabotage, bungling, and neglect, including Bill McKibben on the environment, Ken Silverstein on civil service, Dahlia Lithwick on the courts, and David Cole on the Constitution. In Praise of Red Tape: When lawmakers and the media failed to hold the Bush Administration to account, it was left to bureaucrats to defend the integrity of government. The Plight of New Orleans Workers: Hands hired to clean up the Big Easy have been subjected to wage theft, exposure to dangerous substances, layoffs, tough discipline and discrimination.
