"When I heard people at the Republican National Convention gleefully shouting, 'Drill, baby, drill' to get every last drop of oil, I thought the motto really was 'Abort, baby, abort,' " he said.
"There's something wrong with the American moral imagination to support this drive for oil in the face of the facts. It's still an uphill battle to get people to accept evolution."
Addressing that problem is the writer's role, Hass insisted.
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