Ashley Dawson (CUNY): The Return of Limits. Mark Sagoff (Maryland): Environmentalism: Death and Resurrection. Chris Turner, author of The Geography of Hope, believes most of the environment movement has been spreading the wrong message. It’s time for us to shift from despair to dreams. From The New Yorker, Neptune’s Navy: An article on Paul Watson’s wild crusade to save the oceans. The climate crucible: From parched earth, Australia sprouts a culture convinced that global warming can be overcome. An interview with Tim Flannery author of The Weather Makers: The History and Future Impact of Climate Change. Save the earth in two not-so-hard questions: Joseph Romm on what Steven Landsburg doesn't understand about climate change. An interview with Sierra Club’s Carl Pope on global warming, water, and Al Gore. From NPQ, scholars, thinkers, scientists and activists write on on "The 11th Hour", a documentary on global warming. From conservation to population, a new look at Planet Earth: Can nine billion humans survive and try to improve their lives without depleting the planet? The big choice for humanity is not whether but how we survive as a species: A review of The Lost and Left Behind: Stories from the Age of Extinctions by Terry Glavin. George Monbiot reads Cormac McCarthy's The Road: It shines a cold light on the dreadful consequences of our universal apathy. Regrettably, some Americans are simply not aware of how large an asshole footprint they leave on the planet. Here, Vanity Fair offers a questionnaire that will help such individuals determine the size and breadth of their footprint.
