Can Alaska balance its oil interests with the need to limit climate change? - The Economist
Can Alaska balance its oil interests with the need to limit climate change?
Our weekly podcast on democracy in America. This week an update from the American Arctic, exploring the tension between the desire to drill and taking climate action
In June 2022 Charlotte Howard took a reporting trip to Alaska to consider how that state is grappling with the desire to drill for oil, and the need to protect its fragile climate from a warming world. We’ve updated the story—which we first ran as a mini-series at the end of last year—to publish on our holiday break. These are those two episodes back-to-back, along with news of some big developments since they were first broadcast.
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