Category: Environment

Life on a Warming Planet

Endless Summer What’s really causing all this year’s extreme weather? Rachel Cleetus on rising temperatures, billions in damages, and the climate’s uncertain future. Shashank Sahay June, July, and August were the hottest three-month span in human history. By the end of summer in the northern hemisphere, more than 110 […]

Climate: Extreme heat

Summer is coming to an end, and what a summer it has been. The various catastrophes that scientists had warned about—extreme heat, flooding, wildfires—hit full-tilt over the past few months.   Yesterday we recapped the summer in 10 alarming maps and graphs, and below, we’ve gathered the essential […]

De-Gamify The Earth

Caitlin Johnstone Aug 18, 2023 Listen to a reading of this article (reading by Tim Foley): Basically the problem is that our whole planet has been gamified. All the Earth’s life, resources and geography have been folded into this sick game where people commodify them into points called […]

Real Alternatives to Fossil Fuels

The response to our latest animated series, Fueling a Freer Future, has been incredible. In our first videos, we reframed the energy debate with a focus on human thriving, highlighting many of the myths that surround the politicized push for so-called green energy. In our newest episode, we […]

When will humans go extinct?

Devika  Rao When will humans go extinct? Rafi  Schwartz Is Florida’s new PragerU deal a sign of things to come? Advertisement From Wisebread Earn $200 After Spending $500 Brendan  Morrow Woody Allen, Roman Polanski to bring new movies to Venice Film Festival Justin  Klawans Hollywood’s wealth disparity by […]

Are shark attacks really on the rise?

Brigid  Kennedy Will Threads kill Twitter? Joel  Mathis Biden, the courts and the fight against disinformation Becca  Stanek Are in-flight credit card offers worth it? Advertisement from Wisebread Earn $200 After Spending $500 Justin  Klawans Are shark attacks really on the rise? Brendan  Morrow Who is Taylor Swift […]

Just Breathe

How to inhale and exhale, and why it’s getting harder and harder. Andrew Sullivan Jun 30, 2023 (Getty Images) Among my very first memories was struggling to catch a breath. Every spring in the Sussex woodlands I grew up around, the pollen descended like an invisible mist, and […]

Of COURSE Greta Met With Zelensky

Caitlin Johnstone Jun 29, 2023   Listen to a reading of this article (reading by Tim Foley): Foreign conflicts in the 2020s are always like, USA: Let’s militarily encircle this large nation  Large Nation: Hey stop  USA: Let’s heavily arm proxy forces right on their border  Large Nation: […]

The Green Energy Lie

On the newest episode of Fueling a Freer Future, we take on the wishful thinking of environmental activists who suggest that the only thing stopping a global green energy revolution is a lack of political will. In our previous video, we looked at the qualities that make traditional […]