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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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June 4, 2020
Kate Aronoff
Defunding the Police Is Good Climate Policy
Budgets are about to get tight. States and cities should direct money to programs that truly make communities more secure.
June 2, 2020
Kate Aronoff
Is Puerto Rico About to Give Another Terrible Energy Contract to an American Company?
Prepa, the island’s electric power company, and FEMA have found themselves embroiled in scandal before.
May 27, 2020
Kate Aronoff
How Corporations Make Pandemics Deadlier
Lethal new diseases are springing up at alarming rates, and modern globalized capitalism is behind it.
May 21, 2020
Kate Aronoff
America’s Deadly Obsession With Intellectual Property
Privatizing lifesaving technology like vaccines and clean energy is bad for both the coronavirus and the climate crisis.
May 19, 2020
Kate Aronoff
How Democrats Can Win Coal Country—and the 2020 Election
The fossil fuel industry is hemorrhaging jobs in swing states.
May 15, 2020
Kate Aronoff
America Is Not as Resilient as It Thinks It Is
Whether in a pandemic or a hurricane, inequality and underfunded infrastructure are bad for disaster preparedness.
May 12, 2020
Kate Aronoff
There Are Green Jobs Hiding in the Oilfields
Paying oil workers to clean up extraction sites and capture carbon could help both the economy and the planet.
May 7, 2020
Kate Aronoff
The Oil Crash Could Be Geothermal’s Big Break
Geothermal power requires similar infrastructure and skills as fossil fuel extraction, which means laid-off oil workers could switch to greener work pretty easily.
May 6, 2020
Kate Aronoff
The Important Debate Planet of the Humans Misses
Instead of lambasting yesteryear’s renewable energy, the movie could have taken up current, more relevant questions.
May 1, 2020
Kate Aronoff
The Federal Reserve Is Accelerating the Climate Crisis
Bailing out money-losing fossil fuel companies is not sound economic policy.
April 29, 2020
Kate Aronoff
Give Me Meat and Give Them Death
Trump’s executive order requiring industrial meatpackers to keep operating is murder.
April 28, 2020
Kate Aronoff
Don’t Let Larry Summers Block Climate Progress Again
He torpedoed clean energy plans in the Obama administration. Now he’s advising Joe Biden.
April 27, 2020
Kate Aronoff
“Believe Science” Is a Bad Response to Denialism
Liberals’ glorification of expertise amid the coronavirus and climate crises reveals their own distrust of democracy.
April 22, 2020
Kate Aronoff
The World Order Is Broken. The Coronavirus Proves It.
Rich countries have pushed economic policies that set poor countries up to fail.
April 21, 2020
Kate Aronoff
The Urgent Message of Negative Oil Prices
A transition for at-risk fossil-fuel workers has to be at the heart of the next stimulus package.
April 11, 2020
Kate Aronoff
An Airline Bailout Should Have More Strings Attached Than a Harp
The industry was a hot mess before the coronavirus. Cash plus more deregulation will only make it worse.
April 8, 2020
Kate Aronoff
Does Big Oil Need Big Government to Survive?
For the first time in a while, Texas is considering curbing oil supply.
March 27, 2020
Kate Aronoff
Darling, Let’s Do Coronavirus in the Hamptons This Year
The rich continue their tradition of escapist virtue signaling.
March 20, 2020
Kate Aronoff
The Democrats Screwed Up
Nancy Pelosi and other party leaders have been outflanked by opponents embracing big spending ideas to address the coronavirus recession.
March 18, 2020
Kate Aronoff
Green Jobs Are the Answer to the Coronavirus Recession
The climate case for making the government the employer of last resort

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