What They Don't Tell You About Electric Cars
·1341 words·7 mins
Discover what they don't tell you about electric vehicles: the hidden carbon debt, environmental displacement, recycling challenges, and more.
Environment
The Cost of Convenience: Part 5—Environmental Debt: Cheap Now, Expensive Forever
·2265 words·11 mins
Exploring the deferred environmental costs of convenient consumption and linear economies.
The Cost of Convenience: Invisible Externalities Everywhere
·334 words·2 mins
An exploration of the hidden costs and externalities of convenience in modern systems, from design philosophy to political economy.
Capitalism Unmasked - Part 14: The Myth of Growth
·719 words·4 mins
Questioning the gospel of endless economic growth - exploring its limits, costs, and whether we should worship GDP.
Capitalism Unmasked - Part 10: The Hidden Costs of 'Free' Markets
·700 words·4 mins
Exposing the externalities and hidden costs that market prices don't capture - from environmental destruction to social breakdown.
The Spark of Ages - Part 2: Shattering the Myths of Geography and Genetics
·1357 words·7 mins
Dismantling the myths that geography and genetics determine civilizational success.
The Structural Post-Mortem - Part 7: The Lake Peigneur Disaster: When 400 Feet (122 Meters) of Error Drained an Entire Lake
·744 words·4 mins
Surveying data from the 1980 Louisiana disaster reveal how coordinate errors can trigger cascading geological catastrophes with permanent environmental consequences.