I've lived most of my life in the shadow of the Inglewood Oil Field, but didn't give it much thought until recently. In Noema Magazine, I explore the past, present, and future of oil drilling in Los Angeles. (Photo from outside my house this morning) noemamag.com/its-oil-that-m…

Nation-states are no longer fit for purpose to create a habitable future for humans and nature. Which political system is? aeon.co/essays/why-pla…

It’s Oil That Makes LA Boil #Climate #Pollution #CA noemamag.com/its-oil-that-m…

BI's Planetary Program Director, Jonathan Blake, on a new architecture of planetary sapience that’s enabling and hastening the green transition. via Noema Magazine #ThePlanetary

“Even after the eventual political and legal triumph over the fossil fuel industry, every oil well needs to be plugged and the whole of Inglewood Oil Field must undergo environmental remediation — an expensive and lengthy process.”⁩ h/t California Sun⁩ noemamag.com/its-oil-that-m…

Check out this history of oil extraction in LA 👇

Great piece Jonathan Blake on the oil past and present of Los Angeles - will the city have a post-oil future? Noema Magazine noemamag.com/its-oil-that-m…

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2. "It’s Oil That Makes LA Boil" Jonathan Blake "The weird thing about growing up in oil country was that I had no idea I was growing up in oil country." noemamag.com/its-oil-that-m…

So cool to be included on this list!

"If you’re stuck in traffic here, you can curse the decaying diatoms of eons past... Or perhaps it is fairer to blame the oilmen who coaxed liquified fossils to the surface." Enjoyed this Noema Magazine feature on LA's history of oil production/consumption. noemamag.com/its-oil-that-m…

This is excellent: It’s Oil That Makes LA Boil by Jonathan Blake noemamag.com/its-oil-that-m… via Peter Rubin

‘The weird thing about growing up in oil country was that I had no idea I was growing up in oil country. I thought we lived in Hollywood. But before LA became Tinseltown, it was an oil town.’ And, behind concealed walls, it still is. By @jonathansblake: noemamag.com/its-oil-that-m…

It's Oil That Makes LA Boil dlvr.it/TBhkpp

"How do we recalibrate or reinvent basically everything to live under this new condition?" 🎙️ Listen to Jonathan Blake on Los Angeles Review of Books podcast: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/wri… This recording was from a panel discussion titled "Writing Climate Futures" co-hosted by BI & LARB

On July 18, LARB and Berggruen Institute hosted a panel discussion titled “Writing Climate Futures,” featuring David Wallace-Wells, Jenny Offill, Bharat Venkat, and Jonathan Blake. Listen to the full conversation in this special #LARBRadioHour episode today: lareviewofbooks.org/av/writing-cli…

Wolfgang Blau Hedwig Richter Great to be reading great books! I hope Ursula von der Leyen is also reading “Children of a modest star” by Blake / Gilman - necessary reading for crafting better futures.

This was such a great event to be part of — glad it’s available to the listening public!

Recommended!