February, 2012

Welcome to the second edition of the Rooted Reading List, a round up of the most exciting environment stories of the week. As always, please feel free to add your own interesting reading finds in the comments. The biggest environmental story of the week was obviously the release of leaked documents from Heartland Institute, the US-based conservative think [...]

Yesterday a dump of leaked documents from the Heartland Institute – a US-based think tank that pushes a strong climate change denier agenda — revealed the inside workings of the organisation and the funding it receives from tobacco, telecommunications and drug companies. After Graham Readfearn wrote for Crikey on the leaked documents yesterday, the Heartland Institute overnight released a statement [...]

Crikey intern Freya Cole writes: Rather than trying to convince climate sceptics with science, should we just wait for them to die off? That’s the argument raised in a recent Grist article, where writer David Roberts argues that “cohort replacement” — that, is people dying and being replaced by a new, more educated generation — may be the best move to [...]

There’s lot of great environment reading that I do during the week that I don’t get a chance to write about, so I’ve decided a weekly Rooted Reading List is a good way of sharing these articles.