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June 12, 2020
Kate Aronoff
One Quick Trick for Curbing the Fossil Fuel Industry’s Political Influence
Nationalize them.
June 11, 2020
Kate Aronoff
Reactionary Unions Don’t Just Back Police. They Also Back Fossil Fuels.
The left-leaning labor movement is home to a few highly intransigent anti-reform groups. How should labor respond?
June 8, 2020
Benjamin Franta
The Pernicious Influence of Big Oil on America’s Universities
Stanford’s divestment debate shows how effective fossil fuel companies have been at colonizing academia.
June 6, 2020
Kate Aronoff
BP Is Not Woke. It’s an Imperialist Success Story.
The history of fossil fuels is a history of extortion and injustice.
June 4, 2020
Kate Aronoff
Defunding the Police Is Good Climate Policy
Budgets are about to get tight. States and cities should direct money to programs that truly make communities more secure.
June 3, 2020
Eric Margolis
Climate Change Is Going to Hit Palestine Particularly Hard
Global warming will exacerbate the Israel-Palestine conflict. But the conflict will also exacerbate the effects of global warming.
June 2, 2020
Kate Aronoff
Is Puerto Rico About to Give Another Terrible Energy Contract to an American Company?
Prepa, the island’s electric power company, and FEMA have found themselves embroiled in scandal before.
June 1, 2020
Geoff Dembicki
Trump Is Bailing Out Big Meat—and Further Screwing the Planet
Preserving the current system means preserving a climate-destroying supply chain built around industrial meat production.
May 27, 2020
Kate Aronoff
How Corporations Make Pandemics Deadlier
Lethal new diseases are springing up at alarming rates, and modern globalized capitalism is behind it.
May 26, 2020
Doug Gordon
American Cities Are Built for Cars. The Coronavirus Could Change That.
Wider sidewalks and no-car zones are the new hot commodity. They could even help businesses reopen.
May 22, 2020
Melody Schreiber
Female Scientists Are Bearing the Brunt of Quarantine Child-Rearing
That’s bad news for all of us, particularly when it comes to research relevant to our current crises.
May 21, 2020
Kate Aronoff
America’s Deadly Obsession With Intellectual Property
Privatizing lifesaving technology like vaccines and clean energy is bad for both the coronavirus and the climate crisis.
May 19, 2020
Kate Aronoff
How Democrats Can Win Coal Country—and the 2020 Election
The fossil fuel industry is hemorrhaging jobs in swing states.
May 15, 2020
Kate Aronoff
America Is Not as Resilient as It Thinks It Is
Whether in a pandemic or a hurricane, inequality and underfunded infrastructure are bad for disaster preparedness.
May 12, 2020
Kate Aronoff
There Are Green Jobs Hiding in the Oilfields
Paying oil workers to clean up extraction sites and capture carbon could help both the economy and the planet.
May 11, 2020
Abigail Higgins
Your Climate Anxiety Is Another Person’s Existential Crisis
It’s natural for even fortunate Americans to worry about the planet’s future. But for some people, disaster has already struck.
May 8, 2020
Christopher Ketcham
Is 5G Going to Kill Us All?
A new generation of superfast wireless internet is coming soon. But no one can say for sure if it’s safe.
May 7, 2020
Kate Aronoff
The Oil Crash Could Be Geothermal’s Big Break
Geothermal power requires similar infrastructure and skills as fossil fuel extraction, which means laid-off oil workers could switch to greener work pretty easily.
May 6, 2020
Kate Aronoff
The Important Debate
Planet of the Humans
Misses
Instead of lambasting yesteryear’s renewable energy, the movie could have taken up current, more relevant questions.
May 4, 2020
Eleanor Cummins
The Dark Search for a “Silver Lining” to the Coronavirus
Fewer humans do not a healthier planet make.
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