Climate Change Archives - Public Books https://www.publicbooks.org/section/climate-change/ a magazine of ideas, arts, and scholarship Sat, 17 Jan 2026 02:16:53 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 https://www.publicbooks.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/cropped-favicon-2-300x300.png Climate Change Archives - Public Books https://www.publicbooks.org/section/climate-change/ 32 32 Public Thinker: Infrastructure Tells Us That We Need One Another https://www.publicbooks.org/infrastructure-tells-us-that-we-need-one-another/ Thu, 18 Jul 2024 15:00:20 +0000 https://www.publicbooks.org/?p=56665 “Seeing infrastructural systems for what they are requires us to understand them as the product of massive collective investment and to reflect on the value of that.”

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]]> Eating Out in the Apocalypse https://www.publicbooks.org/eating-out-in-the-apocalypse/ Tue, 21 May 2024 15:00:25 +0000 https://www.publicbooks.org/?p=56153 Can pleasure take place against the backdrop of climate crisis?

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]]> Is the World Enough? https://www.publicbooks.org/is-the-world-enough/ Thu, 28 Mar 2024 15:00:38 +0000 https://www.publicbooks.org/?p=55616 Is our relation to the earth mainly a story of scarcity, of insatiable wants curbed by a finite planet?

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]]> South Africa: Living in a Future Way Ahead of Our Time https://www.publicbooks.org/south-africa-living-in-a-future-way-ahead-of-our-time/ Tue, 14 Nov 2023 16:00:49 +0000 https://www.publicbooks.org/?p=53921 “The human capacity for oxymoronic optimism will literally take your breath away if you’re among the millions living downwind from the dumps.”

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]]> Oil and Injury in Los Angeles https://www.publicbooks.org/oil-and-injury-in-los-angeles/ Tue, 17 Oct 2023 15:00:36 +0000 https://www.publicbooks.org/?p=53744 The city’s ports may be physically located in the imperial core—inside the barricades of the USA—but their tendrils span the globe.

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]]> Five Books on Labor and Ecology https://www.publicbooks.org/five-books-on-labor-and-ecology/ Mon, 25 Sep 2023 15:00:18 +0000 https://www.publicbooks.org/?p=53358 Our scorching planetary age results from the conjoined forces of colonial extractivism, fossil capitalism, and postcolonial developmentalism.

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]]> All Futures Are Possible https://www.publicbooks.org/all-futures-are-possible/ Fri, 10 Feb 2023 16:00:41 +0000 https://www.publicbooks.org/?p=51289 “It is fanciful to invest too much faith in the isolated act of reading – the stimulated, inspired or entertained brain does not store carbon.”

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]]> Can Solarpunk Save the World? https://www.publicbooks.org/can-solarpunk-save-the-world/ Tue, 15 Nov 2022 16:00:49 +0000 https://www.publicbooks.org/?p=50641 Today, solar power merely fuels capitalism and imperialism. But drawing power from the sun is so radical it might transform that status quo.

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]]> How to Profit from Climate Change https://www.publicbooks.org/how-to-profit-from-climate-change/ Wed, 09 Nov 2022 16:00:22 +0000 https://www.publicbooks.org/?p=50798 How did capitalism waste the crucial decades when climate change could have been halted? By fixating on—and downplaying—“risk.”

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]]> Invitations to the Voyage https://www.publicbooks.org/invitations-to-the-voyage-ecological-poetry/ Thu, 15 Sep 2022 15:00:31 +0000 https://www.publicbooks.org/?p=49977 Three new poetry collections depart on a cosmic journey to reckon with ecology and our relations to a suffering earth.

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