Capitalism

03/06/23
Author: 
Nicholas Kusnetz
Submerged area is seen after flash floods in Sunamganj, Bangladesh. Photo by Muhammad Amdad Hossain / Climate Visuals

May 30, 2023

This story was originally published by Inside Climate News and appears here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration.

02/06/23
Author: 
Naomi Klein
‘And their goal never was to solve climate change or make our governments more responsible or our daily lives more leisurely.’ Illustration: LiliGraphie/Alamy

May 8, 2023

Tech CEOs want us to believe that generative AI will benefit humanity. They are kidding themselves

Inside the many debates swirling around the rapid rollout of so-called artificial intelligence, there is a relatively obscure skirmish focused on the choice of the word “hallucinate”.

15/05/23
Author: 
Justin Nobel
Brine trucks at an Injection well in Cambridge, OH. George Etheredge for Rolling Stone.

May 2023

This post originally appeared on Rolling Stone and was published January 21, 2020. 

In 2014, a muscular, middle-aged Ohio man named Peter took a job trucking waste for the oil-and-gas industry. The hours were long — he was out the door by 3 a.m. every morning and not home until well after dark — but the steady $16-an-hour pay was appealing, says Peter, who asked to use a pseudonym. “This is a poverty area,” he says of his home in the state’s rural southeast corner. “Throw a little money at us and by God we’ll jump and take it.”

 

10/05/23
Author: 
Andrew Nikiforuk
Mining for rare earth metals for ever more battery-driven gadgetry is a vastly destructive and ultimately doomed response to the climate crisis argues the author. Photo via Shutterstock.

"A competent civilization would also tax out of existence monster homes. They also represent another issue no political leader wants to tackle: rampant economic inequality."

May 10, 2023

04/05/23
Author: 
andrea bennett
‘Governments should be intervening to remove profit from housing, instead of subsidizing private developers in the hopes that they will provide some discounted housing as part of their developments,’ says Ricardo Tranjan. Photos by Jackie Wong.

May 3, 2023

‘The Tenant Class’ makes the case that rents are high for some so profits can be high for others. A Tyee Q&A with author Ricardo Tranjan.

03/05/23
Author: 
Joe Fassler
The industry is trying to convince everyone … that dietary change has no role in climate strategy. Illustration: Lola Beltran/The Guardian

May 3, 2023

A Masters of Beef Advocacy program teaches ‘scientific sounding’ arguments on cattle’s sustainability in an all-out public relations war

The US beef industry is creating an army of influencers and citizen activists to help amplify a message that will be key to its future success: that you shouldn’t be too worried about the growing attention around the environmental impacts of its production.

01/05/23
Author: 
Emma Paling
Grocery giants are screwing Canadians—and farmers have proof

Apr. 27, 2023

The main cause of rising food prices is the small bloc of powerful companies who control Canada’s food processing and retail industries

The real cause of skyrocketing food prices is corporate greed and market concentration—and one group of farmers has the receipts.

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