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Articles by Lee Zimmerman
What Kind of Thoughts Has the King of Climate Fiction Got? - Tikkun
The celebratory reception of Kim Stanley’s Robinson’s recent climate novel, The Ministry for the Future, made me doubt my own possibly lying eyes.
Our Climate Discourse is Gradually Normalizing an Atrocity
Corporate-friendly green buzzwords, empty promises, self-deluded storytelling: those who refuse to confront the status quo have many techniques for appearing to take climate change seriously while in fact trying to make us comfortable with catastrophe. “Build back better. Blah, blah, blah. Green economy. Blah blah blah. Net zero by 2050. Blah, blah, blah . . .
Our Climate Discourse is Gradually Normalizing an Atrocity
Current Affairs is Ad-Free and depends entirely on YOUR support. Can you help? Subscribe from 16 cents a day ($5 per month) A Magazine of Politics and Culture Sign In Current Affairs’s all-new Single Issue page is coming soon. Corporate-friendly green buzzwords, empty promises, self-deluded storytelling: those who refuse to confront the status quo have many techniques for appearing to take climate change seriously while in fact trying to make us comfortable with catastrophe. “Build back better.
How Do We Talk About COVID Anti-Vaxxers and Deniers When They Die of COVID?
Michael Hiltzik is a Pulitzer Prize-winning business columnist at the Los Angeles Times. His latest book is Iron Empires: Robber Barons, Railroads, and The Making of Modern America. He attracted controversy for a recent column and tweets arguing that the COVID-19 deaths of anti-vaxxers should be publicly mocked. He recently joined Current Affairs editor in chief Nathan J. Robinson on an episode of the Current Affairs podcast to defend his stance.
The Age of Imperialism is Not Over—But We Can End It ❧ Current Affairs
As the failure of COP26 sinks in, it is increasingly clear that our leaders have neither the courage nor the will to respond effectively to ecological breakdown. This is not surprising. The ecological crisis is being driven by capitalist growth, which is tearing through the living world at a staggering pace, with the rich states and corporations of the global North responsible for the vast majority of the damage.
How SEO Is Gentrifying the Internet
All I wanted to know was if blueberries are bad for cats. My five-year old tabby was smacking one around the floor, and while this wasn’t her first encounter with the fruit, I’d just learned that its scientific name is cyanoccous. That sounded a little too similar to the infamous poison to my overprotective cat dad ears.
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