Andrew Paul is Popular Science's staff writer covering tech news. Previously, he was a regular contributor to The A.V. Club and Input, and has had recent work featured by Rolling Stone, Fangoria, GQ, Slate, NBC, as well as McSweeney's Internet Tendency. He lives outside Indianapolis.
ArticleBody:Ten years ago, author Jeff VanderMeer released three haunting novels delving into the mysteries of Area X, an abandoned coastal region transformed by forces beyond human comprehension. The publication of Annihilation, Authority, and Acceptance earned him instant stardom within the science-fiction community for their explorations of environmental collapse, governmental dysfunction, and horror.
Even solar energy is being turned into an extractive industry. In Massachusetts, they’re choosing sites not based necessarily on suitability, but on the fact that they can also harvest the site for timber and do sand mining before they install the panels. You can begin to lose hope in the logic of these things under capitalism, because if even solar can be turned into something that's actually a negative for no good reason except for greed, then we really haven’t learned the lesson.
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