<![CDATA[Stories by Ben Shread-Hewitt on Medium]]> https://medium.com/@benshreadhewitt?source=rss-e06d1e6e188a------2 https://cdn-images-1.medium.com/fit/c/150/150/1*bavJzmhlHSJgaKHeoDY3nQ.jpeg Stories by Ben Shread-Hewitt on Medium https://medium.com/@benshreadhewitt?source=rss-e06d1e6e188a------2 Medium Thu, 05 Nov 2026 18:20:35 GMT <![CDATA[The Dependency Paradox]]>

Going Green Might Mean Trading One Master for Another

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Myanmar’s newly discovered peatlands are almost 2000% bigger than we thought — now conflict might erase them.

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]]> https://medium.com/the-new-climate/myanmar-discovered-major-new-peatlands-now-civil-war-threatens-them-f8f809351744?source=rss-e06d1e6e188a------2 https://medium.com/p/f8f809351744 Fri, 21 Aug 2026 10:15:29 GMT 2026-08-21T10:15:29.939Z <![CDATA[European Agriculture Has Been Weakened Just as Its Biggest Shock Approaches]]>

Building resilience under existing strain is a tall order — but experts warn conditions will only worsen without investment

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]]> https://medium.com/the-new-climate/european-agriculture-has-been-weakened-just-as-its-biggest-shock-approaches-d5b850d7c245?source=rss-e06d1e6e188a------2 https://medium.com/p/d5b850d7c245 Mon, 17 Aug 2026 07:01:02 GMT 2026-08-17T07:01:02.984Z <![CDATA[Extremophiles]]>

What’s the purpose of a military in the era of Overshoot?

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]]> https://medium.com/policy-panorama/extremophiles-dc86d3db4bcb?source=rss-e06d1e6e188a------2 https://medium.com/p/dc86d3db4bcb Wed, 08 Jul 2026 15:56:01 GMT 2026-07-08T15:56:01.015Z <![CDATA[You Can Have Energy Sovereignty, If You Want It]]>

How the Hormuz Crisis is forcing nations to build the energy systems they should have built a decade ago

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]]> https://medium.com/the-new-climate/you-can-have-energy-sovereignty-if-you-want-it-c7c93ed46db7?source=rss-e06d1e6e188a------2 https://medium.com/p/c7c93ed46db7 Wed, 20 May 2026 08:27:37 GMT 2026-05-20T08:27:37.468Z <![CDATA[“THE GREAT 2020’s ENERGY SHOCK”]]>

On how the three big – and many little – energy crises of the 2020s may one day look like a single, decade-spanning catastrophe

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]]> https://medium.com/the-geopolitical-economist/the-great-2020s-energy-shock-8c95b0de86e2?source=rss-e06d1e6e188a------2 https://medium.com/p/8c95b0de86e2 Thu, 14 May 2026 22:01:00 GMT 2026-05-14T22:02:00.862Z <![CDATA[Landless Lands: Is there a Future for ‘Post-Territorial’ States?]]>

As states, including small island nations, become uninhabitable post-1.5 degrees, people and culture face permanent exile.

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]]> https://medium.com/the-new-climate/landless-lands-is-there-a-future-for-post-territorial-states-097d38d9e50d?source=rss-e06d1e6e188a------2 https://medium.com/p/097d38d9e50d Mon, 27 Apr 2026 10:32:25 GMT 2026-05-06T10:38:59.308Z <![CDATA[The Myth of Perfect Harmony: What Indigenous Cultures Really Teach Us About Being Ecological]]>

Indigenous peoples reshaped ecosystems, sometimes destructively, but their path to balance offers vital climate lessons.

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]]> https://medium.com/the-environment/the-myth-of-perfect-harmony-what-indigenous-cultures-really-teach-us-about-being-ecological-43ee9e5fb847?source=rss-e06d1e6e188a------2 https://medium.com/p/43ee9e5fb847 Sat, 25 Apr 2026 10:21:34 GMT 2026-04-25T10:21:34.829Z <![CDATA[Is ‘Apocalyptic’ Language Part of the Problem?]]>

From rising GDP losses to ecosystem collapse, climate reports are stacking up fast. But our words make little distinction between a bad…

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]]> https://medium.com/the-new-climate/is-apocalyptic-language-part-of-the-problem-88ac21ab6428?source=rss-e06d1e6e188a------2 https://medium.com/p/88ac21ab6428 Tue, 31 Mar 2026 09:14:38 GMT 2026-03-31T09:14:38.064Z <![CDATA[The Petrostate Proxy War]]>

Saudi Arabia and the UAE are fighting over a future neither can afford to lose

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