Julian Lim

Producer, Cinematographer, Editor

One year ago, the US Senate approved a historic investment in climate action. Turns out money was the easy part.

Especially in Texas – which might come a surprise given its crucial role in the oil industry. But Texas also tells the future about where we're headed.  The world is not moving fast enough – if the the US doesn't dramatically speed up, it will miss its climate goals. 

And even if the government makes building energy transition projects easier in the rest of the country, Texas is living in that future already – and the backlash has just begun. Every single energy transition project will be in somebody’s backyard or in their farmland, and there's a massive fight playing out not. 

Our newest episode of the Agenda dives deep on Texas, where our clean energy transition future is already playing out. Watch the full video on our YouTube channel, and you can click here to subscribe so you don't miss the next one.

Clean energy is booming. We’re about to waste almost all of it.

It’s ironic that in the era of drones and AI, the war between Russia and Ukraine has in many ways become a contest to see which country can get their hands on the most 155-millimeter howitzer shells. As trench warfare has taken over the conflict’s front lines, Kyiv and Moscow’s forces have come to lean heavily on old-school artillery — launching round after round of unguided explosives at the enemy. But both sides are now running low ahead of impending offensives, global stockpiles are dwindling, and ramping up will take years.

Reporter-producer Tanya Lukyanova leads the third episode The Agenda, taking a hard look at the state of the U.S. defense industry to answer why supplying Ukraine with the ammunition it needs has become such a daunting task. “In the US, we’ve done everything we can to expand capacity, and still we’re producing around 14,000 shells a month, and the Ukrainians are firing 6-to-7,000 a day,” Rep. Jeff Jackson, D-N.C, told Semafor. The Pentagon is currently on track to increase its artillery production sixfold, but only by 2025.

“We have multiple threats around the globe here for which we need to prepare,” Rep. Seth Moulton, D-Mass., adds, nodding at a potential standoff in the Pacific. “And I am concerned that when you take that in totality, we're not moving quickly enough.”

Ukraine is running out of ammo. The West doesn’t have enough.

And So I Stayed

In 2020, five major storms slammed the Louisiana coast, the most ever in a single season. For many living here, this unprecedented barrage was a final warning. Now Biloxi-Chitimacha-Choctaw tribal members have decided to leave.

Pointe-Aux-Chenes, and its neighbor, the Isle de Jean Charles, are about 90 minutes southwest of New Orleans. At some points, they are just a foot above sea level.

What happens here is an important foreshadowing of what will happen to coastal communities globally, researchers warn. Sea levels are rising by an average of about 3.5 millimeters (0.14 inch) per year. And the problem is getting worse.

The Last Holdouts

The state of California's progressive stance on issues from climate change to immigration has long epitomised liberal opposition to President Donald Trump.

He in turn portrays those values as a betrayal of the US heartland and his supporters in the Republican Party

So what does this bitter ideological battle reveal about the choices facing Americans in the coming presidential election?

Julian Lim

Producer, Cinematographer, Editor

Clean energy is booming. We’re about to waste almost all of it.

Ukraine is running out of ammo. The West doesn’t have enough.

And So I Stayed

The Last Holdouts

People and Power | Trump v California