Environment and Climate
What Would Health Security Look Like?
Struggles for Medicare for All and a Green New Deal are two sides of the same coin.
Science for Sale
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.
American Bottom
Designed as a working-class suburb of St. Louis, the nearly all-black town of Centreville now floods with raw sewage every time it rains.
It Was Not Supposed to End This Way
The Anthropocene challenges liberalism’s vision of permanent progress. So why has it become another technocratic tool of liberal bureaucracy?
Climate Gut Check
Beneath the jargon, a UN report serves up a revolutionary response to climate change.
No Collision
In the face of climate apocalypse, the rich have been devising escape plans. What happens when they opt out of democratic preparation for emergencies?
Defensible Space
“Megafires” are now a staple of life in the Pacific Northwest, but how we talk about them illustrates the tension at the heart of the western myth itself.
The Last Man to Know Everything
The Marxist-environmental historian Mike Davis has produced a rich corpus critical of capitalism.
Nature Defends Itself
A new book on climate change deploys an old theme, pitting man against nature. This is not only wrong; it stands in the way of a just future.
Testing the Waters in Texas
Whoever figures out how to save Texas might just save the rest of us in the process
Introducing “What Nature”
The poems collected in What Nature were written in the predawn of the Sixth Extinction Event.
Gamifying the Ocean
Silicon Valley has turned the problem of marine plastic waste into yet another avenue for “disruption.” But why should clean oceans have to make good business sense?
For American Corporations, Winning Is Not Enough
Standing Rock shows us that businesses don’t simply silence protestors, they also discredit and bankrupt them.
Who Owns the Wind?
There is more than enough wind energy to power our future. But our model of paying for it is stuck in the past.
Draining the Swamp
Mar-a-Lago is the apotheosis of the Florida Dream in which wealthy interests degrade the environment and hollow out prospects for the poor. But as Hurricane Irma shows, this dream was never sustainable.
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