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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 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 18, 2020
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Aaron Timms
Making Life Cheap
Population control, herd immunity, and other anti-humanist fables
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 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.
April 28, 2020
Kate Aronoff
Don’t Let Larry Summers Block Climate Progress Again
He torpedoed clean energy plans in the Obama administration. Now he’s advising Joe Biden.
April 27, 2020
Melody Schreiber
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.
April 24, 2020
Adam Levy
I Left Academia and Became a Climate YouTuber
Harnessing climate anxiety to help convince others
April 22, 2020
Kate Aronoff
The World Order Is Broken. The Coronavirus Proves It.
Rich countries have pushed economic policies that set poor countries up to fail.
April 21, 2020
Kate Aronoff
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.
April 20, 2020
Dominick A. DellaSala
,
William J. Ripple
,
Franz Baumann
Public Health Depends on a Healthy Planet
Zoonotic diseases like Covid-19 are a classic example of where ecosystems and human health intersect.
April 20, 2020
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Roy Scranton
American Foreign Policy Is Not Ready for Climate Change
The U.S. has to rethink its role in an era of ecological disaster.
April 14, 2020
Eric Margolis
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.
April 11, 2020
Kate Aronoff
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.
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