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Mark Hertsgaard

Mark Hertsgaard (markhertsgaard.com), a fellow of The Nation Institute and The Nation's environment correspondent, is the author of five books, which have been translated into sixteen languages. His next book, Living Through the Storm: How We Survive the Next 50 Years of Climate Change, is forthcoming from Houghton-Mifflin.

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	Views Friday, June 02, 2017 Donald Trump’s Withdrawal From the Paris Accords Is a Crime Against Humanity P resident Donald Trump confirmed his status as climate denier in chief today, guaranteeing his place in history as an enemy of both science and humanity. Trump’s withdrawal of the United States from the Paris Accord on climate change will not stop the rest of the world from continuing to advance... Read more
	Views Tuesday, March 25, 2014 The Other Keystone XL: On the Growing Fight over Cove Point DON'T BE A FRACKING GASHOLE. Read more
	Views Wednesday, January 09, 2013 President Obama: Start the Climate Conversation Now Dear Mr. President, You promised, days after you were re-elected, that you would lead a national conversation about climate change during your second term. Well, here’s your chance, sir. Yesterday your own administration’s scientists have announced that 2012 was the hottest year on record for the Lower 48 states. This disturbing news provides all the opening you need. Read more
	Views Thursday, November 01, 2012 Hurricane Sandy as Greek Tragedy Never has a hurricane been more aptly, if tragically, named than Sandy, the superstorm that flooded New York City and battered much of the East Coast. Read more
	Views Wednesday, October 03, 2012 10 Questions for Both Candidates on Energy and the Environment Environmental issues often get short shrift in US presidential campaigns, and this year’s election has been no exception. In poll after poll, voters report that the economy is the decisive issue. But no economy, and no society, can function without what scientists call nature’s support services. To grow food we need healthy soil, fresh water and a stable climate. To sustain a productive work force, we need clean air and protection from pollution. Read more
	Views Thursday, September 13, 2012 Harvesting a Climate Disaster Farmers went to Washington yesterday. Members of a coalition representing more than 80 agricultural organizations rallied on Capitol Hill to demand passage of a new farm bill that has been stalled in Congress. Read more
	Views Friday, July 27, 2012 Feel the Burn: Making the 2012 Heat Wave Matter There have been two, maybe three, landmark heat waves in the history of man-made global warming. The first was in 1988. Then as now, the eastern two-thirds of the United States was broiling while relentless drought parched soil and withered crops across the Midwest. Read more
	Views Thursday, June 14, 2012 Déjà Vu at Rio+20 The message couldn’t have been clearer. The activists were shot, execution style, on the same day in May 2011 that Brazil’s Chamber of Deputies passed a rewrite of the Forest Code, the law governing economic activity in the Amazon. Zé Cláudio Ribeiro da Silva and Maria do Espírito Santo, a married activist couple, were gunned down near their forest home in Pará, in northeastern Brazil. Read more
	Views Friday, April 20, 2012 Save Earth Day Celebrated every April 22 for the past forty-two years, Earth Day is showing its (middle) age. Instead of rallying public pressure for far-reaching reforms, Earth Day is becoming, at least in the United States, a bland, tired ritual that polluters and politicians have learned to ignore or co-opt. Read more
	Views Friday, November 18, 2011 The Keystone Victory Victories against climate change have been rare, so it’s vital to recognize them when they happen. The Obama administration’s decision to delay the Keystone XL pipeline is one such victory—arguably the most important achievement in the climate fight in North America in years. Read more

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