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Christopher Ketcham

Christopher Ketcham

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    • Harper’s Magazine
    • Harpers.org (online only)
    • Earth Island Journal
    • Vanity Fair
    • New York Times op-eds
    • Los Angeles Times op-eds
  • Books
    • This Land: How Cowboys, Capitalism, and Corruption Are Ruining the American West (Viking-Penguin, 2019)
      • Reviews of This Land
      • Media appearances for This Land
    • Unflattering Photos of Fascists (AK Press, 2020)
    • Notes from September 11: Poems and Stories
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Month: July 2022

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)

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  • 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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Recent Posts

  • 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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