Incredible energy demands from AI data centres are threatening attempts to ween our societies off of fossil fuels.
@parismarx.com, journalist and host of Tech Won't Save us, explains the influence of AI on our energy mix.
Full episode: planetcritical.com
Why aren't we rioting?
Because we don't know who we would be without the conditions of our own oppression.
www.planetcritical.com/revolutionar...
Thank you! I'm really glad to know they're valuable.
When was the last time society was this unequal?
Probably under the Pharaohs, says former Minister of Finance, Andrés Velasco.
There's one point we didn't disagree on throughout this episode. Listen now: www.planetcritical.com/andres-velasco/
Do we need growth?
Andrés Velasco, Chile's former Minister of Finance, insists we do.
He calls for reform—not revolution.
But can these institutions be reformed?
Listen now: www.planetcritical.com/andres-velasco/
What does it mean to be free when our freedoms are curtailed? What does it mean to be free when our nature is limited? What does it mean to be free at all?
Huge thanks to @alybatt.bsky.social whose book Free Gifts inspired this meditation.
www.planetcritical.com/freedom-at-t...
The Founding Fathers were legal revolutionaries. But over two centuries on, the world needs an update.
The Founding Mothers is a movement dedicated to universal dignity, human rights, peace and ending war—through empowering women.
Listen now: www.planetcritical.com/laura-george/
Mexicans built a popular movement over a century of organising—and now they're using state power to finance revolutionary politics.
This is how Mexico City is building utopia.
Listen now: www.planetcritical.com/ashwin-ravikumar/
We're looking at global food shortages in coming weeks due to Trump's illegal war on Iran and their retaliation by derailing traffic through the strait of hormuz.
This is about so much more than oil. It's about how we feed the future.
Listen now: www.planetcritical.com/feeding-the-...
Thank you for reading it!
That feeling in your chest that threatens to crush your bones to dust? That's the fear and horror of billions of us. And it's why you can't make any of this singular moment of global unravelling make sense.
www.planetcritical.com/how-to-make-...
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I've read numerous articles characterising Epstein’s world as "paedophilic". But this analysis neglects how patriarchy actively works to undermine women’s empowerment in order to protect capital accumulation.
I discuss the connection in this week's newsletter: www.planetcritical.com/thin-shaved-...
The feminist political project in the heart of the Middle East, Rojava, is a fierce assertion that other worlds are possible.
They have defended their right to self-determination—for all our sakes.
Journalist Matt Broomfield has spent years there. Listen now:
www.planetcritical.com/rojava-the-f...
EXCLUSIVE: At more than 30 installations, U.S. commanders told troops the war on Iran is a Christian war.
The Military Religious Freedom Foundation has been “inundated” with more than 110 complaints.
One NCO said they were told the U.S. war is to bring about Armageddon and the return of Jesus…
I wrote about this Leftist phenomenon, and the history of Iran's oil politics, because this illegal conflict is going to be much longer than the last and we need to know the history to know where criticism is due. (Clue: Not at each other.)
Read it now: www.planetcritical.com/the-enemy-of...
Today I saw a Leftist publicly criticise another Leftist for mentioning Iran's reputation in a post expressing solidarity with the Iranian people.
We are never going to win ANY ground if it is more fashionable to take aim at each other than murderous regimes.
www.planetcritical.com/the-enemy-of...
How do we design liveable futures?
Architects @jeremytill.bsky.social and Tatiana Schneider on how "sustainable architecture" is not just falling short, but even contributing to the intersecting social, economic and climate crises.
Listen now: www.planetcritical.com/designing-li...
It hadn't even occurred to me that people might be interested in that.
@alybatt.bsky.social — I would love to interview you on the relationship between nature, reproductive labour and capitalism, and Free Gifts more broadly!
DMs open!
How about an op-ed on that for Byline?
Married women who took their partners’ names — around 69 million of them — will be especially impacted by a citizenship requirement. Their current names don’t match the names on their birth certificate–and only about half of women have a valid passport. In practice, it will be far more complicated for these women to ‘prove’ their citizenship. The surest option–a passport or a paper trail reconciling their married name with the name on their birth certificate–requires significant investments of time and money.
The SAVE Act requires citizenship ID to vote. It may be that some Republicans truly believe that lots of non-citizens are voting, but that is just not the reality.
So who will the law impact? People without ID docs and people whose ID docs are not current - which is mostly women.
This also goes for EX-SUBSTACKERS across all genres who left Substack for ethical reasons. The transition away from that recommendation ecosystem is *tough*. Let's build our own!
INDEPENDENT JOURNOS & CLIMATE PEOPLE ON GHOST: I want to simulate Substack's brilliant recommendation ecosystem. Please drop me your URL and let's recommend each other's sites. READERS: Same goes for the newsletters you love most!
I'm having a baby this summer. I believe the roots of the tense relationship between motherhood and feminism shine a light on how to liberate Earth from Man's violence.
www.planetcritical.com/females-vs-c...
Would be great if you read the update to the piece.
Sure: We recorded 2 weeks ago.
Lithium is branded as the cure-all to our fossil fuel dependence. But its history tells another story: that the solution to the world's problems is always more mining.
Make time for this astounding episode with history of science scholar Javiera Barandarian: www.planetcritical.com/javiera-bara...
Thank you!
Then you definitely should listen. That's the stuff I push back on.
