Beneath the Surface

An excerpt from The Problem with Plastic: How We Can Save Ourselves and Our Planet Before It’s Too Late

Beneath the tranquil surface of the water, a slow-moving crisis is unfolding—one that is quietly, yet relentlessly, reshaping life on Earth. Each year, millions of tons of plastic make their way into the oceans, hitching a ride from the land through streams and rivers. This plastic doesn’t disappear; instead, it ...
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Beneath the Surface

Ecological Nightmare in Lahore, Pakistan

A city holding its breath

Environmental crises are often narrated in statistics, satellite images, and policy briefings, but what they obscure are the intimate ways in which ecological collapse infiltrates daily life. In South Asia, climate change is not an abstract future—it is a suffocating present that shapes how parents care for their children, how ...
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Ecological Nightmare in Lahore, Pakistan

Why I Want Nothing to do with the Green New Deal 

Conservatism, Environmentalism and Socialism

I was frequently humbled living in the small, oil-rich kingdom. Humbled by the clash between two of nature’s most inhospitable terrains: a great sandy desert meeting a great salty ocean. At the boundary where these two titans collide sits a different kind of marvel: a Starbucks. I would frequent the ...
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Why I Want Nothing to do with the Green New Deal 

Are Cities an Environmental Curse or Blessing?

Yes.

Every day, people in Chicago consume immense quantities of food that arrive from nearby farms, large agri-businesses further afield, and producers around the world. Oranges are sent from citrus groves in Florida, chicken parts from processing plants in South Carolina, bananas from growers in the Dominican Republic, olive oil from ...
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Are Cities an Environmental Curse or Blessing?