Joshua Frank
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Oct 15, 2026
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Tonight, though, we are delighted to welcome to Powell's Josh Frank.
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And you can clap.
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[audience clapping] You can see the- the- When the hands are poised, you've gotta indulge them.
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Um, Josh Frank is an award-winning California-based journalist and co-editor of the political magazine, CounterPunch.
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He's the author of Atomic Days: The Untold Story of the Most Toxic Place in America, and a co-author of several books, including The Big Heat: Earth on the Brink.
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His work regularly appears in TomDispatch, The Nation, Earth Island Journal, amongst others.
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Problem solved.
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Not so fast, argues Joshua Frank in his new book, "Bad Energy: The AI Hucksters, Rogue Lithium Extractors, and Wind Industrialists Who Are Selling Off Our Future." Frank argues that if we maintain current energy consumption trends while replacing fossil fuel extraction with the mining of precious metals that fuels renewables, we're not going to be much better off.
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To be clear, Joshua is not downplaying the urgency of the energy transition.
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"Not all energy is bad energy," he says flatly in the book.
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But he argues that the pursuit of endless profit and economic growth that produced the climate crisis is replicating itself in the transition away from fossil fuels.
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In "Bad Energy," he compellingly details the human and environmental toll that this transition is taking, from California, where he resides, to the Zambia and South China Sea.
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Joshua Frank joins me momentarily, but first, I've got to ask you for some money.
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Jason MylesHOST
I wanna thank all of the good people that took time out of their day and evenings to be part of and check out our week of shows here at TIR.
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We kicked off the week speaking to journalist Joshua Frank about his latest book, "Bad Energy," a book that discusses the troubling relationship between trying to save the environment with green energy projects in a capitalist society.
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Following the show, we had a very special movie night where I screened the 2011 Tony Kaye film, "Detachment." For those that aren't, aren't aware who Tony Kaye is, he's the man that made the movie "American History X," so there you go.
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We were joined by the host of the Varn Vlog, C. Derek Varn, and following the movie, he added some much-needed insight into the world of public school education.
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Join me in this discussion about how even the idea of green energy remains wrapped up in the pursuit of capital growth and profits, rather than being the simplistic silver bullet for derailing climate collapse.
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Please give a big TAR round of applause for journalist and author, Joshua Frank.
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[applause] Um-
Joshua FrankGUEST
Jason, thanks for that great introduction.
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Um, so I, I haven't been up on my Ralph Leonard movie reviews, so that's a failure on my part
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partBad energy, AI hucksters, lithium extraction, and something else with Joshua somebody
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That's a show I'm doing?
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That's what it looks like.
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Yes, it is.
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It's the guy who wrote a book, Joshua Frank.
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M. ToussaintPANELIST
Joshua Frank.