Robinson Meyer
A New Way of Thinking About Climate Change
Introducing Atlantic Planet
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Getty / The Atlantic Why Ford’s New Electric Car Is So Important
I spent a weekend in the Mustang Mach-E, Ford’s biggest bet so far on a zero-carbon future.
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Education Images / Universal Images Group / Getty Greenland’s Rare-Earth Election
A vote last month answered an important question about the world’s largest island.
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Joe Sohm / Visions of America / Universal … Why Dead Trees Are ‘the Hottest Commodity on the Planet’
Blame climate change, wildfires, hungry beetles … and Millennial home buyers.
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The Atlantic / Getty The Weekly Planet: An Outdated Idea Is Still Shaping Climate Policy
Biden’s team is split on how to think about climate change.
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Jim Wilson / The New York Times / … The Weekly Planet: The 1 Thing to Understand About Biden’s Infrastructure Plan
This is the only climate bill coming. Also: Why methane levels surged last year.
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VCG / Getty The Weekly Planet: 3 Ways That Biden Could Green the Financial System
“If it actually looks seriously like the world is gonna cut carbon emissions in half by 2030, you could, overnight, see fire sales of fossil-fuel assets.”
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Grimes The Weekly Planet: Why Celebrities Are Agog Over This Tiny Climate Think Tank
A one-of-a-kind Washington nonprofit has become a hit with musicians selling crypto-art.
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For Subscribers: The most interesting problem in the world
Our science desk is working through new ways to cover climate change—and give readers a guide to life in the difficulties brought on by a warming planet.
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Matthew Staver / The New York Times / … The Weekly Planet: Why a Climate-Denial Coalition May Be Cracking Apart
And the world’s largest polluter plans its next five years.
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NIAID / The Atlantic Why the Pandemic Experts Failed
We’re still thinking about pandemic data in the wrong ways.
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Constantine Manos / Magnum The Weekly Planet: Biden’s Stimulus Is a Big Deal for Public Transit
Why the rescue bill is (sort of) a climate bill
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Jared Rodriguez The Weekly Planet: Why a Political Philosopher Is Thinking About Carbon Removal
Rich countries should mop up their climate pollution, the Georgetown professor Olúfẹ́mi Táíwò argues.
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Justin Sullivan / Getty The Weekly Planet: The Great Climate Bill of 2021 Is Being Shaped Now
The game before the game has started.
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Tamir Kalifa / The New York Times / … Texas Failed Because It Did Not Plan
What went wrong? The Lone Star State made three fundamental errors.
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Jamie McCarthy / Getty Images for Bill & … The Weekly Planet: The Big Idea From Bill Gates’s New Climate Book
Call it the “Gates Rule.”
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Ali Al Robaee / EyeEm / Getty The Weekly Planet: Hail! It’s America’s Most Underrated Climate Risk
It’s smashing, in the bad way.
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courtesy of GM A Super Bowl Ad That the Biden Presidency Made Possible
GM has cast its electric vehicles as normal American cars, in a normal Super Bowl ad. Here are seven ways to think about that.
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Greg Smith/CORBIS/Corbis/Getty The Weekly Planet: A New Idea for Fighting Climate Change: Retirement Plans!
If you’re retiring in the 2060s, you should make sure you can enjoy the 2060s.
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Getty / The Atlantic The Pandemic Is Heading Toward a Strange In-Between Time
Americans can plan for the pandemic’s end in the fall. What happens between now and then?
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Jorg Greuel / Getty The Weekly Planet: Why Biden Is Buying 645,000 New Cars
The president’s most interesting climate proposal yet hasn’t appeared in an executive order.
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