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Making Sense of the End of the World

Making Sense of the End of the World

On Nuclear Technology, Climate Change, and Apocalyptic Narratives

By Robert Jay Lifton | November 20, 2017

Writing a Novel in the Age of Peak Content

Writing a Novel in the Age of Peak Content

Notes from the Midst of A Terrifying Digital Flowering

By Barret Baumgart | November 6, 2017

Cinder and Smoke in the Land of Jack London

Cinder and Smoke in the Land of Jack London

J.P. Grasser on Facing Up to the Fire We've Started

By J.P. Grasser | October 23, 2017

When Climate Change Comes for the Fairy Tale Forest

When Climate Change Comes for the Fairy Tale Forest

What Else is Lost When an Iconic Landscape is Destroyed?

By Olivia Campbell | October 19, 2017

We Got Too Big For the World

We Got Too Big For the World

Paul Kingsnorth on Life in the End Times with the Cult of Growth

By Paul Kingsnorth | August 1, 2017

Squid Eggs, Traffic, Trees, and More: Object Lessons for Earth Day

Squid Eggs, Traffic, Trees, and More: Object Lessons for Earth Day

Four Writers on the Environment and Climate Change

By Literary Hub | April 21, 2017

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5 Important Works of Eco-Fiction You Need to Read

Ann Pancake, Edward Abbey, Barbara Kingsolver and more

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There Is No Market-Driven Solution to Our Climate Catastrophe

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Tim Flannery on the 21st "Conference of the Parties" in Paris

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In an Arctic That Never Was, and Will Soon Be No More

In an Arctic That Never Was, and Will Soon Be No More

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Atmosphere of Hope: Searching for Solutions to the Climate Crisis

Atmosphere of Hope: Searching for Solutions to the Climate Crisis

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