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Naomi Oreskes

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Science Historian Naomi Oreskes Schools the Supreme Court on Climate Change

Scientists and lawmakers in the 70s knew more than we think they did about climate change and the impacts of fossil fuel regulations.

by Naomi Oreskes, Jessica McKenzie via Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists on August 15, 2024
Asbestos Is Finally Banned in the U.S. Here’s Why It Took So Long.

The carcinogenic effects of asbestos have been known for decades. We should have banned it long ago.

by Naomi Oreskes via Scientific American on May 14, 2024
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The Big Business Campaign That Has Shaped 40 Years of GOP Rhetoric

The philosophy that drives the GOP's attacks on government and how it has fueled some of our biggest problems.

by Naomi Oreskes, Erik M. Conway via Made By History on March 9, 2023
America's Toxic Romance With the Free Market

How market fundamentalists convinced Americans to loathe government.

by Naomi Oreskes, Claudia Dreifus via The Nation on February 17, 2023

The Big Myth: How American Business Taught Us to Loathe Government and Love the Free Market

Naomi Oreskes, Erik M. Conway

The Collapse of Western Civilization: A View from the Future

Naomi Oreskes, Erik M. Conway

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The Lost History of What Americans Knew About Climate Change in the 1960s

It wasn’t just scientists who were worried, but Congress, the White House, and even Sports Illustrated, newly unearthed documents show.

by Kate Yoder via Grist on August 5, 2024

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The Rise and Fall of Neoliberalism

The free market used to be touted as the cure for all our problems; now it’s taken to be the cause of them.

by Louis Menand via The New Yorker on July 17, 2023

Devils roasting the earth on a spit.

From Saving the Earth to Ruling the World

The transformation of the environmental movement.

by Christopher Caldwell via Claremont Review of Books on November 1, 2019

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The Habit America’s Historians Just Can’t Give Up

If fact-checking could fix us, we’d be a utopia by now.

by Matthew E. Stanley, Paul M. Renfro via Slate on January 9, 2023

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It Wasn’t Just Oil Companies Spreading Climate Denial

The electricity industry knew about the dangers of climate change 40 years ago. It denied them anyway.

by Robinson Meyer via The Atlantic on September 7, 2022

Hawaiian feathered war god.

In Defense of Presentism

The past does not speak to us; we speak for the past.

by David Armitage via Oxford University Press on January 13, 2022

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