Global South Is Now 1/3 of Major EV Markets, Leaving US in the Dust
When we say that people in the Global South are buying EVs hand over fist, alas, we aren’t saying that they are buying Chevy Bolts or Nissan Leafs or Teslas.
‘The Poor Are in a Very Bad State’: Climate Change Accelerates California’s Cost-of-Living Crisis
In ways subtle and extreme, the warming climate is hitting those with the least the hardest.
The Earth Is Unhappy with the Capitalist Climate Catastrophe: The Forty-Ninth Newsletter (2025)
By Vijay Prashad Republished from theTricontinental: Institute for Social Research During the closing plenaries of the 30th Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change…
Ozymandias on the Potomac
Energy Policy and the Politics of American Decline.
‘Who Wants to Live Like This?’ Locals Fume as Meta AI Data Center Upends Entire Community
Meta is financing the data center using accounting tricks that the Wall Street Journal reports appear “too good to be true.”
COP30 in the Amazon and the Hope of Indigenous Leadership
By Amy Goodman & Denis Moynihan Democracy Now BELÉM, BRAZIL–The Amazon rainforest, often described as the lungs of the planet, is teeming with life. Thousands of Amazonian land defenders, both…
‘Data Crunch’: AI Boom Threatens to Entrench Fossil Fuels and Compromise Climate Goals
Co-author Jean Su says that the increasing use of AI for military applications offsets any positives it offers for climate change mitigation.
‘The Stuff of Nightmares’: Jamaica Braces for Catastrophic Landfall as Hurricane Melissa Horrifies Experts
“Unimaginable violence is hiding in the very small and compact eyewall of Melissa,” said one hurricane specialist.
Yanis Varoufakis & Grace Blakeley: Why Everything Feels Broken
By Grace Blakeley and Yanis Varoufakis / DiEM 25 In this discussion recorded in Athens, Grace Blakeley and Yanis Varoufakis expose how our so-called democracies have been captured by elites.…
Oil and Gas Companies Used Banned Toxic Chemicals Near the Rocky Mountains
One of the prohibited substances can cause cancer; new state law forced operators to identify chemicals.
A Potentially World-Ending President
(Though Who Even Notices?)
Communities Pay the Price for ‘Free’ AI Tools
AI data centers produce massive noise pollution, use huge amounts of water, and keep us hooked on fossil fuels.
Bank CEOs Rake In Big Profits as Wall Street Ramps Up Fossil Fuel Financing
The 65 biggest banks committed $869 billion to firms expanding the fossil fuel industry last year, a new report says.
US Government May Be Abandoning the Global Climate Fight, but New Leaders Are Filling the Void – Including China
Trump’s efforts haven’t sunk global efforts to fight climate change – instead, new leaders are stepping up and working together, even within the US.