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The Good Earth

What does it mean to leave a better planet for our children?

Read the Editors’ Introduction
Climate Change •
Pollution •
Conservation •
Animals •
Wilderness •
Resources •
All

Essay | Winter 2024

Winter 2024

  • Ted Nordhaus

Did Exxon Make It Rain Today?

Why headlines blaming extreme weather on climate change don’t hold up, the peril of catastrophism, and the case that we’re actually safer than ever before

Ted Nordhaus

Essay | Winter 2024

Winter 2024

  • John Last

Bears in the Villa

For the first time since the fall of the Roman empire, wilderness is returning to Italy. Are Italians ready?

John Last

Review | Summer 2023

Summer 2023

  • Charles T. Rubin

Humanity Does Not Strike Back

Why the end of the human species would be bad, actually

Charles T. Rubin

Essay | Spring 2023

Spring 2023

  • Samuel Matlack

Out of the Wild

Why we can’t rid nature of us

Samuel Matlack

Review | Spring 2021

Spring 2021

  • Ted Nordhaus

Why We Can’t Leave Nature Alone

We shouldn’t be so bashful about tinkering with the environment to save it.

From: Available in Audio

Ted Nordhaus

Review | Winter 2021

Winter 2021

  • Robert Zubrin

Why We Need a Technological Environmentalism

Saving the planet means going high-tech, not back to nature.

Robert Zubrin

Essay | Spring/Summer 2016

Spring/Summer 2016

  • Orsolya Ujj

European and American Views on Genetically Modified Foods

On the cultural and philosophical differences that explain contrasting beliefs and policies on GMOs

Orsolya Ujj

Essay | Winter/Spring 2013

Winter/Spring 2013

  • Caitrin Keiper

Do Elephants Have Souls?

On the evidence for non-human intelligence, awareness, and emotion

From: Available in Audio

Caitrin Keiper

Review | Summer 2012

Summer 2012

  • Travis Kavulla

Interventionist Conservation

On the myth of pristine wilderness and the need to manage nature

Travis Kavulla

Review | Spring 2009

Spring 2009

  • Kendra Okonski

Is Water a Human Right?

On market solutions to the world’s “water crisis”

Kendra Okonski

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