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...conservation may be a sign of personal virtue,” it is inadequate as the centerpiece of a comprehensive energy policy. Wilson eloquently frames the dilemma of modern environmentalism in moral terms, but he fails to provide any practical proposals that might rescue his account, fluent and heart-wrenching as it is, from the realm of implausible idealism. But short of viable policy proposals, Wilson has produced a broad-minded, argumentatively sound call that bridges the age-old divide between science and religion. And if such a union is the next step in the environmental struggle, then let them...
...July. This time I was the object of the ''struggle'' meeting, attended not only by the Red Guards and the Revolutionaries who had come to my house but also by the former staff of Shell. The man with the tinted spectacles was in charge. He was quite a fluent speaker. He started with the Opium War of 1840, giving a vivid description of how the invading fleet of Britain bombarded the Chinese coast. He spoke as if it were I who had led the British fleet up the Pearl River. He described Shell as a multinational firm and said that...
...sent out to the grocery store to buy palta (avocado, called aguacate in Central America) and came back, confused, with cucumbers. Lourdes, on the other hand, reads a to-do list like a Harvard student and executes accordingly. My host mother’s clear preference for the fluent help translates into a clear difference in their salaries. Julia’s employment options are sharply limited (she’s fortunate, in fact, to have a job in Argentina’s tight labor market), and she earns less than 400 (US $133) pesos a month. Lourdes...
...entertaining--he has been featured on everything from 60 Minutes to The Colbert Report--that it's easy to overlook the substance of the man. Schweitzer has a master's in soil science from Montana State University and spent seven years building irrigation projects in Saudi Arabia. He speaks fluent Arabic and has a sophisticated grasp of Middle Eastern politics and the history of oil. Last summer I watched Schweitzer deploy all this information--plus his familiarity with biology and chemistry, plus maps and charts and assorted biofuel samples--in a colloquial, anecdotal and entirely accessible 40-minute luncheon talk...
...entertaining--he has been featured on everything from 60 Minutes to The Colbert Report--that it's easy to overlook the substance of the man. Schweitzer has a master's in soil science from Montana State University and spent seven years building irrigation projects in Saudi Arabia. He speaks fluent Arabic and has a sophisticated grasp of Middle Eastern politics and the history of oil. Last summer I watched Schweitzer deploy all this information--plus his familiarity with biology and chemistry, plus maps and charts and assorted biofuel samples--in a colloquial, anecdotal and entirely accessible 40-minute luncheon talk...