Can We Engineer a Livable Future?
Some scientists think we should slow climate change through carbon capture and solar geoengineering. Is that a gamble worth taking?
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Progress
“Only through the death of the old have new lineages achieved victory. [The worker] confronts violence with the sharp arrow of knowledge. With the weighty hammer of logic he drives a wedge into everything. Following eternal laws, he must be victorious in this fight, and thus he will liberate himself, the Prometheus of our time.”
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“More gender equality may have been achieved over the last several decades than progressives tend to think.”
Features
Clocking Out of the Second Shift
The official statistics show that gender gaps in the division of household labor have closed significantly over time. Why are so many women still so frustrated?
The Age of Regression
Born in the seventeenth century, our faith in progress is now at death’s door. Sociologist Göran Therborn traces the idea’s history — and argues that it must be revived.
What Comes After Globalization?
The world as we know it is a product of globalization — and this era of globalization might be coming to a close.
“Progress is not automatic, linear, and irreversible; it is something that has to be fought for.”
Front Matters
The Soapbox
Letters + The Internet Speaks
Struggle Session
Waves of the Future
“The real source of solarpunk’s inspiration, just like cyberpunk, is East Asia.”
Cultural Capital
“Twenty-five miles long and six miles wide, the Gaza Strip now has the world’s largest population of child amputees.”
The International
“As we’re quickly learning, the results of this reactionary futurism are chaotic at best.”
“We urgently need to counter the idea that workers suddenly have no federally protected organizing rights.”
