There’s a paradox at the heart of the clean-energy revolution. It is impossible to decarbonize electricity, transportation, and other energy-hungry sectors without developing technologies that rely less on fossil fuels. At the same time, however, you can’t build these clean(er) replacements without extracting a lot of critical minerals and other raw materials. And that extraction […]
Adam Lowenstein
Adam Lowenstein is a journalist and writer covering corporate power and political influence. His work has appeared in
Posted inNews
Big AI Is Gambling with the Planet’s Chips
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.’
Posted inNews
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.
Posted inNews
The Way Things Are Is Not the Way They Have to Be
Award-winning journalist Natasha Hakimi Zapata shows that ‘Another World Is Possible’.
Posted inNews
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.
Posted inNews
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
Posted inNews
What Should You Do with Climate Despair?
Activist and journalist Wen Stephenson has some ideas about ‘Learning to Live in the Dark’.
Posted inNews
The Golden Age of Oil-Funded Influence
Casey Michel, author of ‘Foreign Agents,’ on the state of lobbying and corruption in America.
Posted inNews
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?
Posted inNews
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