“So mitigation deterrence is not only about delay in a narrow sense. It is about the persistence of a particular imagination—one in which the future is always available to compensate for the present.” The Palimpsest of Delay - @daniadmiss.bsky.social open.substack.com/pub/daniadmi...

The Palimpsest of Delay: Why We Don’t Reduce

We tend to tell ourselves a reassuring story about climate change.

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Climate change is increasingly being framed not as something to prevent, but as something to manage. This essay explores the politics of that shift. daniadmiss.substack.com/p/carbon-aft...

Your phone isn't obsolete by accident. Replacement has become part of the system. A short essay on carbon lock-in, persistence, and why so many unsustainable infrastructures prove remarkably difficult to leave behind. daniadmiss.substack.com/p/carbon-aft...

We all need the reminder that many of the changes needed to respond to the climate crisis aren’t a matter of giving something up, but getting something new: a better commute, a more comfortable home or a healthier life. That’s a fight anyone can sign up for. www.nationalobserver.com/2024/12/02/o...

You can’t keep a good climate solution down

The green future can be abundant, not diminished — and some of the necessary changes are already happening without much of a fight.

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The Solent in Southern England is now heavily contaminated with 'forever chemicals' from sewage "This is one thing I don’t necessarily pin on the water companies because they don’t have the capacity to treat for them. That’s why they should be banned at source.” www.theguardian.com/environment/...

High levels of toxic ‘forever chemicals’ found off coast of southern England

Study of Channel finds levels of toxic Pfas in Solent at 13 times safe limits in some places, with much coming from treated sewage

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A heat pump is supposed to feel local. But contemporary climate transition increasingly depends upon infrastructures of extraction, logistics, computation, cooling and energy demand that stretch far beyond the point of use. New Carbon Afterlives essay daniadmiss.substack.com/p/carbon-aft...

Carbon Afterlives (II): What Heat Pumps Have to Do With Data Centres in India

Last week, I started with a simple question, where does carbon go?

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The Goldman Environmental Prize, often called the "Green Nobel," honors grassroots activists, it recognizes individuals for significant, sustained environmental protection efforts. The 2026 winners made history as all six awardees are women, announced by the Goldman Environmental Foundation.

What happens to carbon after extraction, combustion and “offsetting”? My new essay traces carbon through atmosphere, oceans, soil, finance, empire, & memory — asking what it means to live with the afterlife of fossil fuel modernity. daniadmiss.substack.com/p/carbon-aft...

Carbon Afterlives (I): Where Does Carbon Go?

This is the first post in a short series I’ll be writing over the next eight weeks.

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Our labour of love & rage is now available on open access! We draw on our experiences in higher ed and activist spaces to offer pedagogical tools for resisting our ecocidal status quo & building more multispecies-just futures ☺️✊🏼🫶🏼🌍👇🏼 www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Great example of continued bias in the energy forecaster/utility world. The "experts" have continually forecast significant growth for nuclear energy, which has remained flat. And they have continually expected renewable energy to stop growing, when the reality has been accelerated adoption

Tim Donaghy@timdonaghy.bsky.social · 4mo ago

The figure in this paper is fascinating. It's the opposite of the famous image of how renewables growth was always under-estimated in energy projections.

Rural America Needs to Band Together Against Corporate Greed - @inequality.org inequality.org/article/rura...

Rural America Needs to Band Together Against Corporate Greed

New schemes for fully robotic farming could push the last remaining farmers — and their communities — to fold.

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Airborne colored microplastics absorb significantly more sunlight than previously estimated, trapping heat in the atmosphere and contributing to global warming alongside traditional pollutants like soot. doi.org/hb2hfx

Colored microplastics could be making global warming worse

There's more bad news about microplastics. We already know they pose a risk to health and can pollute ecosystems, but now researchers have discovered that tiny plastic particles drifting in Earth's atmosphere could be a significant contributor to global warming.

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Delay isn’t empty time. It’s structured, produced and political. In climate governance, it accumulates - layered like a palimpsest - reshaping what action even means. New essay on how we don’t act (and why). open.substack.com/pub/daniadmi...

The Palimpsest of Delay: Why We Don’t Reduce

We tend to tell ourselves a reassuring story about climate change.

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Why do climate solutions often feel both convincing and insufficient at the same time? daniadmiss.substack.com/p/why-climat... #climatechange #climategovernance

Why climate solutions keep bending back into the problem

Why do climate solutions so often feel both convincing and insufficient at the same time?

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it's been 3 months since @aboxiwu.bsky.social and I sowed some seeds in our tiny tech futures garden thanks to @daniadmiss.bsky.social, Arts Catalyst, flematu sessay and all the greats we continue to learn from and dream with 🌱 💚

jonathan w. y. gray@jwyg.bsky.social · last yr.

exploring tiny tech futures with @aytc0.bsky.social @aboxiwu.bsky.social @daniadmiss.bsky.social @danbarnard.bsky.social @timcowlishaw.co.uk & more ✨🌱🫧 jonathangray.org/2025/03/31/t...

The UK government has confirmed it will ban Palestine Action under anti-terrorism laws, making it a criminal offence to belong to or support the direct action group.

A golden age of clean energy? My arse Colossally expensive to build, will do nothing to tackle the #climate emergency, massively exposed to sea-level rise, super-expensive electricity, and a toxic legacy that lasts thousands of years Yet another wrong move by Starmer www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/c3...

Sizewell C nuclear plant gets go-ahead with £14.2bn of government funding

The government says the plant, which will take at least a decade to build, will deliver a

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BTW, the word for this is genocide, folks. How does anyone still support this? Why? www.axios.com/2025/05/05/i...

Israel plans to occupy and flatten all of Gaza if no deal by Trump's trip

Trump has effectively given Netanyahu a green light to do as he sees fit, Israeli officials say.

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Starvation. They are facing starvation. Malnutrition and hunger are soft euphemisms that people in Gaza are starving to death and the world is letting them

Bruno J. Navarro@brunojnavarro.bsky.social · last yr.

Malnutrition and hunger are becoming increasingly prevalent in the Gaza Strip as Israel’s total blockade enters its third month.

Thanks for sharing Flematu's incredible visualisations of the Tiny Tech Futures workshop co-led by @aytc0.bsky.social and myself exploring how artists, educators and engineers can challenge the scale, centralisation and extractivism of contemporary digital technologies through their practices 🍃

jonathan w. y. gray@jwyg.bsky.social · last yr.

exploring tiny tech futures with @aytc0.bsky.social @aboxiwu.bsky.social @daniadmiss.bsky.social @danbarnard.bsky.social @timcowlishaw.co.uk & more ✨🌱🫧 jonathangray.org/2025/03/31/t...

This work was made possible by the incredible art & climate justice learning lab Sunlight Liberation Network (founded by @daniadmiss.bsky.social & Arts Catalyst 🌞

exploring tiny tech futures with @aytc0.bsky.social @aboxiwu.bsky.social @daniadmiss.bsky.social @danbarnard.bsky.social @timcowlishaw.co.uk & more ✨🌱🫧 jonathangray.org/2025/03/31/t...