‘This business of driving stakes through the heart of one project after another is exhausting,’ writes McKibben. (Photo: via Earth Island Journal)

 

When I was a kid, I was creepily fascinated by the wrongheaded idea, current in my grade school, that your hair and your fingernails kept growing after you died. The lesson seemed to be that it was hard to kill something off — if it wanted to keep going.

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