The scheme is pretty simple: take the oil and gas, spin off a shell company which owns the trash and depleted wells, then let the shells go bankrupt. And if you think New Mexico is bad ...

4/5 of the fastest growing cities in the U.S. are sprawling into the old Barnett Shale, where tens of millions of tons of oilfield waste was spread on farms and buried and pits. There are no maps of where this stuff is.

Pakistan is on track to get nearly all its electricity from renewables by 2040. The reason: practicality, not morals. Imported fuel swallows up cash and keeps the power system in debt. Texas could do this too, except ... futureheist.org/re/56a72d8f

As the ocean rises, New York is one of the most exposed cities in the world, with 1 million-plus living in or near floodplains. Some of its poorest neighborhoods are both prone to flood — and full of people who can't afford to leave. Now imagine how bad things are in Houston.

Fish farms produce staggering amounts of waste — but seaweed can help. One seaweed varietal wiped fish-farm ammonia to below detectable levels; another pulled out CO2 and added oxygen. The result for a hungry world: more protein, more farmer income, less toxic load.

An area almost as large as Alaska burned worldwide just four months — a stark example of how wildfires are now burning at twice the normal pace worldwide. Now a powerful El Niño — which makes conditions even hotter and drier — is priming ever more of the planet to burn. futureheist.org/re/d08d86e2