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Tag: Environment and Climate

Azadeh Shahshahani

The United States has long supported the repression of Latin American land defenders. The tactics it exported are coming to the Atlanta forest.

David S. Jones

But awareness alone won't solve the problem. Here's what we should do.

David McDermott Hughes

With time running out, jury nullification for civil disobedience is worth the risk.

Julie Michelle Klinger

Rare earth mining will disrupt local climate resilience. Who should pay the price?

Ndongo Samba Sylla, Daniela Gabor

In place of public-private partnerships, we should revive the Pan-African ambitions of the green developmental state.

David Barsamian, Noam Chomsky

Noam Chomsky on lies, crimes, and savage capitalism.

Lisa Heinzerling

Through an assault on administrative agencies, the Supreme Court is systematically eroding the legal basis of effective governance.

Kate Soper

Austerity is not the only way to save our overextended planet. A simpler life might be both more pleasurable and more equal.

Kieran Setiya

In his new book, philosopher William MacAskill implies that humanity’s long-term survival matters more than preventing short-term suffering and death. His arguments are shaky.

Marissa Grunes

Inspired by the rediscovery of Shackleton's HMS Endurance, we revisit two centuries of lessons in leadership from getting trapped in Antarctica's Weddell Sea.

Lori Gruen, Alice Crary

The systems that harm animals go hand in hand with systems that harm humans. Combating them requires inter-species solidarity.

Raj Patel

The Global South will suffer the most as colonial legacies, climate change, and capitalism continue to plunge millions into hunger.

Max Haiven
With the invasion causing a global shortage of sunflower oil, palm oil is back on the rise. But the commodity’s bloody history is instructive of how global capitalism can and can’t be fixed.
Marissa Grunes
Two recent essay collections explore the interplay between literary genre and a rapidly changing planet.
David McDermott Hughes
Sunlight-friendly architecture could heat and illuminate buildings without expending any electricity.
Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò
Racial redress should be modeled on the global anticolonial tradition of worldbuilding.
Mark Bould

Because it hinges on who will accept blame for causing climate change, there’s never been so much at stake in the naming of a geological era.

Emily Kern

A sweeping new history of humanity upends the story of civilization, inviting us to imagine how our own societies could be radically different.

Wendy Johnson

Physicians have been fighting for health justice for decades. To succeed, we need practical models for collectively remaking our systems of care.

Samuel Miller McDonald

Beyond carbon emissions and safety, the debate must also confront how the choices we make now constrain the kind of world we can build in the future.

David McDermott Hughes

In the most turbine-surrounded community in the world, poor residents understand that their loss—of land, jobs, and serenity—has nothing to do with the common good. Clean energy advocates should take notice.

Kyle Harper

Our mastery over microbes is only a few decades old. It is also far more precarious than we imagine.

Paul Hockenos

Pushing back against the throw-away economy, the EU is designing an industrial policy around garbage.

Daniel Akihiro Iwama

While Japanese and U.S. officials celebrate a demilitatization in the pacific islands, Okinawans protest persistent military colonialism.

Julian Aguon
The U.S. Department of Defense is ramping up the militarization of Guam. If we hope to withstand the forces of predatory global capitalism, we need to begin articulating alternatives.
Erika Howsare
In a new book of lyric essays, poet Cole Swensen answers a call issued by theorists Bruno Latour and Peter Weibel: to reimagine the globe in terms of the fragile surface ecosystems that support all life.
Erica X Eisen
On life in Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan—one of the most polluted cities in the world.
Duncan Kelly
Can today’s crises inspire action at the scales required to think about planetary sustainability?
David McDermott Hughes
A new “solar homesteading law” could harness rays of sun that fall on roofs and parking lots in cities and advance the aims of energy democracy.
Alexis Pauline Gumbs

If many marine mammals are on the verge of extinction, it is not for lack of environmental activism, but because we are entangled in a global financial system that it does not seem possible to transform.

José Constantine, Ruby Bagwyn, James Manigault-Bryant
First, segregation blocked this Florida community from equal education and other public goods. Then the military–industrial complex sickened residents and destroyed their property.
Aaron Karp
The pandemic holds important political lessons for the climate crisis, but they must be taught.
Robert C. Hockett, Thea Riofrancos, Alyssa Battistoni, David G. Victor, Edward J. Markey, Joshua Cohen
A transcript of our panel discussion on the Green New Deal and our new book Climate Action.
David G. Victor, Charles Sabel

Diplomacy isn’t enough. To decarbonize the economy, we must integrate bottom-up, local experimentation with top-down, global cooperation.

David G. Victor, Charles Sabel
Biden should rejoin the Paris Agreement, but diplomacy isn’t enough. To decarbonize the economy, we must integrate bottom-up, local experimentation with top-down, global cooperation.
David McDermott Hughes
Waiting to ensure uninterrupted power for everyone as we transition away from fossil fuels will cost too much time—and too many lives.
Leah C. Stokes, Matto Mildenberger

Only a bold approach that centers politics can meet the scale of the climate crisis.

C. J. Polychroniou, Robert Pollin, Noam Chomsky

An interview with Noam Chomsky and Robert Pollin on the climate crisis, COVID-19, and the future of environmental politics. 

Rob Nixon

Monarch butterflies may be gone in thirty years. Saving them seems apolitical, but environmentalists have landed in the sights of drug cartels, illegal loggers, Trump supporters, and even clandestine avocado farmers.

Madison Condon
Huge investors like BlackRock are forcing corporations to take action on emissions. But what does their power mean for democracy?
Troy Vettese

In a world unraveled by COVID-19, the brutality of factory farming demands we rethink our relationship to animals.

Dayton Martindale

Rereleased this year in a single volume, Kim Stanley Robinson’s trilogy Three Californias imagines three possible futures for the world writ large through the lens of Orange County, California.

Sunaura Taylor

Nineteenth-century reformers understood the deep connections between public health and environmental protection. That's why struggles for Medicare for All and a Green New Deal are two sides of the same coin.

David Michaels
By using a variety of ploys to manufacture doubt, a whole industry of science-for-hire experts helps corporations put profits over public health and safety.
Walter Johnson

Designed as a bucolic working-class suburb of St. Louis, the nearly all-black town of Centreville now floods with raw sewage every time it rains.

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