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Joshua Busby

Joshua Busby is a professor at the LBJ School of Public Affairs at the University of Texas at Austin. From 2021 to 2023, he served as a senior climate advisor at the U.S. Department of Defense. He writes on the intersection of climate, energy, and geopolitics. His book States and Nature: The Effects of Climate Change…

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Joshua Busby is a professor at the LBJ School of Public Affairs at the University of Texas at Austin. From 2021 to 2023, he served as a senior climate advisor at the U.S. Department of Defense. He writes on the intersection of climate, energy, and geopolitics. His book States and Nature: The Effects of Climate Change on Security won the 2026 Grawemeyer Award for Ideas Advancing World Order.

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America’s EV Reckoning

America’s EV Reckoning

Xi Jinping’s zero-Covid policy sealed China off from the outside world for almost three years. Joshua Busby, a Biden-era climate advisor to the Pentagon and professor at the University of Texas at Austin, recently returned from the second of two post-pandemic tours of Chinese electric...