Silicon Valley elites want to “disrupt” democracy with feudalism. Understanding their new and evolving ideology is critical to grappling with what’s happening in the U.S. today.
Tech Industry
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Bad Maths: How economic modelling paved the way for AI on climate change
Before billionaires were using AI to justify not phasing out fossil fuel, governments and business were using economic modelling to do similar.
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False Solutions and Climate Delay
This series is supported in part by the Pulitzer Center, with several pieces co-published with media partners, including The Guardian, Vox, and Rolling Stone. Reporting on climate disinformation has increased exponentially over the past decade. In 2015, reporters at Inside Climate News, The Los Angeles Times, and Columbia Journalism School published the stories collectively referred […]
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Microsoft employees spent years fighting the tech giant’s oil ties. Now, they’re speaking out.
Inside the worker-led effort to get the world’s most valuable company to stop helping the oil and gas industry drill.
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I Saw the Future of Climate Technology—And Its Big-Oil Investors
At the Cleantech North America conference, the fates of climate-tech startups are tangled into the balance sheets of companies who caused the crisis in the first place.
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COP28 and the Limits of Eco Modernism
The UAE has already shown us the limits of technocratic approaches on climate.
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S4, Bonus: Computer-Aided Destruction: Art, Autodesk, and What Accountability Looks Like for the Tech Industry
French artist Joanie Lemercier has been a thorn in Autodesk's side for more than a year now, since he first pointed out that the California software company's computer-aided drafting (CAD) software keeps Europe's largest coal mine operating. Tech reporter Maddie Stone started looking into it, and found that Autodesk software is used by not only […]
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Computer-Aided Destruction
Autodesk “makes software for people who make things,” including fossil fuel companies, although it’s marketed itself as a highly sustainable company for years. As climate accountability expands to include the tech sector, big new questions are emerging.
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Big Oil, Big Profits, Big Brother
The multi-billion-dollar digital services Microsoft provides to the oil and gas industry could help delay the energy transition — and threaten worker privacy.