Environment and Climate
Dreams of Green Hydrogen
In place of public-private partnerships, we should revive the Pan-African ambitions of the green developmental state.
How Government Ends
Through an assault on administrative agencies, the Supreme Court is systematically eroding the legal basis of effective governance.
The Limits of the Growth Economy
It’s bad for the planet and bad for us. Fortunately, sustainable living need not come at the expense of well-being.
The New Moral Mathematics
In his new book, philosopher William MacAskill implies that humanity’s long-term survival matters more than preventing short-term suffering and death.
Endless Ice
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.
How to Avert Climate Catastrophe
Acknowledging the immediacy of global warming does not mean succumbing to despair.
The Animal Crisis Is a Human Crisis
The systems that harm animals go hand in hand with systems that harm humans. Combating them requires inter-species solidarity.
Our Global Food System Was Already in Crisis. Russia’s War Will Make It Worse
The Global South will suffer the most as colonial legacies, climate change, and capitalism continue to plunge millions into hunger.
Far from Ukraine, Putin’s War Worsens Palm Oil Crisis
The commodity’s bloody history is instructive of how global capitalism can and can’t be fixed.
The In-Between of Environmental Crisis
Two recent essay collections explore the interplay between literary genre and a rapidly changing planet.
Sunlight as Infrastructure
Sunlight-friendly architecture could heat and illuminate buildings without expending any electricity.
The Fight for Reparations Cannot Ignore Climate Change
Racial redress should be modeled on the global anticolonial tradition of worldbuilding.
Whose Anthropocene?
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.
The Radical Promise of Human History
A sweeping new history of humanity upends the story of civilization, inviting us to imagine how our own societies could be radically different.
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