It’s not just about oil: To support the world’s burgeoning billions in a warming climate, the human race needs to drastically rethink its approach to agriculture.
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This Changes Everything: A Simpler Solution to Climate Change
In her stunning new book, Naomi Klein has the simplest solution for climate change yet: Ditch fossil fuels. Period.
We All Have Nuclear Stories of Our Own
The Bomb has been taken down a peg from its status as the existential threat to sharing that title with climate change and the economy.
The Caribbean: A Clean Energy Revolution on the Front Lines of Climate Change
Clean energy technologies are making headway throughout the Caribbean—and the U.S. should take note.
Brazil’s Green-Washed World Cup
Like the United States, Brazil has a long way to go with its response to global warming.
What Piketty Forgot
The crisis of capitalism isn’t just about the gap between rich and poor. It’s about the gap between what’s demanded by our planet and what’s demanded by our economy.
Mexico’s Oil Privatization: Risky Business
Mexico’s oil privatization scheme will hurt the environment, scar the landscape, and leave Mexico at the mercy of transnational firms.
Noah: We Caused the Flood
Darren Aronofsky’s film “Noah” sends a clear message: take care of the earth or the consequences will be fatal.
Paying for the Climate Change Pivot
Unless every nation ramps down military spending and invests in clean energy, we’ll all lose the next big war over the fate of the Earth without even firing a shot.
Earth: Game Over?
We’re in the middle of a sixth mass extinction, and this will be the first one—and possibly the last—we will witness as human beings.