Data centers, with AI driving insatiable needs, not only hoover up tons of power but water as well. And water is already a contested resource
Read more...ChatGPT’s environmental destructiveness is increasing by leaps and bounds.
Read more...James Galbraith argues that economics can’t keep ignoring that energy and resources for production are no longer abundant and easy to access
Read more...Eco-taxes to reduce fuel emissions not only lower CO2 levels, but also reduce pollution, helping poor neighborhoods the most.
Read more...The wrangling over who gets what out of the Colorado Rivers is one of many escalating fights over ever more scarce water.
Read more...The US cannot achieve its goals in the world by traditional economic or military means, so it increasingly prefers chaos and destruction. How do the other powers stop it?
Read more...Heat risks are rising along with global temperatures. Some warning signs in vulnerable groups, including those who take certain medications
Read more...China’s leaders admit to widespread overcapacity, such as in EVs and solar panels. Faillure to solve it could generate Japan-style deflation
Read more...The energy cost of AI is probaby vastly higher than you realized, and will be showing up soon in your power bills.
Read more...How South America and the Global South generally are selling out their automony and the promise of multipolarity for Big Tech convenience
Read more...Your humble blogger has difficulty with the thesis of this post: “What if collapse is the road to more humane life?”
Read more...If Elon Musk were to really start his own political party, would that signal that the donor class no longer has any use for the Democrats?
Read more...A new paper rates 170 countries for climate risk exposure. This ambitious and imporant exercise neverthless seems to have key gaps.
Read more...High energy costs in Europe, largely due to sanctions against Russia, has spread the gangrene of de-industrialization to the Netherlands
Read more...Garden variety investors, including retail, are signing up to insure climate change and other disaster risk via catastrophe bonds.
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