Reading Ellen Meiksins Wood for the Climate Crisis • Grace Blakeley
The route to a decarbonized future runs through democratic control of the economy.
Essay
Fossil Empire, Settler State • Adam Hanieh
How oil and Western imperialism remade the Middle East.
• 19 min read
Ordosmaxxing • Jeremy Wallace
The contradictions of the energy transition collide in the Inner Mongolian city of Ordos.
• 12 min read
The Machine • Kaiser Kuo, David Fishman
Is China's green technology revolution a model—or a warning?
• 27 min read
The Re-birth of Village Trees • Yan Lianke, Jeremy Tiang
Acclaimed novelist Yan Lianke reflects on the cost of progress in rural China. Translated by Jeremy Tiang.
• 10 min read
Desert Island Politics • Kamil Ahsan
A battle for sovereignty—and control—is unfolding in the South China Sea.
• 18 min read
From Above and Below • Michelle Chen
In the midst of China's immense green technology drive, what is the role for the climate justice movement?
• 15 min read
Not Even the Sky • Martin Vrba
With a history shaped by unruly weather, China has much to gain—and little to lose—from intervening in the Earth system.
• 12 min read
How to Kill a Drought • Matthew Myers
Searching for answers to the water crisis in Hong Kong’s past.
• 16 min read
The Inconvenient Case of China • Mathias Larsen, James Jackson
When it comes to the green transition, China poses an inconvenient but important challenge to liberal democracies.
• 15 min read
An Accidental Climate Revolution • Iza Ding, Deborah Seligsohn
Rather than taking up the mantle of "climate leadership", China is walking a mundane path to global transformation.
• 14 min read
Introducing Issue #4: CHINA • Editors
A note from the editors