Petro-Separatism on the Prairies • Michael Ledger-Lomas
The once-fringe dream of Albertan independence has gained new prominence, forcing Canada to confront the political and economic power of fossil fuels.
Essay
The Great Biodiversity Bake Off • Audrey Irvine-Broque, Jessica Dempsey
Biodiversity markets promise to generate finance to protect vital ecosystems. In doing so, they entrench the very austerity conditions that make them vulnerable in the first place.
• 10 min read
The Chapel and the Nuclear Plant • Robert Newton
At a remote Essex chapel shadowed by a dormant nuclear plant, a battle over a new reactor is reshaping old conflicts between conservation, community and state power.
• 18 min read
Air Travels • Shruti Iyer
It's easy to think of silicosis as a disease of the past. But even today it is one of the great workplace killers, cutting sharply along class lines.
• 15 min read
Rock Dove Recon • Zsuzsanna Ihar
On the Scottish island of North Uist, a local fight against the construction of a spaceport captures a wider resistance to capital's occupation of the land and air.
• 14 min read
Chaos in the Air • Drew Pendergrass
Against Friedrich Hayek’s market mysticism, complexity science points toward the need for collective intelligence and planning.
• 17 min read
Economies of Breath • Mae Losasso
On the invention of the environment and the slow violence of the respiratory economy.
• 13 min read
Producing the Climate • Natasha Heenan
To produce a new climate in the ruins of the old, for ourselves and for the generations that will follow, we need a politics of climate repair.
• 15 min read
Delayed Arrival • Vera Huwe
The aviation industry was built through war and state power—around politics, in other words. Building something else will be political, too.
• 14 min read
Talking About the Weather • Cecilia Rikap
Through its ownership of cloud-computing services, Big Tech is setting the terms for how we understand the climate crisis—and how we respond.
• 12 min read
Capacity Returns • Jeremy Wallace
Both the American and Chinese varieties of capitalism are awash in successes and failures. Decarbonizing demands that we use the best of both.
• 15 min read
Why Climate Politics Still Matter • Casey A. Williams
Amidst geopolitical upheaval, many see hopeful signs for renewed momentum on decarbonization. But what if this optimism actually amounts to a surrender?