Meehan Crist is writer in residence in biological sciences at Columbia University. Her work has appeared in publications such as the New York Times, the London Review of Books, The Atlantic, The Nation, and Scientific American, and was selected for Best American Science and Nature Writing 2021. She is co-editor of What Future 2018 and her nonfiction book about the climate crisis and reproductive justice, Is It OK to Have a Child?, is forthcoming from Random House.
Meehan Crist
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Students of Fire
Like so many of who are learning to live with wildfire smoke traveling across state and national borders, or who have loved ones living in fire-prone areas, I have learned a Continue reading
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The Age of Acceleration
Wherever you train your attention for long enough, boundaries dissolve. And yet, if we define, as Earth systems scientists do, geological eras as stretches of time whose material markers trace through Continue reading