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Source: Foreign Policy - the Global Magazine of News and Ideas


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Articles from this source (8)

On the Highway to Climate Hell

  2023-08-12 (or before) by in Foreign Policy - the Global Magazine of News and Ideas

The world's infrastructure was built for a climate that no longer exists.

  Tagged under: Climate Change | Housing


Will Washington Halt the Global Renaissance of Nuclear Power?

  2023-04-09 (or before) by in Foreign Policy - the Global Magazine of News and Ideas

Hopes to slash emissions using nuclear energy are being dashed by U.S. regulators.

  Tagged under: Nuclear Power | Climate Change | Net Zero


In Sri Lanka, Organic Farming Went Catastrophically Wrong

  2022-07-11 (or before) by in Foreign Policy - the Global Magazine of News and Ideas

A nationwide experiment is abandoned after producing only misery.

  Tagged under: Farming


Green Energy’s Dirty Secret: Its Hunger for African Resources

  2022-07-04 (or before) by in Foreign Policy - the Global Magazine of News and Ideas

The scramble for battery metals threatens to replicate one of the most destructive dynamics in global economic history.

  Tagged under: Batteries | Congo | China | Minerals | Africa | Colonialism


Why the Climate Panic About Africa Is Wrong

  2021-12-07 (or before) by in Foreign Policy - the Global Magazine of News and Ideas

Once again, the rich world sees Africans as a threat to the planet.

  Tagged under: Renewable Energy | Coal | Africa


Stimulus Is an Environmental Disaster Waiting to Happen

  2021-03-21 (or before) by in Foreign Policy - the Global Magazine of News and Ideas

A public jobs guarantee is the only way to provide economic recovery without endangering the climate.


The Chinese Communist Party Is an Environmental Catastrophe

  2020-08-19 (or before) by in Foreign Policy - the Global Magazine of News and Ideas

Political ambitions make China’s emissions growth inevitable even as the economy falters.


The Nobel Prize for Climate Catastrophe

  2020-01-28 (or before) by in Foreign Policy - the Global Magazine of News and Ideas

The economist William Nordhaus will receive his profession’s highest honor for research on global warming that’s been hugely influential—and entirely misguided.


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