Tag Archives: Environment

King’s Vision of Environmental Devastation

By Robin Bates | Published: February 26, 2015

Stephen King, drawing on William Carlos Williams’ “Paterson,” warns about the destructiveness brought on by America’s acquisitive side.

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Climate Change: Signs of Witchery

By Robin Bates | Published: November 25, 2014

Native American author Leslie Marmon Silko warns of ecological disaster if we don’t change our relationship to the earth.

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Koch Inc: Oligarchs of Order and Ordure

By Robin Bates | Published: October 23, 2014

A Scott Bates poem framing our oil barons as “the officious oligarchs of order and ordure” and “the lizards of ooze.”

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Melville and Climate Change Denial

By Robin Bates | Published: May 12, 2014

Melville’s “Benito Cereno” perfectly captures Rightwing denial of climate change.

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Mother Goose’s Ecological Warnings

By Robin Bates | Published: April 23, 2014

Scott Bates’ variation of familiar Mother Goose rhymes warn us of environmental devastation.

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Obama: A Hard Rain’s Gonna Fall

By Robin Bates | Published: June 26, 2013

Climate denialists who attack science have a lot in common with Pope’s dunces.

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Everyperson’s Environmental E-Car

By Robin Bates | Published: May 23, 2013

Scott Bates, cheerleading for solar power and electric cars.

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An ABC of Radical Ecology

By Robin Bates | Published: September 12, 2012

Scott Bates’s ABC of Radical Ecology calls for us to keep fighting to save the environment.

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The President Is Reading Novels? Good!

By Robin Bates | Published: August 25, 2011

Rightwing attacks on Obama for including novels in his summer reading are all wrong. We want our presidents to be balanced and grounded, and good fiction helps one remember what is really important in life.

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