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Our mastery over microbes is only a few decades old. It is also far more precarious than we imagine.
Pushing back against the throw-away economy, the EU is designing an industrial policy around garbage.
While Japanese and U.S. officials celebrate a demilitatization in the pacific islands, Okinawans protest persistent military colonialism.
Can today’s crises inspire action at the scales required to think about planetary sustainability?
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.
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Diplomacy isn’t enough. To decarbonize the economy, we must integrate bottom-up, local experimentation with top-down, global cooperation.
Only a bold approach that centers politics can meet the scale of the climate crisis.
An interview with Noam Chomsky and Robert Pollin on the climate crisis, COVID-19, and the future of environmental politics.
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.
In a world unraveled by COVID-19, the brutality of factory farming demands we rethink our relationship to animals.
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.
Struggles for Medicare for All and a Green New Deal are two sides of the same coin.
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