The Ideology of Fossil Fuels
Imagining a low-carbon world means revisiting our conception of freedom itself.
Imagining a low-carbon world means revisiting our conception of freedom itself.
Doomsday prepping has long been associated with the right. Why is it catching on among liberals?
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.
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.
Why calling Puerto Ricans “Americans” will not save them.
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.
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.
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.
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.
In the wake of Hurricane Sandy, New York grassroots groups have charted an inspiring alternative to disaster capitalism.
Dissent contributor Kate Aronoff speaks to C-SPAN about rural electric cooperatives and their potential to seed a grassroots green populism.
The ongoing emergency of Hurricane Harvey is one that could only have been created by capitalism.
Some 42 million Americans get their power from rural electric cooperatives. Reforming them could bring energy democracy to the Heartland—and fight climate change in the process.
Kim Stanley Robinson’s New York 2140 refuses the typical binary of climate change fiction, offering hope for a future somewhere in between victory or ruin.
Ironically, Trump’s symbolic withdrawal from the largely symbolic Paris Agreement seems to be alerting the American mainstream to a very real emergency—one that long predates yesterday’s announcement.