Denatured: the writings of Christopher Ketcham

Dear reader: while this website will serve from here on out as an archive of my journalism over the years, and to share a statement of purpose for new people curious about my writing, I’ve moved my latest postings over to a Substack feed, also called Dena…

On X, he was dubbed the Claims Adjuster, or simply the Adjuster.

A crowd of 3,000 anti-tourism protesters descended on posh downtown Barcelona last July, their demeanor one of delighted malice.

In a recent conversation about the celebration of birthdays, a fellow journalist extolled the idea that we should coddle ourselves in the notion of our individual importance because, as she put it, “We are all moving through singular experiences of life t…

Editor’s note: Hallam and I have been corresponding for years.

In my ongoing series at Truthdig.com, I ask whether the promise of a painless and ecologically sound transition to a post-carbon future — so-called “green growth” — is a feel-good lie.

I am blessed that out my back door is a forest of healthy tall unlogged hemlocks, whose evergreen loveliness keeps me from going mad in the long winters of the Catskills.

After a long winter drought here in the Catskills, it is springtime and the water has come, a week of heavy rain.

The trouble at Arches National Park starts at the entrance during the spring and summer, when visitation is at its highest.

The dismal reality is that green energy will save not the complex web of life on Earth but the particular way of life of one domineering species.