Every Green Cloud Has a Black Lining
10th February 2012
As I’ve noted in the past, one of the basic memes of environmental reporting holds that anything good that happens is actually bad: When nature turns out to be stunningly resilient in the face of human activity, it’s bad, because it empowers humans. When biologists find new species, it’s bad, because they’re threatened by development. If scientists ever find a lost valley full of dinosaurs, the headline will read “Dinosaurs Survive Untold Millennia! Now Threatened by Climate Change.”
‘Women and Minorities Hardest Hit’.