Quite the opener (seen via Dr. Jacquelyn Gill):

My father was a Vietnam veteran and a lifelong Republican. He liked to say that women belong in the kitchen. I had become an environmental studies professor, a member of the East Coast liberal elite, a daughter he was ashamed to

This is really, really good. Horrifying, but brilliant; this message absolutely needs to be shouted from the rooftops.

Did Germany’s ‘Refugee Crisis’ Even Exist? A look inside the imagination of the nation’s leading anti-immigrant party in Berlin. My latest for Noema Magazine noemamag.com/did-germanys-r…

Weeds are simply a point of view
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About a decade ago, a “refugee crisis” began to unfold in Germany, leading to the rise of the far-right, anti-immigrant party AfD, Jacob Kushner writes. But was it ever really a crisis?

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Environmental studies professor Dr. Laura J. Martin writes about her current research into fossil fuel biocides in this essay for Noema Magazine.

Fossil fuel biocides are fueling our global biodiversity crisis

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This is a bleak but necessary read.

Pesticides and herbicides made from fossil fuels that are freely available to unwitting consumers poison our land, our bodies and life all around | Dr. Laura J. Martin in Noema Magazine noemamag.com/the-war-on-wee…

Pesticides and herbicides made from fossil fuels that are freely available to unwitting consumers poison our land, our bodies and life all around | Dr. Laura J. Martin in Noema Magazine noemamag.com/the-war-on-wee…

Noema Magazine LA Press Club Seems pretext enough to reshare the pieces in question: first, this one, on Professor Dacher Keltner and the new science of awe, shortlisted for Best Feature (Culture & Arts)...

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'My father saw grass and not grass. When she steps outside, I want my daughter to see dozens or hundreds of species — to see life again'
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The growing crime of honeybee hive heists in California’s Central Valley is threatening the stability of almond crops & calling into question why farmers need to truck in millions of bees in the first place, Oliver Milman reports

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When we look at trees and birds and insects and lawns, we see the species that have survived 80 years of continuous, uncontrolled biochemical warfare. What, we ought to wonder, is missing?

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“My father, a Vietnam veteran, died of a brutal cancer that riddled his bones with holes. He was convinced that being exposed to Agent Orange in Vietnam had caused it.

Later, I learned he’d been exposed to it in our own backyard.”

—Dr. Laura J. Martin

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'That America has lost its exceptionalism in the world’s eyes is a far more significant fact than whether America still believes itself to be exceptional, or if it ever really was'.
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How do we reconcile an increasingly fractured order with an increasingly planetary reality?

Had a fantastic conversation with Anders Tegnell, Sweden’s chief epidemiologist during the pandemic to prepare writing my next Noema Magazine long-read, which will be a sequel to this. Stay tuned.

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'With no major power able to impose itself on the global system, the future looks less like a collective of sovereign nations than a scattered tableau of regional fortresses, city-states & an archipelago of islands of stability.'

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