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Tag: Environment and Climate

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

Kyle Harper

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

Paul Hockenos

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

Daniel Akihiro Iwama
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.
Julian Aguon
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.
Erika Howsare
On life in Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan—one of the most polluted cities in the world.
Erica X Eisen

Can today’s crises inspire action at the scales required to think about planetary sustainability?

Duncan Kelly
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.
David McDermott Hughes

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.

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

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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 G. Victor, Charles Sabel
Waiting to ensure uninterrupted power for everyone as we transition away from fossil fuels will cost too much time—and too many lives.
David McDermott Hughes

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

Leah C. Stokes, Matto Mildenberger

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

C. J. Polychroniou, Robert Pollin, Noam Chomsky

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.

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

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

Troy Vettese

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.

Dayton Martindale

Struggles for Medicare for All and a Green New Deal are two sides of the same coin.

Sunaura Taylor
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.
David Michaels

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