A road map that misses some turns
Mark Jacobson’s new book, greeted with hosannas by some leading environmentalists, is full of good ideas – but the whole is less than the sum of its parts.
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Lützerath bleibt!
On the 14th of January 2023, a large-scale demonstration of around 35,000 people proved that the evicted village of Lützerath (Germany) has reignited the climate movement’s determination.
Ruminations on losing power and what is appropriate technology
We can’t depend on tech at all if we want to see the future. We depend on this Earth. And no tool is ever going to end that interdependency.
Wait, Exxon’s Not Going to be an Algae Company?
Exxon makes money—a record $59 billion this past year—by selling you stuff that you burn so then you have to buy some more.
“Sometimes a Gas Stove Is Not Just a Gas Stove”
The stove campaign is aimed at improving indoor air quality and health, but if successful, it will also reduce emissions of methane, the powerful greenhouse gas that is the chief component of fossil gas.
Fossil Fragility
We’re all worshippers of fossil fuels to some degree. It’s not as if all of us willfully have a choice in the matter, but in virtually every product we buy and service we use, somewhere or everywhere along the supply chain there are inputs born of suffering, ecological and human.
Manifesto for an Ecosocial Energy Transition from the People of the South
A new manifesto critiques the “clean energy” transitions of the Global North and offers an alternative vision from the Global South.
‘The Oil Machine’: How environmental grand narratives obstruct ‘real’ change
We need a new, more radical paradigm, which exposes the modern technological lifestyle as an ‘economic suicide cult’.
Renewables will be world’s top electricity source within three years, IEA data reveals
Renewables will cover almost all of global electricity demand growth out to 2025, becoming the world’s top source of electricity within three years, new figures reveal.
As US-EU trade tensions rise, conflicting carbon tariffs could undermine climate efforts
The two visions for climate policy tariffs involve different paths toward somewhat different goals, so they cannot easily be reconciled.
The Energy Crisis, Renewable Energies and RR+E
There are already plenty of economic and political actors defending the hyper-technological renewables. The time has come to shift our discourses toward technics that will enable us to change the energy matrix while also achieving an ecosocial transition.
Oil companies and the windfalls of war
Do oil companies and their investors have a paramount right to profits earned through no sweat of their brows over families who, through no fault of their own, are forced to make decisions between food and fuel, between keeping the lights on and life-saving medicines?
