The Crucial Years

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Special Vermont Resistance edition
Lucy Welch, a hero for the moment.
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Um, I think we all just won
Biden is halting the biggest fossil fuel expansion on earth
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The LA Fires and the Big Bang
The human quest for knowledge, and the descent into willful blindness
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Pushing Back, Short-Term and Long
How to Make Progress Part II
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For reality
A few thoughts on the last day of the old world
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Give Joe Some Room
If it's time to withdraw he will--and in the process perhaps reshape our politics
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The FDR era comes to an end
And so we will need to build the next new thing under the sun
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'Where Should I Live?'
In a terrifying summer, a search for safety
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We Interrupt the Ongoing Crisis for a Smidgen of Good News
DeepSeek Shakes the Stupidity of the Tech-Industrial Complex
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Tesla, Big Oil have a weakness in common
They're way behind the technological curve
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How We Make Progress Now
Part 1: Some Limits We Need to Work Around
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The Dumbest Climate Conversation of All Time
Trump and Musk. No more need be said, but I will.
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