Counterpunch managing editor Joshua Frank has a provocative new book out. Bad Energy, which outlines the environmental and human pitfalls of the capitalist-led green energy transition.
He compellingly argues that replacing fossil fuel consumption with increased mining for precious metals, massive solar fields and wind farms, and speculative nuclear technology from the U.S. military-industrial complex isn’t going to save us.
Related Links
Bad Energy: The AI Hucksters, Rogue Lithium Extractors, and Wind Industrialists Who Are Selling Off Our Future (Haymarket Books, 2026)
Killing the Planet to Save It, Counterpunch
Green Energy Is Coming for the Desert, The Intercept
Degrowth offers a path to a truly just global energy transition, Canada’s National Observer
PM Mark Carney pledged to ‘Buy Canadian.’ Since then, $7.8 billion in contracts went to American corporations, Toronto Star
