Tag: Environmental disasters
Humanity Has Created Too Many Ways of Destroying Itself
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Our Warming Planet Is Becoming a Hotbed of Violence
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On a Rapidly Warming Planet, Home Is a Luxury
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The Doomsday Clock Has Never Been So Close to Midnight
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The Rise of the Year-Round Wildfire
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No, America Doesn’t Actually Need “Sacrifice Zones”
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The Price of Private Equity’s New York Power Plant Grab
In November 2021, without fanfare, and having received no public comments, the New York Public Service Commission (PSC) issued a succinct declaratory ruling enabling a new company called Generation Bridge LLC to absorb a massive fossil-fuel-burning power plant in Staten Island and another one upstate, in Oswego. The PSC’s language made it seem benign. “No further review will be conducted of the proposed transfer of ownership
This Year, It Was New Mexico’s Turn to Burn
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Down With Petroleum Tyranny—or We Can Expect the Worst
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“Eventually, Does the Whole World Go Away?”
The following is a diary of the first three months of 2020. During that time, the coronavirus pandemic overtook all our attention. I abandoned my nascent climate activism to homeschool my children under quarantine, even as I understood that the two crises—climate change and Covid-19—weren’t in competition. The only action I could maintain was writing down what people in my network said about what they were losing, or stood to lose,