![]() ![]() McKibben’s critique of suburbia is a familiar one, updated with contemporary twists. McKibben ( Falter) spotlights his 1960s boyhood hometown of Lexington, Mass., birthplace of the American Revolution and now an affluent Boston suburb, as the flip side of the American dream: full of high-minded liberalism, but careful to keep low-income, racially mixed housing out of its lily-white confines a former bastion of Puritan religious communality now corroded by individualism and spiritual consumerism and a redoubt of the fossil fuel–guzzling suburban economy that’s heating the climate. ![]() The dark heart of American racism, alienation, and environmental destruction lies in suburbia, according to this anguished jeremiad. ![]()
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