The Making of a Water Crisis
How a colonial dream ran Morocco dry.
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The World We’ve Built
To be human is to shape the world, to create the infrastructure of our common lives. What do we do when that infrastructure becomes a trap?
Out from Emergency
Today’s crises call on humanity to act collectively, but this possibility seems more and more remote. How do we break the cycle? A dialogue.
The Ideology of Fossil Fuels
Imagining a low-carbon world means revisiting our conception of freedom itself.
Doomsday Goes Mainstream
Doomsday prepping has long been associated with the right. Why is it catching on among liberals?
“Nothing Dollarable Is Ever Safe”
A provision of the GOP tax bill opened parts of Alaska’s majestic Arctic National Wildlife Refuge (ANWR) to oil drilling. The conservationists who created the refuge could have seen it coming.
The Community of the Forgotten
Isolated and abandoned, families in the rural Puerto Rican community of Río Abajo improvised their way out of Maria’s destruction. Four months after the storm, they still have few resources to rely on but themselves.
Our Fellow Americans
Why calling Puerto Ricans “Americans” will not save them.
What Does Climate Migration Really Look Like?
We meet two Bangladeshi Canadians, who help us parse the little-understood term “climate refugee” and the unequal ways climate change is felt around the world.
Booked: The Ideology of Cheap Stuff
What do Black Friday, chicken nuggets, and Christopher Columbus tell us about the history of capitalism? We ask Raj Patel and Jason W. Moore, authors of the new book A History of the World in Seven Cheap Things.
Why Environmentalism Needs Class Politics
In the early 1990s, pathbreaking activist Judi Bari sought to ally forest workers and environmentalists against predatory Wall Street investors. What can we learn from her story today?
The first in a three-part series from Hot & Bothered and our friends at Cited.
Renewables Alone Won’t Save Us
We need to get off fossil fuels as quickly as possible. But we can’t do it without drastically cutting energy consumption for the global rich.
