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The River’s Blood Turned to Stone

By Robin Bates | Published: April 10, 2015

This Scott Bates fable captures the tragedy of California’s drought.

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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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Mass Extinctions Followed by Life

By Robin Bates | Published: August 21, 2014

Richard Shelton’s poem “Death” reminds us that we are part of the world that we are destroying.

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GOP Denies a Giant Problem

By Robin Bates | Published: June 3, 2014

Faced with climate change denialism, Obama has been forced to take executive action. Jonathan Swift would understand.

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This Is the Way the World Ends

By Robin Bates | Published: May 15, 2014

Robert Frost’s “Fire and Ice” reflects upon how the world will end. Recent news of melting Antarctic glaciers says we can expect fire and ice to both play a role.

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Does Moby Dick Await Us?

By Robin Bates | Published: July 23, 2013

Is America headed for the same fate as the Pequod?

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Drought and the Human War on Nature

By Robin Bates | Published: July 19, 2012

Pueblo novelistLeslie Marmon Silko finds a combination of spiritual, psychological and economic explanations for drought.

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