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Kate Aronoff

Kate Aronoff is a staff writer at The New Republic. She is the author of Overheated: How Capitalism Broke the Planet—and How We Fight Back, and co-author of A Planet to Win: Why We Need a Green New Deal. Kate is also a fellow at The Roosevelt Institute, and serves in Dissent’s editorial board.

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March 5, 2021
Kate Aronoff
Call the Fossil Fuel Industry’s Net-Zero Bluff
Nothing in the history of the oil and gas industry suggests we should take its word for it on climate.
March 3, 2021
Kate Aronoff
The Dark Side of Bill Gates’s Climate Techno-Optimism
Innovation can be extremely unequal.
February 27, 2021
Kate Aronoff
The Paris Agreement Is Already Outdated
Countries’ pledges to meet climate goals are nowhere near what they need to be.
February 25, 2021
Kate Aronoff
The Case for a Permanent Stimulus
Climate change guarantees more crises ahead. Relief measures should kick in automatically.
February 19, 2021
Kate Aronoff
Texas’s Energy Crisis Is America’s Future
The state’s fossil fuel–based power grid failed. The Green New Deal can fix it.
February 16, 2021
Kate Aronoff
Conservatives Are Seriously Accusing Wind Turbines of Killing People in the Texas Blackouts
Tucker Carlson and others are using the deadly storm to attack wind power, but the state’s independent, outdated grid and unreliable natural gas generation are to blame.
January 29, 2021
Kate Aronoff
Can We All Stop Trusting the Market Now?
GameStop is a great example of why we shouldn’t let the Invisible Hand tackle climate change.
January 28, 2021
Kate Aronoff
Here’s What Happens When Every Government Vehicle Is Electric
Joe Biden’s pledge to green the federal fleet could remake transportation—or not. It’s all in the execution.
January 26, 2021
Kate Aronoff
The Fossil Fuel Industry Thinks It Will Have a Good Year Under Biden
Without a big push to decarbonize, economic recovery means more business for oil companies.
January 25, 2021
Kate Aronoff
Right to Work on a Hot Planet
Labor and climate campaigners quite literally share a common enemy. The name often ends in Koch.
January 22, 2021
Kate Aronoff
Sea Shanties and the Whale Oil Myth
Oil companies like to point to the demise of the whaling industry as an example of market-based energy solutions. The reality is much more complicated.
January 21, 2021
Kate Aronoff
Will Biden’s China Hawks Destroy His Climate Ambitions?
All executive departments and agencies are now gearing up to fight climate change. But you can’t fight climate change without China.
January 14, 2021
Kate Aronoff
How to Fight Climate Change and Fascists at the Same Time
Democracy reform is the first step toward a sustainable future.
January 13, 2021
Kate Aronoff
Fossil Fuel Companies Are No Friend to Democracy
BP and other companies have expressed outrage over the Capitol riot, but they have a history of supporting authoritarians in other countries.
January 8, 2021
Kate Aronoff
Exxon Mobil Is Twisting Itself in Knots to Justify Pumping Even More Oil
In its annual Energy and Carbon Summary, the oil company offers a bizarre account of how it’s going to help address climate change while increasing production.
January 6, 2021
Kate Aronoff
“Bipartisanship” Is Climate Poison
The last time Democrats controlled Washington, they blew their chance to address climate change. Will Joe Biden and Joe Manchin repeat the party’s mistakes?
January 4, 2021
Kate Aronoff
The Bungled Vaccine Rollout Is a Bad Omen
America’s disastrous response to Covid-19 is an unsettling preview of how it might respond to the climate change crisis.
December 30, 2020
Kate Aronoff
The Pragmatism of the Radical Climate Left
The Georgia runoff shows that climate activists are more practical and strategic than Democrats give them credit for.
December 29, 2020
Kate Aronoff
How to Make the Paris Agreement Really Work
The climate accord will only succeed if the Biden administration can think outside of it.
December 24, 2020
Kate Aronoff
Carbon Capture Is Not a Climate Savior
The promise of negative emissions is baked into most “net zero” pledges. But putting that into practice is easier said than done.

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