Q&A: Tech Billionaires’ AI Space Empire Fantasies Are ‘An Insidious Form of Climate Denial’
Science journalist Adam Becker dissects offensively crazy tech billionaires’ schemes that greenwash their planetary looting.
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The US of AI: How Energy Laws and Oversight Are Being Trashed to Benefit the Broligarchy
Billionaire tech libertarians have long sought “freedom cities” free from government oversight. It increasingly looks like they’re going to get a “freedom country” instead.
Read more...“Who Gets to Decide How Much Is ‘Enough’ to Live a Good Life?”
A new climate change fix of sustainable limits bizarrely hypes that collective groups will decide, ignoring power and wealth inequality
Read more...The World is in Water Bankruptcy, UN Scientists Report – Here’s What That Means
Water bankruptcy does not just happen gradually, then suddenly, but also with the prospect of violence.
Read more...What Can We Do for the 250 Million and Counting Displaced by the Environmental Crisis?
A call for a new comprehensive legal framework for climate refugees to safeguard vulnerable populations and protect those who may be at risk in the future.
Read more...Book Review: A Portrait of the Arctic World in Flux
Neil Shea’s “Frostlines” captures the terror and beauty of the Arctic, a region often dismissed as “big, cold, white, and far away.”
Read more...Coffee Break: The President Fixes Health Care While Unfixing the Air We Breathe, Among Other Things
Part the First: The President Fixes Healthcare. Oh, joy! A very long time ago I told myself that, surely, by the time I was eligible for Medicare the United States would have fixed our healthcare system so that job lock and other assorted problems would have vanished. Silly me. I have been eligible for Medicare […]
Read more...Climate Engineering Would Alter the Oceans, Reshaping Marine Life – Our New Study Examines Each Method’s Risks
Sadly, climate engineering, aka geo-engineering, is coming. Is it possible to properly assess risks and choose least-hazardous approaches?
Read more...The Next Frontier of Climate Accountability: Making Big Food Pay Its Ecological Bill
Food industry induced environmental degradation is more serious than most realize. We could reverse this trajectory….but will we?
Read more...American Hegemony by AI: The Role of Israel
The India-Middle East-Europe Corridor is back from the dead, but what of all the issues with an imperial strategy that relies on data centers and desalination in a hotbox ready to blow.
Read more...EU’s Carbon Border Tax Goes Live, Eliciting Threats from China and Perhaps Soon, the US
China and India are unhappy about a new EU carbon tax on exports like steel. The US is expected to join the chorus. Will they retaliate?
Read more...How China’s Overinvestment Helped Produce Africa’s Deindustrialization
An in-depth article from a leftist vantage on China’s extensive involvement in Africa finds that it has been a net negative for development
Read more...These 15 Coal Plants Would Have Retired. Then Came AI and Trump.
Utilities started reversing coal power’s “irreversible” decline. Will it last?
Read more...What to Eat Now, More Than Ever
Marion Nestle has been the essential guide to our “food system” (one trillion dollars a year) in the United States for a long time. Her work is relevant in other such as the United Kingdom that lack a robust food culture, for the most part because it was killed by the food system, not because […]
Read more...In an Ohio Suburb, Sprawl Is Being Transformed Into Walkable Neighborhoods
Yale Climate Connections argues that rethinking American suburbs could help people drive less, lowering emissions.
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