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.
Climate Change
Making Life Cheap
Population control, herd immunity, and other anti-humanist fables
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.
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.
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.
The Dark Search for a “Silver Lining” to the Coronavirus
Fewer humans does not a healthier planet make.
Don’t Let Larry Summers Block Climate Progress Again
He torpedoed clean energy plans in the Obama administration. Now he’s advising Joe Biden.
The Coronavirus and the Limits of Individual Climate Action
The pandemic has emptied the roads and cleared the skies. It still isn’t enough to reverse climate change.
I Left Academia and Became a Climate YouTuber
Harnessing climate anxiety to help convince others
The World Order Is Broken. The Coronavirus Proves It.
Rich countries have pushed economic policies that set poor countries up to fail.
The Urgent Message of Negative Oil Prices
A transition for at-risk fossil-fuel workers has to be at the heart of the next stimulus package.
Public Health Depends on a Healthy Planet
Zoonotic diseases like Covid-19 are a classic example of where ecosystems and human health intersect.
American Foreign Policy Is Not Ready for Climate Change
The U.S. has to rethink its role in an era of ecological disaster.
The Coming Ecosystem Collapse Is Already Here for Coral
Conservationists are waging an expensive fight of diminishing returns to save reefs and those who depend on them.
An Airline Bailout Should Have More Strings Attached Than a Harp
The industry was a hot mess before the coronavirus. Cash plus more deregulation will only make it worse.
God Save the Florida Governor From His Stupidity
As the state’s coronavirus curve rises, Ron DeSantis sticks up for anti-science preachers—and keeps churches open for Easter Sunday.
The Planet Can’t Afford a Coronavirus Feud
The United States and China, despite current tensions, have to work together on fighting global warming. It’s the only way.
Corporations Are Salivating Over the Coronavirus Pandemic
Pay attention to the rules and regulations being changed right now, and whom they benefit.
A Fragmented Novel for the End of the World
Jenny Offill’s Weather captures the dread of a global catastrophe.
The Next Pandemic Could Be Hiding in the Arctic Permafrost
Global warming could unearth ancient microbes. Will we be as unprepared as we were for the coronavirus?
