Heatwave deaths of older people should not be tolerated It feels like a form of 'necropolitics' Adaptation of social behaviours is essential. Maybe more Europeans, especially those older,should abandon the cherished but deadly summer seaside for the cooler mountains www.nature.com/articles/s41...

1/ "This is the pivot point in the energy transition folks. Fossil chaos drives people to electrotech, as this is the first oil shock with a superior alternative. " says @ember-energy.org @kingsmillbond.bsky.social We argued similarly last week at Wesleyan (slides here) tinyurl.com/PolycrisisWe...

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Update: The Trump administration has released an outline of options for dealing with the Colorado River’s deepening water shortages, and they could dramatically cut the amount of water available for Southern California. www.latimes.com/environment/... @latimes.com

Trump administration proposes Colorado River options that could hit California hard

With rules governing the hard-hit Colorado River set to expire, the Trump administration presented options for dealing with the ongoing water shortages. Some experts said they would require greater sa...

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I've been well aware of this reality for years but I was still shocked to learn some time ago that 40 PERCENT of freight shipping is fossil fuels

Technology Connections@techconnectify.bsky.social · 7mo ago

I'll essentially just walk through the whole "you only buy the solar panels and batteries once and then they harvest energy from the sun for free" thing, contrasting it with "can't stop slurping oil outta the ground or all the machines stop" and stare intensely at camera while I ask which is better

keep thinking of a vocally anti-woke reporter who insisted that the term "environmental racism" was nonsense

Phil Lewis@phillewis.bsky.social · 7mo ago

After a white county in South Carolina rejected a data center, developers have sets their sights on a Black community for a proposed data center complex the size of 1,200 football fields

I'm going to repost our oped, bc the climate discourse is even worse than when we wrote it a year ago. 1/ Biden's IRA didn't fail bc of of Sunrise, the left, etc, it failed bc it had no impact on working class lives. 2/ Green economic populism is how we win. www.nytimes.com/2025/01/07/o...

Opinion | Biden Left Us With a ‘Prius Economy.’ It’s Time for Something Different.

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NEW from me: The US is losing blue-collar jobs for the first time since early COVID or the Great Recession—the country has lost 65k jobs over the last year as manufacturing, transport, & mining employment decline, while growth in construction has nearly zeroed out www.apricitas.io/p/america-is...

America is Losing Blue Collar Jobs

For the First Time Since Early COVID & the Great Recession, the US is Losing Jobs in Manufacturing, Construction, & Other Blue Collar Industries

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Eyes wide open, folks. They're revealing the supervillain plot.

The LA fires are probably your most vivid illustration of our new age of wildfire and all the devastation it promises. But were they even wildfires? The ignition wasn’t wild, the fuel wasn’t wild, the landscape wasn’t wildland and wildland firefighting couldn’t help. www.nytimes.com/2026/01/05/o...

Opinion | Which City Burns Next?

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Looking back to @wwattribution.bsky.social studies in 2025 showed again, in stark terms, how unfairly the consequences of human-induced climate change are distributed. The world does not have to be like this, we have a lot of agency to make it better. www.worldweatherattribution.org/unequal-evid...

“MAHA works in large part because it promises sweeping change and improved health even when in practice what it delivers is benefit cuts, deregulation, and increased spread of contagious disease.” podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/d...

Teaser - Health Fascism and the Anti-State State (12/22/25)

Podcast Episode · Death Panel · 12/22/2025 · 7m

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"The 2008 Great Recession shifted Americans toward identifying as a lower class" pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/41417466/

Climate data and historical accounts suggest that crop failures in the 1340s prompted Italian officials to import grain from eastern Europe, and this may have carried in the plague bacterium

Volcano eruption may have led to the Black Death coming to Europe

Climate data and historical accounts suggest that crop failures in the 1340s prompted Italian officials to import grain from eastern Europe, and this may have carried in the plague bacterium

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In 2025, the murder rate was the lowest ever recorded, with records going back all the way to 1960. It also set a record for the largest single year decline in murder rate since 1960. It was the third straight year in which a new record for largest decline was set. open.substack.com/pub/jasher/p...

2025 Year in Review: A Remarkable Drop In Crime

Crime almost certainly fell an enormous amount in 2025.

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In YouGov polling this week, less than half of Republicans said they strongly approved of Trump. www.ms.now/opinion/poll...

After Sri Lanka struggled through one of the worst storms in its history, tea plantation workers are taking temporary refuge in government schools and temples as entire villages were buried in mud in the central highlands.

Sri Lanka tea workers struggle in poverty. Flooding cost many their lives

After Sri Lanka struggled through one of the worst storms in its history, tea plantation workers are taking temporary refuge in government schools and temples as entire villages were buried in mud in the central highlands.

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The great Jim Hansen predicts that global average temperatures will jump 0.23 degrees Celsius in a single year, between 2026 (which he projects will see warming of 1.47 degrees C) to 2027 (which he projects will see 1.70 degrees C). open.substack.com/pub/jimehans...

Global Temperature in 2025, 2026, 2027

James Hansen, Pushker Kharecha, Dylan Morgan and Jasen Vest

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Scoop: FDA vaccine chief’s memo cited 10 pediatric Covid-19 vaccine deaths—but the agency’s own analysis found 0–7.

Dr. Vinay Prasad circulated a memo before FDA scientists finished their work. His conclusions overshot what the agency’s own analysts ultimately found.

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“Little-known secret: Almost every earthworm in most of the U.S. came from somewhere else. Native earthworms all but disappeared more than 10,000 years ago, when glaciers from a Pleistocene ice age wiped them out.” ecosystemsontheedge.org/earthworm-in...

Earthworm Invaders

Little-known secret: Almost every earthworm in most of the U.S. came from somewhere else. Native earthworms all but disappeared more than 10,000 years ago, when glaciers from a Pleistocene ice age …

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‘A total of 34% of Republican survey respondents between the ages of 30 and 49 answered “I am such person” when asked for their views on individuals who openly express racist views. Only 3% of survey respondents over the age of 65 answered “I am such person.”’ www.newsweek.com/millennial-r...

Millennial Republicans more likely to identify as racist than Boomers: poll

A national survey found that Millennial Republicans are more likely to call themselves racist than Baby Boomer Republicans.

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“More than 40% of the wealth generated since the start of the century has gone to the wealthiest 1%, while the bottom half of the world’s population received just 1%.” www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/g...

How the G20 Can Lead the Fight Against Global Inequality

Jayati Ghosh argues that addressing the increasing concentration of wealth requires understanding exactly what's driving it.

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“The year featured a record number of violent incidents over water around the world, far surpassing the 355 in 2023, continuing a steeply rising trend. The violence more than quadrupled in the last five years.” www.latimes.com/environment/...

Violent conflict over water hit a record last year

Violence over water is on the rise worldwide. Researchers counted a record 420 incidents of conflict in 2024, many in Ukraine and the Middle East.

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“I will limit my discussion to their actual plan to handle a new virus. It was very different from the GBD and it’s foundational principle of focused protection. Dr. Bhattacharya’s new plan is much simpler: vulnerable people should stop being vulnerable.” sciencebasedmedicine.org/bhattacharya...

Goodbye to Focused Protection. Jay Bhattacharya’s Latest 1-Page Pandemic “Plan” is for Vulnerable People to Stop Being Vulnerable.

Jay Bhattacharya's new "plan" is really an admission that if there's a new pandemic, he’s not competent enough to do any of the incredible things he “would have” done regarding COVID. He's not

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