Category: Less of What We Don’t Need

Over the first four months of 2025, 56 Norwegian citizens convened to discuss how Norway’s immense oil wealth can best serve current and future generations, both domestically and globally. Unlike traditional policymaking, where elected officials and experts call the shots, this so-called Future Panel – the second such assembly held in Norway – allowed ordinary…

An honest and imperfect response to the climate crisis would require a political, behavioural, economic and moral transition that would systematically reduce our energy and material consumption at an unprecedented pace. But that’s not an action any modern politician seems to be able to contemplate, let alone discuss.

Gov. Kathy Hochul justified a $1 billion natural gas project by appealing to affordability. But the main reason the state needs the energy is because data centers are hogging it. The true beneficiary of the natural gas pipeline Gov. Kathy Hochul (D-NY) approved earlier this month won’t be ratepayers, as she claims, but tech companies…

In late 2024, Brazilian federal police dismantled a sprawling illegal gold mining network in Pará, exposing a criminal enterprise that stretched far beyond the rainforest. The operation, part of a broader crackdown on illicit mining in Indigenous territories, uncovered links to money laundering via shell companies and fraudulent permits, with funds traced to accounts in…

Dharavi, known as Asia’s largest slum, is very unique. It has migrants from states like Bihar Uttar Pradesh, Bengal, Tamil Nadu, Andhra Pradesh and Gujarat making it multi-ethnic. There is a diversity of occupations carried out in Dharavi, from garments and apparel, leather goods manufacturing, and waste recycling to pottery and snack making. In addition…

Hiroshima, Nagasaki, Chernobyl, Fukushima: these are names that send shivers down our spines. The first two remind us of the atrocities that can result from a war involving nuclear weapons; the latter two highlight the danger posed by one of the most dangerous technologies in existence: nuclear power.

Common chemicals in plastics, personal care products, and food packaging may drive the onset, growth, and spread of breast cancer—the second-leading cause of cancer deaths in women, new research suggests. Breast cancer is one of the most common and deadly cancers worldwide, causing more than 42,000 deaths in the U.S, with particularly high rates among…

Americans are once again demanding higher standards for the food they eat, insisting that companies stop using chemicals known to harm health. But instead of listening to their customers, the world’s largest food and beverage companies have launched a “transparency” campaign – fronted by a longtime tobacco industry ally – and they are betting their…

pro-nuclear leftists argue that the centralized nature of nuclear is necessary for taking action on climate change and working toward a decarbonized environment; that the workforce for nuclear power in North America is heavily unionized; that nuclear power is more reliable than renewables; that new nuclear technology is safer and cleaner

The solar panel supply chain follows the same mining sites, rail roads, factory facilities, and prison institutions that otherwise were core sites of liberation struggles in the 20th century. Low carbon infrastructures exist within the exact same system as high emission energy sources.