Editors' Roundup: September 2015
Monica
Climate change is the ultimate gentrifier, Grist, February 2015
This was written earlier this year, but it's more relevant now that the anniversary of Hurricane Katrina has just passed. Katrina is a prime example of the confluence of race, social class and the environment, as is made clear by Mock. And more generally, the connection between the adverse effects of climate change and class has been implied for a while now, but this article shows their fundamental connections.
Malini
Climate Fiction: Can Books Save the Planet?, The Atlantic, August 2015
Apocalypse fiction: nuclear warfare, alien invasions, and robot mutinies. What’s missing? Apparently, climate change. The nascent canon of climate fiction, or “cli-fi,” seeks to take unsexy projections for our changing planet and cast them in emotion- and adventure-driven narratives. The jury is out on whether cli-fi can save the planet, but this article offers a broad overview of birth and potential for this very new, very relevant genre.
You, after reading all these great and informative articles!
Sam
The Environmental Crisis in Your Closet, Newsweek, August 2015
Do you know how heartbreaking it is to learn that shopping at H&M makes me a bad environmentalist? Reality bites, but it’s not too late to change my ways. Newsweek’s in-depth look at the fashion industry’s environmental faux pauses abroad will make your stomach turn with hard truths.
Ryan
Ann Packard: the little-known executive leading Shell’s gamble on Arctic oil, The Guardian, August 2015
‘Little-known,’ so let us change that, shall we? As people living in a market economy, we have a tendency to talk about corporations in our everyday speech as though they have intentions and desires like people (forgetting about Citizens United for a moment). This article is thus valuable in how it investigates one of the crucial players behind Shell’s controversial adventure into the Arctic.
