Stan Cox

Stan Cox is the author of seven books, including  The Green New Deal and Beyond: Ending the Climate Emergency While We Still Can  and Losing Our Cool: Uncomfortable Truths About Our Air-Conditioned World. He lives in Salina, Kansas.

An Engineer, an Economist, and an Ecomodernist Walk Into a Bar and Order a Free Lunch . . .

For Climate Mobilization, Look to 1960s Vietnam Before Turning to 1940s America

Cornucopian Renewable-Energy Claims Leave Poor Nations in the Dark

Betting the Earth on a Game of Wrap-Cut-Smash

Are Driverless Cars a Good Way to Help Stop Greenhouse Warming, or Is Greenhouse Warming a Good Pretext for Selling Driverless Cars?

The Merkley-Sanders Climate Bill Isn’t a Launchpad, It’s Quicksand

For Climate Justice, It’s the 33 Percent Who’ll Have to Pick Up the Tab

Can the Climate Survive Electoral Democracy? Maybe. Can It Survive Capitalism? No.

If There’s a World War II-Style Climate Mobilization, It has to Go All the Way—and Then Some

NPR’s Gas Pains

Life After the Exit Ramp

Fair Shares of Food

Visions of the Future: Mad Max, Star Trek, Big Brother or Ecotopia?

Rationing for Earth Day

The Vertical Farming Scam

Can Air Conditioning Save You?

When Juan Williams Said Something Worse

Why People Get Hot Under the Collar About Air Conditioning

Militarism, Torture … and Air Conditioning?

The Inflated Promise of Natural Gas

Biofuel’s Drug Problem

There’s No Free Lunch on Your Browser

India’s Fragile New Temples

Clothes and Commentaries That Don’t Fit

Take a Holiday…From Clothes Shopping

Keep the Germ Labs Quarantined

Let’s Handcuff the Property Cops

Needed for the future: new hardware

Broken Agriculture

Big Brother Close Up

Green as a Blackjack Table

The Germs Next Door

The Depressing Truth About Anti-Depressants

The Ignored Risks of Fluoroquinolones

The Antiwar Majority

1040s and Death Certificates

Down-to-a-Trickle Economics

Under the Brown Cloud

Real Bad ID

Presidential Doping Scandal Erupts

Marching Plague

The Lawn Racket

The Real Death Tax

Making and Unmaking History with General Myers

Outsourcing the Golden Years

"Agroterrorists" Needn’t Bother

Red, White and Blue Dawn

Did You Know This About Iraq?

Kreationism in Kansas

India’s Pharmacuetical Industry: Warning! Side Effects May Be Severe