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Christopher Ketcham

Christopher Ketcham

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    • Harper’s Magazine
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    • Earth Island Journal
    • Vanity Fair
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    • Los Angeles Times op-eds
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    • This Land: How Cowboys, Capitalism, and Corruption Are Ruining the American West (Viking-Penguin, 2019)
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      • Media appearances for This Land
    • Unflattering Photos of Fascists (AK Press, 2020)
    • Notes from September 11: Poems and Stories
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Letter to an Ecosaboteur

  • cketcham
  • August 2, 2022August 2, 2022
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Below is one in a series of letters to an ecosaboteur, declared by our government an  “ecoterrorist,” who is serving 96 months in federal prison.  In his most recent email, this individual, w

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Energy is Eternal Delight (Counterpunch, July 2022)

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  • July 30, 2022
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There are visions sometimes in the middle of a summer’s day that can only happen in the woods. I was on the banks of a pond off Mount Tremper, in the Catskill Mountains of New York, with my daugh

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Latest Loathsome Antics of the Nature Conservancy, or, Why you can’t trust corporate prostitutes to be environmentalists (Grist.org, June 2022)

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  • July 27, 2022July 27, 2022

More than 150 conservation, environmental, and social justice organizations have accused The Nature Conservancy of “promoting false climate solutions.” A logging truck enters a wood-pel

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“Logging-for-wildlife” — the new trick in the timber industry’s playbook (National Geographic, March 2022)

  • cketcham
  • July 12, 2022August 2, 2022

(Originally published at National Geographic under the title, “Is Clearcutting U.S. Forests Good for Wildlife?“) Coming upon a clear-cut in an old forest is a jolting experience. Trees

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The Sane Society (Counterpunch, May 2022)

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  • July 12, 2022July 12, 2022

“The fact that millions of people share…so many errors does not make the errors to be truths, and the fact that millions of people share the same mental pathology does not make these people san

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The Business of Scenery (Harper’s Magazine, April 2021)

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  • July 12, 2022July 12, 2022

Amusement Parks — Harper’s Magazine, April 2021 (pdf)

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Cities and Green Orthodoxy: The Future of Sustainable Development (Counterpunch)

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  • December 28, 2020December 28, 2020

September 27, 2020 Cities and Green Orthodoxy The Future of Sustainable Development by Christopher Ketcham Photograph Source: Boqiang Liao – CC BY 2.0 As the world has urbanized rapidly since 195

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Wreckreation, Public Lands, and the Fecal Timebomb (Counterpunch)

  • cketcham
  • December 27, 2020

“On the trails of the public lands of the Catskills there is more trash too, more than I have ever seen in three decades of hiking and camping in these woods.   Also more feces.  People ar

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Has the Forest Service Been Making Wildfires Worse? (The New Republic)

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  • December 27, 2020December 27, 2020

“Weather and climate—drought, high winds, heat waves with triple-digit temperatures—have exacerbated the Western wildfires. But there’s also another factor that researchers and activist

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Is 5G going to kill us all? (The New Republic)

  • cketcham
  • December 27, 2020

From my piece on 5G and EMF radiation: “The signatories of the EMF Scientists Appeal were particularly concerned with a vaunted new wireless communications system known as 5G, which, they war

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  • Letter to an Ecosaboteur
  • Energy is Eternal Delight (Counterpunch, July 2022)
  • Latest Loathsome Antics of the Nature Conservancy, or, Why you can’t trust corporate prostitutes to be environmentalists (Grist.org, June 2022)
  • “Logging-for-wildlife” — the new trick in the timber industry’s playbook (National Geographic, March 2022)
  • The Sane Society (Counterpunch, May 2022)

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