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Kristine Mattis

Kristine Mattis

Kristine Mattis is a writer, educator, and general dissident. She holds a PhD in Environment & Resources. Some of her previous positions include medical researcher, science reporter for the Congressional Record in the U.S. House of Representatives, and science teacher. Her writing encompasses issues of social and environmental justice, public health, science, and risk.

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Articles by this author

 
Consuming ourselves to death.

The Climate Emergency Needs No Holidays

The voice of corporate capitalism seems to predominate this season, while the wails of our planetary ecosystem are muffled under a pile of packages.

Kristine Mattis ·

There’s no room in the Facebook culture for depression or for exposing the reality of our insanely difficult lives in our insanely corrupt and unforgiving society. (Photo by Chesnot/Getty Images)

Fantasy and Fatality in the Facebook Era

A lamentation for my Father

Kristine Mattis ·

People are saying the Green New Deal is impossible. What is impossible is saving our planetary ecosystem while preserving our current way of life. (Photo: Michael Brochstein/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images)

There’s Nothing Radical About the Green New Deal

Our insatiable yearning for more has left us with less of the one thing upon which our entire lives depend: the natural world

Kristine Mattis ·

Exploitation of the environment through over-extraction of resources and toxic pollution are externalities that are rarely discussed in the context of “the market” or economic growth. (Photo: iStock)

An Economy That Does Not Consider Ecology Is Not Sustainable

As long as economics always takes precedence, ecology will inevitably come back to bite us in the ass

Kristine Mattis ·

Suffice it to say, much of what we are used to in our lives is antithetical to sustainable life and probably has to go. (Photo: Kevin Gill/flickr/cc)

Eco Crises: Doom & Gloom, Truth & Consequences

We must eat, sleep, and breathe with our environment in mind

Kristine Mattis ·

Brett Kavanaugh (left) and Dr. Christine Blasey Ford (right). (

What Brett Doesn't Know: Ten Lesson From the Ford-Kavanaugh Hearings

It's fairly obvious that Kavanaugh cannot be trusted, but there's more to it than that

Kristine Mattis ·

When Selling Out Is Not a Sacrifice

Those who endorse the likes of such corporations stand complicit in their evildoings.

Kristine Mattis ·

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Dying of Consumption While Guzzling Snake Oil: The Environment Crisis Requires Overhauling Our Corporate Industrial Civilization

We cannot take for granted, as economists and industrialists do, that we will continue to produce and consume more

Kristine Mattis ·

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