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Charles C Mann

There are serious worries about unconventional gas and oil, especially those concerning the environment.

– Charles C Mann

Charles C Mann

Not only are utilities switching from coal and oil to gas, but also trucking, schoolbuses, garbage trucks, and even taxi fleets.

– Charles C Mann

Charles C Mann

Artificial lighting, air-conditioning, and automobiles, all powered by fossil fuels, swaddle us in our giddy modernity. In our ergonomic chairs and acoustical-panel cubicles, we sit cozy as kings atop 300 years of flaming carbon.

– Charles C Mann

Charles C Mann

Farmers can’t plant much more land because almost every accessible acre of arable soil is already in use. Nor can the use of fertilizer be increased: it is already being overused everywhere except some parts of Africa, and the runoff is polluting rivers, lakes, and oceans.

– Charles C Mann

Charles C Mann

Seoul and Shanghai, Jaipur and Jakarta; shining skyscrapers, pricey hotels, traffic-jammed streets ablaze with neon – all were built atop a foundation of laboratory-bred rice.

– Charles C Mann

Charles C Mann

Like other parents, I want my children to be comfortable in their adult lives.

– Charles C Mann

Charles C Mann

All parents remember the moment when they first held their children – the tiny crumpled face, an entire new person, emerging from the hospital blanket.

– Charles C Mann

Charles C Mann

Some Western states have collaborative water agreements with Indian tribes – Washington state, for instance, monitors a number of its rivers to protect spawning salmon, which are promised to native peoples under 19th-century treaties.

– Charles C Mann

Charles C Mann

Prediction is a mug’s game, but taking the side of water polluters has not been a winning political strategy for 50 years. Presidents Reagan, Bush I, and Bush II all undertook to weaken water regulations in the name of economic growth. They left office; the regulations remained.

– Charles C Mann

Charles C Mann

Americans are willing to cheer on politicians who denounce bureaucratic overreach and job-killing red tape in abstract terms. But they turn out to like specific regulations against toxic chemicals in their drinking water.

– Charles C Mann

Charles C Mann

The queue of activists, interest groups, and ordinary people wringing their hands over what a President Donald Trump might do in office is long, and environmentalists are at the front of the line.

– Charles C Mann

Charles C Mann

You know how in movies the new president comes in and promises to perform sweeping actions with a stroke of a pen? The Administrative Procedure Act is designed to thwart this sort of maneuver.

– Charles C Mann

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