A corporate death penalty is a legal process that forces a corporation to dissolve or cease to exist.
Bring back the corporate death penalty
We have a mechanism to punish corporations that harm us. We should use it
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Dr. Kenneth A. Gould
@enviroprof.bsky.social
Environmental sociologist. Climate change. Environmental justice. Sustainable development. Treadmill of Production. Green gentrification.
"England’s ancient oak trees are dying in the summer’s extreme heat and dry weather, according to the Woodland Trust, with trees and ecosystems unable to adapt fast enough to the changing climate. Ancient and veteran trees are being disproportionately affected." 😢
England’s ancient oak trees dying in extreme hot and dry weather
Woodland Trust says trees struggling in drought stress, with older ‘survivors’ disproportionately affected
theguardian.com
"I synthesized 485 studies and more than 5 million projections to produce a quantitative global assessment of #climate change extinctions. With increased certainty, this meta-analysis suggests that extinctions will accelerate rapidly if global temperatures exceed 1.5°C. "
Climate change extinctions
Climate change is expected to cause irreversible changes to biodiversity, but predicting those risks remains uncertain. I synthesized 485 studies and more than 5 million projections to produce a quant...
science.org
Every so often it is worth reiterating that there is zero possibility of solving the climate crisis, let alone the larger ecological crisis, within the current structure of the global political economy.
The Trump regime has withdrawn federal funding for the Arctic Report Card, an annual report that compiles data from hundreds of scientists and specialists, highlighting the region’s warming, dwindling sea ice, and other environmental transformations.
Trump Administration Kills Annual Arctic Report Card (Gift Article)
The top of the world is warming faster than any other region. For 20 years, the Arctic Report Card chronicled the extraordinary transformation.
nytimes.com
A simple point that surprisingly few people understand: "The longer we wait to reach net zero, the higher the eventual peak temperature will be, and the worse the associated damage. Warming is now nearly 1.4C above pre-industrial levels. Imagine summers when it gets closer to 2C."
How to stop global warming
The answer is obvious to all except the real climate change zealots: the anti-net zero movement
giftarticle.ft.com
"'Tipping points' may actually be fracture points - when key institutions & systems break from intense, cumulative stress. We still do not fully understand how sensitive the Earth system is to human impacts. We are well beyond incremental, 'policy relevant' pathways. Think wartime mobilisation."
James Dyke@jamesgdyke.info · 2w agoMy latest for Technosphere Earth. www.technosphere.earth/climate-chan...
I'm all for "climate adaptation," but honestly I don't know how we can adapt to this level of climate disruption of agriculture. Farmers can't "adapt" to chronic drought and heatwaves. Crops don't "adapt" -- they wither. I don't think we fully understand where we're headed.
Britain could face food shortages as drought continues, farmers warn
Farmers battle to salvage what they can of their crops as heatwave set to continue
theguardian.com
The science was right. In 1988, Dr Syukuro Manabe predicted the Mediterranean region, North Africa and Southern California would all dry out in summers due to rising levels of greenhouse gases. In 2021 he won the Nobel Prize in Physics with two others for reliably predicting global heating.
What is climate gentrification? Why house prices are rising outside of Europe's city centres New ICTA-UAB research led by amaliacaar.bsky.social www.euronews.com/2026/07/23/w...
Hot property: How climate gentrification is driving up house prices
Extreme heat is not only making cities less liveable; it’s also reshaping who can afford to live where.
euronews.com
We are witnessing a tipping point. Boreal forests that stored carbon for 1000s of years are now CARBON EMITTERS. Heatwaves make wildfires. Wildfires make more heat. More heat makes more fires. This feedback loop is what scientists warned you about.
Here's the latest from @hollyjeanbuck.bsky.social: Rebranding geoengineering as "climate stabilization" is a bad idea because it suggests the climate can be controlled and held steady, obscuring ongoing ecological change, political tradeoffs, and questions of whose "stability" is prioritized.
Selling Stability: The Problem with Pitching “Climate Stabilization” as a New Category of Climate Response — African Tech Futures Lab
africantechfutures.org
The future of climate change keeps moving into the present. The future of climate action… somehow stays in the distant future. A fascinating new study analysing 240,000+ US news stories reveals how news coverage may be normalising delay. www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Temporal horizons in US climate change news - Nature Climate Change
Whether news presents climate change as something happening now or in the future impacts public risk perceptions and climate action. A recent study shows that, in US news, the timing of anticipated cl...
nature.com
Yet again, the future has already arrived. "Waterways across Europe have been affected by prolonged heatwaves and drought this year and the average peak temperature across Western Europe on Monday was forecast to be 26.2 degrees Celsius, 2.7 degrees above the normal high for July 20..."
Danube water levels reach lowest in 30 years, hampering farming and shipping
Water levels of the Danube river in Romania fell to their lowest since 1996 over the weekend, prompting irrigation restrictions for farmers and partially disrupting shipping and tourism along its ba...
reuters.com
"If you were on a big boat, like the Titanic, & someone comes up to you & says the boat's going down, you bloody well get on those lifeboats & start acting & do stuff" "We're not doing that. The ship is starting to sink in a really massive way, & we're not seeing it as what it is. It is so serious"
Great Barrier Reef at risk of 'collapse', scientists warn
Australia's Great Barrier Reef is at a very high risk of extreme and widespread bleaching and "ecosystem collapse" linked to this year's El Nino weather phenomenon, top scientists warn.
rnz.co.nz
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Extreme Temperatures Around the World@extremetemps.bsky.social · last mo.‼️EXTRAORDINARY EVENT 50 DEGREES AT DAY 35 AT NIGHT IN CENTRAL ASIA MOST EXTREME EVENT EVER IN WORLD CLIMATIC HISTORY BY FAR DOZENS OF WORLD RECORDS SMASHED Nothing ever happened anywhere in the past 3 centuries remotely compare to what we witnessed today. MANY updates coming
EXTRAORDINARY July Records smashed allover the Hemisphere in Namibia,Zambia,Botwana,Zimbabwe,Madagascar,Malawi up to TANZANIA where the National record of July highest temperature was pulverized: 33.8C Tabora 1200m asl It will get worse. Most record breaking event in Southern Africa history
"Only Cyprus and Malta had normal temperatures" in June (post below) Now, in July: "Malta is living the most extreme heat wave in history" bsky.app/profile/extr...
European Commission@ec.europa.eu · last mo.Western Europe had its hottest June on record.🔥 Intense heatwaves broke temperature records, with peaks up to 9°C above average in France and Germany, according to Copernicus data. Only Cyprus and Malta had normal temperatures. Climate change is here and we are feeling its effects
We are given only a limited number of truly perfect summer days in our time on Earth. One of the more insidious cruelties of fossil fuel greed is how it slowly strips those days from us, more and more throughout our lifetimes, perhaps without us even realizing what we have lost.
Another stolen summer day
What are we still waiting to learn?
heated.world
Train crew in Canada 'encased' by intense flames amid wildfires - video #Climate
Train crew in Canada 'encased' by intense flames amid wildfires - video
More than 100 wildfires are currently burning in Canada, with winds carrying the smoke southeast
theguardian.com
Once upon a time, there were glaciers in Montana. There was even a place called Glacier National Park.
Patti@montanahuntress.bsky.social · last mo.Montana
There are some crimes that happen all at once, with smoke and sirens. Then there are the quiet ones. The kind committed with a pen. The Trump administration’s decision to open endangered species’ habitats to development won’t make the evening news the way a hurricane or wildfire does.
‘Death sentence’: Trump administration to open habitats of endangered species to logging and mining
Habitat destruction strongest driver of species loss, with legislation keeping 99% of listed species from going extinct
theguardian.com
We know how to mourn other humans – but what about ecological grief?
We know how to mourn other humans – but what about ecological grief?
In Iceland, people commemorated its first glacier formally declared lost to climate change. Western culture needs more of these rituals
theguardian.com
Trump's latest abuse of the pardon power? Rewarding people convicted of intentionally polluting and violating clean air laws.
Trump pardons 11 people, including several for Clean Air Act violations | CNN Politics
President Donald Trump pardoned 11 people on Friday, a White House official told CNN, including several individuals who violated the Clean Air Act aimed at cutting down on emissions and improving air ...
cnn.com
Comment period for Vought’s OMB rule that puts unaccountable political commissars directly in charge of American science funding closes in 5 days. Comment here: www.regulations.gov/commenton/OM...
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Need some help writing your comment to the OMB rule that will impact all federal contracts and grants across the govt? Here is a guide from @defendpublichealth.bsky.social and be sure to submit the comment by July 13, 2026
Critical action needed: Stop OMB's political review of federal grants | Defend Public Health
A proposed rule from the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) seeks to take expert review of federal grants out of the hands of experts and put it into the hands of political appointees. This rule co...
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