Tag results for: climate change
Storytelling Will Save the Earth
Picture the world 4.4°C hotter than preindustrial levels by the end of this century. That was one of the IPCC’s sixth assessment report predictions for scenarios with either...
A New EU Rule Can Expose Greenwashers
In 2023, all companies listed on regulated markets in the European Union will begin applying the Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive (CSRD), a new rule that will require them...
The Infinite Cloud Is a Fantasy
Since the turn of the millennium, the tech industry has spent billions to conjure a seductive narrative that the cloud—a term most nontechnical people use to mean everything...
The Future Could Be Blissful—If Humans Don’t Go Extinct First
Or we might want to have strong regulation around which AI systems are deployed, such that you can only use it if you really understand what’s going on...
Humanity’s Biggest Problems Require a Whole New Media Mode
Our media systems are at their limits. From climate change to Covid, the most pressing phenomena of our times cannot be captured by the flat media paradigm we’ve...
How Do You Know a Cargo Ship Is Polluting? It Makes Clouds
If you have a habit of perusing satellite imagery of the world’s oceans—and who doesn’t, really?—you might get lucky and spot long, thin clouds, like white slashes across...
