The Lithium Problem: An Interview with Thea Riofrancos
Can we rapidly reduce carbon emissions while minimizing the damage caused by resource extraction?
Spring 2023
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The IRA Is an Invitation to Organizers
The Inflation Reduction Act presupposes a private sector–led transition. But battles over its implementation could build the political constituencies and expertise needed to take on the fossil fuel industry.
The Fight Against Cop City
The protests in Atlanta build on a history of organizers challenging prison construction as a force for environmental destruction.
Power Games: How General Electric Exports Privatization 
By positioning itself as an expert partner in international climate efforts, GE gains access to developing economies, propping up a system that pushes countries deeper into debt and increases their reliance on unsustainable fuels.
Markets Won’t Stop Fossil Fuels
Global climate institutions have embraced the primacy of capital, private firms, and markets—and in so doing have fatally undermined their own efficacy.
The Carbon Capture Distraction
The climate left needs to move beyond the question of which technologies are good or bad and focus instead on how we implement them.
Fighting Fire and Fascism in the American West
Ecological crisis, rural deindustrialization, and real estate speculation have created conditions in which the far right thrives.
Climate Still Changes Everything
The U.S. climate movement has largely grown in response to setbacks and defeats. What will it do in the face of an underwhelming victory?
Introducing our Spring 2023 special section.
Oil and Water
In The Rig, the connections between the workplace dangers of oil drilling and the existential peril of climate change come into chilling focus.
The Future of the Labor-Climate Alliance
Relying on the private sector to decarbonize is a recipe for abandoning workers.
PowerPoint Politics
To get as many people as possible behind the project of decarbonization, we need to convince them that it can improve their lives.
Know Your Enemy: TV Writing Today, with Dorothy Fortenberry and Will Arbery
Matt and Sam talk to writers on Succession and Extrapolations about the WGA strike and how they approach political topics and themes on their shows.
What’s Next for the Climate Left?
A preview of our Spring 2023 issue.
Energy Anxiety
After more than half a century of dependence on Russian oil and gas, the war in Ukraine has forced German officials to reconsider their reliance on fossil fuels entirely.
The Desert of the Virtual
The metaverse heralds an age in which hardly anyone still believes that tech firms can actually solve our problems.
