Metaviews: Future of Authority

Metaviews: Future of Authority

221: Corn Storms and Climate Denial

How industrial corn became the authoritarian crop of choice, feeding both fossil fuel expansion and climate collapse.

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Jesse Hirsh
Jul 25, 2025
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The storms are made of corn. This isn’t metaphor or myth. It’s meteorology.

Across the American Midwest and deep into Southern Canada, massive monocultures of corn release so much water vapor into the atmosphere that they are quite literally changing the weather. The process is known as evapotranspiration, and at peak growing season, an acre of corn can …

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