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The Atlantic Hope for the future is a reasonable and necessary prerequisite for action. H. Abernathy / ClassicStock / Getty It feels as if the world is on fire—and it is. In the last days of the Trump administration, U.S. government scientists announced that 2020 was one of the two hottest years in recorded history. The other hottest year was 2016: fittingly, the year that the United States elected Donald Trump president, a disaster for the environment as well as democratic norms. I am an environmental writer, and in the environmental world, the past year in particular has felt like an endl...

Sir David admitted that it was difficult to communicate the threat of global warming to the public without scaring people or leaving them feeling helpless. He felt it would be “irresponsible to ignore” climate change and that there was a “responsibility” to inform viewers. But The Guardian’s Jonathan Watts questioned whether Sir David’s documentaries were “too light-handed”. This followed the warnings of many environmental journalists and agencies. In the 2015 book, The Sixth Extinction, Elizabeth Kolbert warned that one-quarter of mammals, one-fifth of reptiles and one-sixth ...

(Dover Publications) A novel that tells the story of three brothers and that engages all the major ethical debates—exploring faith, morality, free will, greed, obsession, and madness. How many times have I read this book? How many times can you read a book this long? I am Ivan, in a constant state of doubt, always on the verge of a nervous breakdown, or not even on the verge. Reading The Brothers K is like being in the psych ward of your own mind—doubt, doubt, doubt, doubt, “I have a longing for life and I go on living in spite of logic.” This is a trans person’s motto. What logic ...

After Climate Alarmism David Wallace-Wells In the American Southwest, birds fell dead from the sky by the tens of thousands, succumbing mid-flight to starvation, emaciated by climate change. Across the horn of Africa swarmed 200 billion locusts, 25 for every human on earth, darkening the sky in clouds as big as whole cities, descending on cropland and chewing through as much food as tens of millions of people eat in a day, eventually dying in such agglomerating mounds they stopped trains in their tracks — all told, 8,000 times as many locusts as could be expected in the abse...

23 books to read in 2021 Today's best articles Daily business briefing Solving COVID newsletter It has been nearly a year now since most of us have enjoyed a book in any of the usual places: a coffee shop, on a commute, in an airplane, on a beach. But that hasn't stopped people from reading — in fact, the opposite. Speaking personally, 2020 made me extra grateful for all the moments I spent with paper and ink, away from yet another screen containing no good news. Now we seem on the cusp of what is hopefully the beginning of the end, and it becomes possible again to imagine reading books...