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Liza Featherstone

Liza Featherstone

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More than “Hope” or “Optimism,” the Climate Movement Needs Joy

I massaged the soil around the roots a bit, to allow them to breathe before I lowered them into the ground. I made sure the soil is even, tucking my...

12.04.2024 3

New Republic

Liza Featherstone

Trump’s Racist Obsession with Asian Cars

Back in 1982, a young Detroit man named Vincent Chin went out to a bar with his friends to celebrate his wedding, which was to take place the next...

28.03.2024 9

New Republic

Liza Featherstone

The One Key Piece Missing From NYC’s Congestion Car Toll

A nurse boarded the Bx18A bus, whose route circles between the Morris Heights and Highbridge neighborhoods of the Bronx. Having an anxious moment most...

18.03.2024 3

New Republic

Liza Featherstone

The Staggering Environmental Toll of Artificial Intelligence

In both of my chosen professions—teaching and journalism—most discussion of artificial intelligence errs on the side of navel-gazing. It’s all...

05.03.2024 7

New Republic

Liza Featherstone

What Will It Take for the EPA to Ban a Pesticide Linked to Parkinson’s?

Pesticides, Rachel Carson wrote in 1962, have “the power to kill every insect, the ‘good’ and the ‘bad,’ to still the song of birds and...

19.02.2024 10

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Liza Featherstone

Joe Biden’s Pause on Natural Gas Is Only a Partial Victory

Victories in the climate fight are often hard to rigorously analyze. This one is tricky for all the usual reasons. President Biden’s pause on...

05.02.2024 3

New Republic

Liza Featherstone

I Really Hate It When Robert F. Kennedy Jr. Is Right

We used to see “plastic” as the epitome of what humans, and all living things, were not. The phrase “plastic people”—memorialized in a...

29.01.2024 3

New Republic

Liza Featherstone

The Most Disingenuous Attack on Greta Thunberg This Year

“Greta Thunberg deals a cruel blow to the Jews,” read a recent Boston Herald headline. The writer cited a long list of deadly and horrific...

21.12.2023 3

New Republic

Liza Featherstone

Is New York Our Best Hope for Renewable Energy?

“Public!” yelled Tefa Galvis, a tall, smiling organizer with New York City Democratic Socialists of America-Ecosocialists. “Power!” answered...

01.12.2023 3

New Republic

Liza Featherstone

Electric Planes Are the Glimmer of Hope We Need Right Now

The apocalyptic news cycle of the past month yielded few bright spots. While war and genocide have rightly dominated the headlines, the climate news...

16.11.2023 2

New Republic

Liza Featherstone

Autoworkers’ Historic Victory Is a Turning Point in the Climate Culture War

Wearing a T-shirt bearing the slogan “Eat the Rich,” United Auto Workers president Shawn Fain recently announced that General Motors had agreed to...

03.11.2023 2

New Republic

Liza Featherstone

The Twin Traumas of Ecological Collapse and Escalating Warfare

It started with the dead birds. Last week, more than a thousand migratory birds were killed in one night by flying into one building in Chicago....

18.10.2023 4

New Republic

Liza Featherstone

What Homeowners Owe Others in the Climate Crisis

Last week, rain hammered New York City, filling the subways and the streets—and I was in the basement level of my apartment, frantically attempting...

04.10.2023 3

New Republic

Liza Featherstone

Climate Week Is Pointless. The Protests Inspired by It Aren’t.

Every year around this time in New York City, I become intrigued at the uptick in protests, screenings, art installations, and panel discussions about...

20.09.2023 1

New Republic

Liza Featherstone

We Need Bigger Feelings About Biden’s Biggest Policies

Joe Biden’s signature climate policy, the Inflation Reduction Act, is doing what it’s supposed to do—boosting and decarbonizing the economy. Its...

15.09.2023 7

New Republic

Liza Featherstone

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