We know it's too late avoid climate change consequences. In some ways, we must adapt. And when we do, it will be important to listen to the people impacted. It sounds obvious, but some multinational corporations would rather impose foreign solutions -- whether they're appropriate or not. Today we talk to Lizzie Yarina, a doctoral candidate in the MIT Department of Urban Studies and Planning and a Research Fellow at the MIT Leventhal Center for Advanced Urbanism. She explains how bad ideas perpetuate, and how we can tap local wisdom to break the pattern. Listen to the show and then read her piece in Places Journal, Your Sea Wall Won’t Save You. She travels to four Southeast Asian megacities -- Bangkok, Manila, Ho Chi Minh City and Jakarta -- to show us the problem.

Today we're going to be talking about a problem with electric vehicles -- as much as they're a key to a sustainable future, there's a big problem. We rely on mining companies for the nickel, lithium, cobalt and other minerals needed to make them, and most mining companies are bad news for local communities and ecologies. Today we're talking to Ian Morse and Pius Ginting, who've been all over Indonesia, one of the global mining industry's hot spots, exposing the behavior of mining companies and the victims they create. Ian is a freelance journalist based in Seattle, and writes a Substack called Green Rocks. He calls it a newsletter that doesn't want dirty mining to ruin clean energy. Pius is the coordinator of Action for Ecology and People Emancipation, an environmental watchdog group based in Jakarta, Indonesia's capital. He's the coauthor of a recent report called "Fast and Furious for Future: The dark side of electric battery vehicle components and their impacts in Indonesia".

Megan is a former energy regulator for the U.S. government, and that means she's seen up close what an incredible mess the petroleum people intend to leave behind when they're done. It's a forever problem, but Megan has a solution -- create a new government entity to clean up old oil wells and keep them sealed for good. And, make the oil companies pay for it. After you listen to her talk about it, please read on in her piece at Current Affairs, The Wreckage of the Last Energy Epoch: Abandoned Wells and Workers. It's an absolutely amazing piece of writing.