Rethinking the think tanks: how industry-funded “experts” twist the environmental debate
Sierra, July-August, 2002 by Curtis Moore
“Y0U KNOW US BETTER THAN YOU THINK,” boast the ads of Koch Industries, a conglomerate owned by reclusive billionaire brothers Charles and David Koch. And it’s true: Most of us have unknowingly wolfed a burger ground from Koch beef, ridden on tires made from Koch’s Trevira polyester, or escaped the rain beneath a roof covered ,with Koch asphalt.
AWASH IN A RISING SEA – How global warming is overwhelming the islands of the tropical Pacific – Cover Story
International Wildlife, Jan-Feb, 2002 by Curtis A. Moore
OUR ALUMINUM SKIFF plows through Tarawa Lagoon’s emerald waters, throwing up a spray that glitters in the sunlight like a cascade of diamonds. North and west is the barely visible village of Naa, and beyond that lies what I’ve come to see or, more accurately, not see: Tebua Island.
NEW SHOWDOWN OVER COAL – In Thailand and across the globe, people are protesting the dark underside of the world’s most common fuel
International Wildlife, May-June, 2000 by Curtis A. Moore
DURING the chilly predawn of October 3, 1992, cool air flooding southeast from China washed over the lush limestone hills of Southeast Asia into the valleys of the Mae Moh province in northern Thailand. There it formed a classic atmospheric inversion, trapping the sulfurous exhaust from 13 coal-burning power plants. These gases began to react with the fog, forming an acid that dripped to the ground.

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