Joshua Frank
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- Aug 28, 2026
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Vampire Planet: Of Ecocide and Empire (opens the original)
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Fire at the Shahran Oil Depot in northwestern Tehran following an Israeli airstrike on March 7th, one of several facilities struck in the vicinity while around thirty oil storage and processing sites were attacked across the country. Source: @sentdefender When we talk about war, it’s usually in numbers. Innocents and soldiers killed. Bombs dropped. Money spent. We hear figures like 7.6 million and 37.5 billion. There are so many like this that they often feel meaningless, even with context. In t
Vampire Planet: What the Story of China's and Australia's Solar Success Gets Wrong (opens the original)
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Typically, I kick this column off with troubling news, but let’s begin with a positive for a change. Australia’s solar is booming. A total of 40% of residential homes are equipped with rooftop solar, by far the highest rate in the world. Rooftop generation is the way to go, and accounts for 14% of the country’s total electricity generation. That’s obviously a very good thing, made possible by federal rebate programs and local incentives. The US could learn a lot from how Australia has pulled it
Vampire Planet: Killing in the Name of ... Climate Change (opens the original)
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Rio Tinto’s Borax Mine, in Boron, California. Photo by Colby Groves. It’s dry, hot, and windy. The dust is swirling. My buddy Colby and I are in the heart of the blazing Mojave to visit California’s most expansive open-pit mine. Owned and operated by the Australian mining goliath Rio Tinto, the pit, which produces a mineral called borate, is uncomfortably large, stretching two miles long, 1¾ miles wide, and 755 feet deep. According to the Rio Tinto guide that let us through the gates (of hell?),
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