In their pursuit of scale and dominance, environmental destruction is a price today’s tech giants are willing to pay, Karen Hao warns in ‘Empire of AI.’
Adam Lowenstein
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A Green ‘Transition’? If Only It Were That Simple
In ‘More and More and More,’ Jean-Baptiste Fressoz shows that the human history of energy is one of accumulation, not substitution.
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The Way Things Are Is Not the Way They Have to Be
Award-winning journalist Natasha Hakimi Zapata shows that ‘Another World Is Possible’.
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Why We Need More Confrontation at COP
In ‘Existential Politics,’ Jessica F. Green argues that head-on conflict with fossil fuel interests is a prerequisite for real progress.
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The Crown Prince, The Climate, and Us
Karen Elliott House, author of ‘The Man Who Would Be King,’ discusses the power and the contradictions of Saudi Arabia under Mohammed bin Salman
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What Should You Do with Climate Despair?
Activist and journalist Wen Stephenson has some ideas about ‘Learning to Live in the Dark’.
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The Golden Age of Oil-Funded Influence
Casey Michel, author of ‘Foreign Agents,’ on the state of lobbying and corruption in America.
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A Q&A with media scholar Hanna E. Morris on her new book, ‘Apocalyptic Authoritarianism’
In their obsession with the “moderate center” have some journalists become unwitting tools of apocalyptic authoritarianism?
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Malcolm Harris on the Radical, Liberating Possibilities of Realism
A Q&A with Malcolm Harris on his latest book, What’s Left: Three Paths Through the Planetary Crisis