Merging to Survive • Ashok Kumar
As the fossil fuel industry consolidates into an ever smaller number of vast firms, new strategic openings for disruption emerge.
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DISPATCH: The Desert and the Mine • Sam Meadows
The Lithium Triangle, spanning Argentina, Bolivia and Chile, contains over half the world’s lithium reserves, essential for the energy transition. But mining here is fraught with human, cultural, political and ecological questions.
• 13 min read
The Sunlight Managers • Sofia Menemenlis
By deploying the language of objectivity while evading questions about the social relations that underlie the climate crisis, the science profession is granting legitimacy to a dangerous idea: solar geoengineering.
• 18 min read
DISPATCH: Resistance on the Attawapiskat • Omar Ferwati, Nessie Nankivell
In northern Ontario, a region rich in mineral deposits has become a frontline in the fight for Indigenous sovereignty.
• 15 min read
Bog Communism • Roisin Agnew
Ireland’s bogs were degraded by industrial exploitation. Today, they play host to a growing network of data centres. Can we reclaim them as commons, and restore their value—cultural, social and ecological—outside of capital’s logic?