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A Season in (Bureaucratic) Hell
Japan welcomes newcomers with a wall of administrative nonsense
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Venezuela is living in the world General Pinochet's arrest created
On the appalling reason Nicolás Maduro will never give up power
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July 2024

I never meant to move to Tokyo
How a job offer blew up our carefully manicured lives in Montreal
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June 2024

The real reason greenhouse gas emissions keep rising
"Rising emissions" and "overcoming poverty" are two ways of saying the same thing
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Thinking about emissions like a developing country leader
Why fighting poverty is —and will remain— the biggest driver of emissions growth worldwide.
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May 2024

The climate decisions that matter are made in poor countries
First world climate debates aren't so much wrong as monumentally beside the point
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My 15-Minute City is Amazing
It’s not a climate solution. That's not the point.
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April 2024

Switzerland’s greenhouse gas emissions are a rounding error
A recent landmark court ruling shows the limits of emissions activism
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Why the best climate solutions don't get a hearing
You can't win an argument if you sound like a Bond villain.
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Introducing 1% Brighter
If the earth was 1% brighter, it would stop warming. If we were 1% brighter, we'd make it so.
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March 2024

Our climate taboos aren't rational
A climatologist from Andromeda would find our climate change debate properly insane.
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It's 45 degrees in the shade in South Sudan
And nobody has air conditioning.
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