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John Cassidy’s “How Markets Fail” explains how and why Hayek and his fellow free market advocates were cranks

If the push for economic growth contributes to another crash, we may decide that we’re better off without it

Making plastic bottles, and transporting the filled bottles around, is a huge energy hog, according to a recent study

The planet is getting hotter and more crowded, energy supplies may soon get tighter, and yet billions of people seem to want a consumer lifestyle that's completely unsustainable. Things aren't looking good.

It seems like a long shot that we're going to somehow solve all these problems and generate enough food, fuel, and stuff to satisfy people's wants. That's why we've got to think about what to do if the world fails at this. We can fail catastrophically, or we can fail gracefully—it's up to us.

Hi, I'm Mason Inman (bio & contact), a journalist from the U.S. who's currently based in Pakistan. I cover science and the environment for magazines and websites like National Geographic News, Science, and New Scientist. My articles are here, plus my thoughts on failing gracefully and resilience.

New study finds that extreme approaches work best, but come with risks

Efforts to keep warming to no more than 2 degrees Celsius won’t be enough to avoid scorchers, study says

The country’s current floods are far worse because of decades of river and floodplain mismanagement, experts say

a chapter by Richard Heinberg from “The Post Carbon Reader”

a blog post by marketing guru Seth Godin

Chapter 5 of “Profit from the Peak” by Brian Hicks and Chris Nelder

—Michael MacCracken of the Climate Institute

— Elizabeth Kolbert on climate change

—Carl McDaniel and John Gowdy