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Dr. Jonathan Foley

@globalecoguy

- Executive Director, Project Drawdown drawdown.org - Climate scientist, working on solutions - Passionate about science, communication, and hope - Minnesota based, Maine born - Personal account / My views

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This is just wrong.

I don’t mind grammar checks and basic writing feedback, but impersonating the writing advice of living and dead people is just gross.

Let’s keep our editors *human* please.

06.03.2026 21:32 👍 17 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0
The Map of the Universe

I'm a sucker for really good interactive science visualizations.

Check out this one that lets you explore a map of the known universe. It's beautiful, engaging, and very well done.

mapoftheuniverse.net

06.03.2026 18:42 👍 19 🔁 4 💬 1 📌 0

Good. Noem is out.

But just how corrupt do you have to be for Trump to fire you for unseemly conduct?

05.03.2026 20:46 👍 45 🔁 2 💬 3 📌 0

IF its training prioritized factual accuracy and helping people rehumanize and connect, it could provide social benefit.

Instead it's trained to provide a facsimile of truthiness as it attempts to addict users to prefer using it over using their own minds and/or collaborating with others.

So, no.

06.03.2026 03:30 👍 16 🔁 5 💬 1 📌 0

Extremely well said. Thank you.

06.03.2026 03:40 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

p.s. Sure, there are some very helpful algorithms out there for better medical imaging, editing photos, checking your code and writing, etc.

I don’t mean that stuff.

I mean things like ChatGPT, Claude, etc? Doesn’t it clearly do more harm than good for the world?

05.03.2026 16:50 👍 32 🔁 1 💬 4 📌 0

I’m curious: Can anyone give me an honest reason why generative AI is, net net, good for society?

I honestly can’t see a reason why it is.

Can someone give me a genuine case of why the benefits outweigh the tremendous harms?

05.03.2026 16:50 👍 47 🔁 6 💬 12 📌 2

Want to take action on climate?

Want to find *your* climate superpowers?

Then check out SHIFT!

05.03.2026 15:42 👍 56 🔁 21 💬 0 📌 0

Good. Noem is out.

But just how corrupt do you have to be for Trump to fire you for unseemly conduct?

05.03.2026 20:46 👍 45 🔁 2 💬 3 📌 0

I mean “is society better off as a whole”, not “this is a nice convenience for me”….

05.03.2026 18:05 👍 5 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Ummm. Yeah, I don’t think a minor convenience outweighs all of the tremendous harm.

05.03.2026 18:03 👍 5 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

p.s. Sure, there are some very helpful algorithms out there for better medical imaging, editing photos, checking your code and writing, etc.

I don’t mean that stuff.

I mean things like ChatGPT, Claude, etc? Doesn’t it clearly do more harm than good for the world?

05.03.2026 16:50 👍 32 🔁 1 💬 4 📌 0

I’m curious: Can anyone give me an honest reason why generative AI is, net net, good for society?

I honestly can’t see a reason why it is.

Can someone give me a genuine case of why the benefits outweigh the tremendous harms?

05.03.2026 16:50 👍 47 🔁 6 💬 12 📌 2

Want to take action on climate?

Want to find *your* climate superpowers?

Then check out SHIFT!

05.03.2026 15:42 👍 56 🔁 21 💬 0 📌 0
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Many of the solutions with the biggest promise for curbing climate change also protect habitats.

These are just some of the solutions that do both:

🌳 Protect Forests
🚶 Improve Transportation
🌱 Improve Nutrient Management

Visit the drawdown.org/explorer to discover more!
#worldwildlifeday

03.03.2026 18:05 👍 17 🔁 6 💬 0 📌 2

I’m very proud of the Drawdown Explorer. In only six months, we have created the world’s go to resource for climate solutions.

And it’s only getting better! Check it out.

04.03.2026 22:10 👍 28 🔁 7 💬 0 📌 0
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Drawdown® Explorer We know what we need to do: stop climate change as quickly as possible. Now, with the Drawdown Explorer, we know how to do it.

6 months since the launch of Drawdown Explorer and the numbers speak for themselves!

📊 500K+ views online
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📋 158 solutions on our master list - and growing

And we're just getting started!

www.drawdown.org/explorer

#climatesolutions

04.03.2026 17:54 👍 23 🔁 9 💬 1 📌 2

Climate solutions and nature solutions are often the same thing.

04.03.2026 17:20 👍 40 🔁 12 💬 2 📌 1

Climate solutions and nature solutions are often the same thing.

04.03.2026 17:20 👍 40 🔁 12 💬 2 📌 1
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02.03.2026 21:30 👍 27 🔁 14 💬 2 📌 1
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a man stands on a roof with solar panels ALT: a man stands on a roof with solar panels

On top of everything else, oil and gas prices are going to spike because of Trump’s war in Iran.

But guess what doesn’t get disrupted by wars?

Renewable energy. Solar. Wind. Geothermal. Storage.

02.03.2026 16:58 👍 332 🔁 68 💬 16 📌 3
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a man stands on a roof with solar panels ALT: a man stands on a roof with solar panels

On top of everything else, oil and gas prices are going to spike because of Trump’s war in Iran.

But guess what doesn’t get disrupted by wars?

Renewable energy. Solar. Wind. Geothermal. Storage.

02.03.2026 16:58 👍 332 🔁 68 💬 16 📌 3
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The US Had a Big Battery Boom Last Year Despite Donald Trump’s unrelenting attacks on renewable energy, there’s a quiet revolution happening on US grids.

Big Battery Energy? Yes, America boomed in 2025. 🔋 Batteries are one of the 6 technologies outlined by Sr. Scientist Amanda Smith, PhD. that will make up the cleaner electric grid of the future.
Read more in Wired: https://bit.ly/4tTTk8Z
Read more from Amanda Smith, PhD.: https://bit.ly/4tOZI10

01.03.2026 19:52 👍 21 🔁 8 💬 1 📌 0

I get the whole “Quit ChatGPT”, but honestly they are all bullshit generating, automated plagiarism machines.

They do more harm than good to society, without a doubt, and we would be better off walking away and focusing on enhancing, not replacing, human skills.

01.03.2026 16:45 👍 80 🔁 10 💬 5 📌 1

Nobody should using generative AI for anything that they really care about.

01.03.2026 16:37 👍 119 🔁 22 💬 6 📌 2

I get the whole “Quit ChatGPT”, but honestly they are all bullshit generating, automated plagiarism machines.

They do more harm than good to society, without a doubt, and we would be better off walking away and focusing on enhancing, not replacing, human skills.

01.03.2026 16:45 👍 80 🔁 10 💬 5 📌 1

Nobody should using generative AI for anything that they really care about.

01.03.2026 16:37 👍 119 🔁 22 💬 6 📌 2

When you lay off 40% of your workforce on a single day, without some kind of fiscal emergency, it doesn’t make you a business genius.

It makes you a moron who didn’t see — for months and years — that nearly half of your entire organization wasn’t needed.

27.02.2026 21:25 👍 64 🔁 11 💬 4 📌 1

The company’s “AI” famously can’t do anything right even 50% of the time, and they are so transparently unethical that even the Facebook folks are like “we probably shouldn’t use tech that way,” so sure, by all means, put them in charge of the nuclear codes or whatever.

28.02.2026 04:05 👍 48 🔁 14 💬 2 📌 1

Or, you’re the moron who will soon realize that AI can’t actually do what 40% of your team did.

28.02.2026 01:56 👍 30 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0