Yes, and like medieval Islamic historians, in the midst of long confident narratives, every couple paragraphs, we should mention in passing: "... but only God knows the truth."
We could do the same in our journal articles and books.
Paul Krugman explains: "The wind and the sun don't need to transit the Strait of Hormuz."
A humane climate transition involves well-planned restraint on fossil fuel use. An inhumane climate transition involves violent restraint on fossil fuel use.
One way or another, the transition is inevitable.
"Of those who voted Labour [in 2024], just 37% would vote Labour again".
Read that again to absorb the full, astonishing weight of what it means.
Starmer, Reeves and co have burnt their house down.
news.sky.com/story/greens...
And current easy access to inexpensive and convenient aviation may disappear as climate-related conflict worsens.
We just missed it also. We were up at the right time for totality but the moon had just set behind buildings and hills a few minutes earlier than calendar setting time.
Two bad things about starting this war: (1) our forces will do evil things to other humans and (2) others will do evil things to us.
The Iran war will be momentarily popular, because few people care about (1) and the exact form of (2) is not yet visible.
After that, it will go badly.
What a great interview. Zack Polanski doesn't complain about the interviewer's hard questions. Instead, he answers them.
Blessings for the life of Colman McCarthy!
When I was in junior high school in the early 1980s, he spoke to our class.
He told us the value of peace, justice, and education, and told us not to have sex. Quite an earful!
This is the "polycrisis."
I don't say this to spread discouragement. Naming the opponent gives us strength for the struggle.
In this morning's newspaper, we have unjust war in Iran, cuts to green energy in Massachusetts, and a broken democratic response.
That's the opponent.
See you out there.
Fascinating research by @samuelfinnerty.bsky.social on how scientist-activists navigate the tensions between their professional and activist roles, based on research with our group @scientistsforxr.earth
For university climate action people ... you are not alone!
The Climate Justice Universities Union (CJUU or "Climate Uni") has a new North America branch, with a kickoff event tomorrow Feb 26 6pm eastern (online only, the in-person option was canceled).
climatejusticeuniversitiesunion.org
Excellent hard-hitting report.
The REVERB initiative reports that travel emissions, including aviation, are "live music’s biggest climate challenge – and its greatest opportunity." Founders and @tufts.edu alums, Lauren Sullivan and Adam Gardner will receive the 2026 Lyon & Bendheim Citizenship Award!
reverb.org/concert-trav...
For a while I especially enjoyed a space opera in the interior of the solar system with realistic travel speeds and diverse humans working through war, peace, and diplomacy rather than superpowerful aliens. Lost interest after some of the plot developments.
Yes, congratulations to the people reporting on this for years before the impact really could be seen.
I imagine Epstein's was not the only network trafficking in some mix of sex, financial fixing, and political influence for powerful elites. What are the next biggest such networks we should know?
Good thread.
Informative about ICE and FEMA schemes especially in Florida.
And, at a deeper level, nice job remiding us how to use social media simply for discerning the empirical truth rather than just marking out ideological loyalties.
Those no good unfaithful lying cheating banks help finance private prisons and war bonds, and they went back on their climate pledges. From @xrboston.bsky.social on Instagram.
www.instagram.com/reel/DU3v8Ot...
In this episode of the low-carbon travel and tourism show, Lifestyles of the NOT Jet Set, we walk across Washington DC to the Lincoln Memorial, on the same week that the Buddhist Walk for Peace is scheduled to arrive after walking from Texas. Episode 23: Pilgrimage. youtu.be/EAZBv1Px61o?...
An extraordinary new column in the Daily Telegraph (no, that's not a typo!) by Ambrose Evans Pritchard.
Yes, it includes two charts by Carbon Brief, sure.
But stay for the concluding few paragraphs about the electoral suicide of climate denial...
www.telegraph.co.uk/business/202...
I don’t know who needs to hear Jesse Jackson leading the kids on Sesame Street in this beautiful call-and-response reminding them that every child is somebody, but here it is
Who decides which properties will be allowed to rebuild? Who will pay for rebuilding and subsequent insurance? Who decides which cities or areas will be defended — by sea walls, dredging projects, canals — and which will be abandoned? If people must relocate, who decides when, and which people? Who pays for relocation? Which communities take in the relocated? Who decides on compensation for the relocated? What are the legal rights of the relocated? Who is legally liable for foreseeable damage to coastal property? What is the value of nonmonetary attachment to a home or place? Is sentiment counted? Who decides on its value? Should these decisions be made by lawmakers and technocrats or popular votes and referenda? Ad hoc or planned in advance? Determined by market forces or by some collective judgment of fairness? If, as seems inevitable, the poor suffer first and worst from the impacts of extreme weather, what role should equity play in decisions about relocation? https://www.vox.com/energy-and-environment/2017/9/8/16272538/what-is-worth-saving
Theres a quiet myth that #climate adaptation is less contentious than mitigation. It isn’t
Who's protected? Who pays? Who decides?
If we can’t transform society to decarbonize justly, why think adaptation will be easier? Both hinge on fairness, equality &democracy
Reminded of key Qs by @volts.wtf
I'm embarrassed to say that clarification is not clear to me. I'm not grasping which part is untrue. I wonder if you are saying the current democratic coalition does always succeed in this multiracial aspiration, or if you are saying Jackson didn't inspire such efforts.
Jackson's 1988 campaign was an inspiration, and later he would speak in my neighborhood of DC, explaining how high DC would rank as a state in terms of population, tax revenue, military service, and contributions to the arts. He inspired the Bernie Sanders wing of the Democratic Party.
Very funny Bill McKibben reply to a critical letter in NYRB:
"I’m grateful to Mark Roller for producing an almost pitch-perfect summary of the anti-renewable talking points that have been in circulation for decades. These would have been wrong in, say, 2016, but in 2026 they are just silly."
From one of the breakup letters read at this event: "Dear climate-destroying banks. I know this has to be hard to hear. But I want you to know -- it's not me. It's you."
@xrglobal.bsky.social @climatedefiance.bsky.social @scientistrebellion.bsky.social
It would be the wrong part of speech, but "unladylike" may have part of what you are seeking.
If you invent the word "masculate," we'll all credit it to you.
XR activists arrested in Harvard Sq while demanding that banks stop funding genocide, ecocide, private prisons and climate crisis! The planet and our neighbors are in danger; we're standing up for them no matter what! @xrglobal.bsky.social@climatedefiance.bsky.social@scientistrebellion.bsky.social
Join us on #ValentinesDay to tell dirty banks to Stop Melting the Wrong ICE & drop fossil fuels!
Jamaica Plain: xrboston.org/action/valen...
Harvard Square: xrboston.org/action/v-day...
Wear your favorite breakup outfit. Bring bank breakup signs or borrow ours. @xrglobal.bsky.social #Activism
Walk for peace: Buddhist monks arrive in Washington after 2,300-mile journey reut.rs/4kqhinI
