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Season 6 Trailer: Echoes of a Coup

  • January 3, 2024

In November 1898, an armed White supremacist mob—supported by most White elites in North Carolina—murdered untold Black Wilmington residents and drove the city’s elected Fusionist government from power, installing Democrats in their place. (Fusionists were…

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S5 E11: Change Everything

  • January 24, 2022
Season 5 art by Mara Guevarra. Episode image: Merriam-Webster online Dictionary, image editing by Mara Guevarra.

In our Season 5 finale: What’s the cultural transformation we need to make—in the West, and the U.S. in particular—to live in good health with the rest of the natural world and with each other?…

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S5 E8: Last Orders

  • January 24, 2022
Episode image: In the Cromarty Firth at the edge of Nigg, Scotland, retired oil rigs, left, and, to the right, wind turbine supports, or “jackets,” waiting to be towed out to sea. Photo by Victoria MacArthur. Image editing by Mara Guevarra.

Among the wealthy, industrialized Western countries that created the climate crisis, Scotland is one of the leaders in pivoting away from fossil fuels—or promising to. Just how quickly will Scots be willing to cut off…

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S5 E6: “We Don’t Have the Power to Fight It”

  • January 24, 2022

Earth’s changing climate is already displacing millions of people, worsening tension and conflict, and sometimes violence—for example, between farmers and traditional nomadic herders in Nigeria. Part 6 of The Repair, our series on the climate…

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S5 E3: “Managing” Nature

  • January 24, 2022
Season 5 art and image editing by Mara Guevarra. Episode image: Photo of a painting of Gifford Pinchot by artist Stan Galli, 1955, with image editing by Mara Guevarra. The painting was commissioned by the Weyerhauser Timber Company for an ad campaign promoting “productive” forest management. Image courtesy of the Forest History Society, Durham, North Carolina.

If the Enlightenment was so great, why was it not a course correction? Did newer cultural values that took hold in the West in this period speed up our race toward ecological suicide? Part 3…

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S5 E2: To the Victor

  • January 24, 2022
Christopher Columbus landing at Hispaniola in 1492. Engraving from Herrera, 'Historia General De Los Hechos De Los Castellanos,' 1601. Edited photo highlights the ships, weapons, seamen, and the Christian cross in bright red.

How Western Europe really broke bad in its understanding of humanity’s place in the natural world, starting in the Middle Ages. Part 2 of The Repair, our series on the climate crisis. By host and…

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S5 E1: In the Beginning

  • January 24, 2022
A photo taken of Genesis 1:28 in the Christian Bible with several words glowing red. Photo: John Biewen. Edit: Mara Guevarra.

The climate emergency is here. In the first four episodes of our series, we explore the questions: How did we break so bad? How did we become the kind of society that would unleash so…

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S5 E11: Change Everything

  • December 15, 2021
Season 5 art by Mara Guevarra. Episode image: Merriam-Webster online Dictionary, image editing by Mara Guevarra.

In our Season 5 finale: What’s the cultural transformation we need to make—in the West, and the U.S. in particular—to live in good health with the rest of the natural world and with each other?…

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S5 E10: The Power Structure, Not the Energy Source

  • December 8, 2021

The first of two concluding episodes in Season 5, in which we focus on solutions. In Part 10 of The Repair, we look at the actions and policies that people need to push for —now…

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S5 E9: Pachamama

  • December 1, 2021

In several countries around the world, including Ecuador, New Zealand, and the U.S., some people are trying to protect the planet using a legal concept called “rights of nature”—infusing the law with Indigenous understandings of…

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tripgabriel Trip Gabriel @tripgabriel ·
3 Jul

"The Chinese simply can’t believe their luck...

OBBB 'virtually guarantees that China will own the future of solar, wind power and electric cars and trucks, as well as autonomous vehicles'

'And why? Because Rs view those as “liberal” energy sources'

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2 Jul

To be clear, 65 million is the number of Latinos in America, many of whom are citizens. This is beyond standard MAGA xenophobia, it is is a call for ethnic extermination.

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3 Jul

These allegations are horrific. If this was an American prison it would violate the 8th Amendment. This is absolutely cruel and unusual punishment. Nobody should try to rationalize or justify this kind of treatment.

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24 Jun

‘If the risk of a plane crashing was as high as the risk of the Amoc collapsing, none of us would ever fly because they would not let the plane take off. … That we’re still continuing business as usual is mindblowing.’ From @DoctorVive https://www.theguardian.com/environment/ng-interactive/2025/jun/24/tipping-points-climate-crisis-expert-doomerism-wealth

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26 Jun

I just wrote 'Capture the Flag?: Keeping ScOR #9'.

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