🧵Right-leaning newspapers are trying to blame Europe's raging wildfires on everything EXCEPT fossil fuels 1. The Wall Street Journal Frontpage story: "Greece fights wildfires as Europe crisis spreads" WSJ editorial: "How green policies fuel fires in Europe"

"don't make enough money" is a fig leaf All those degree programs--social work, art, etc.--have disproportionately female student bodies. This is designed to make it harder for women to attend college--college education being a key factor in women's autonomy from men & left-leaning voting pattern.

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President Trump is banning students majoring in degrees that don’t make enough money from taking out college loans. Degrees for social work, art, religious studies, teaching aides, and music will be hit the hardest. trib.al/aaAEu6v

Invasive species management has little to do with ecology and everything to do with economics Which is exactly why some introduced species, like 'cattle', are not treated as invasive while anything that harms it is Full ep with @clarefollmann.bsky.social: www.planetcritical.com/clare-follmann/

This morning on @therestpolitics.bsky.social, @rory-stewart.bsky.social said my position on a.i not being an inevitability was "essentially wrong". He compared the development of a.i. to the industrial revolution, and made subsequent comparisons between the technology and energy: wind, steam etc.

One of the world's biggest data centres is being proposed five miles from where I grew up. The planning proposal is total nonsense—but they're not fooling any locals. I attended the public meeting against the centre. Read my report: www.planetcritical.com/plans-for-ma...

One of the biggest data centres in the world is being planned on Scottish soil. The plans for it are so obviously bullshit the developers must think we're fools.

Locals are rallying against the CATO, an allegedly "net zero", "zero waste" data centre which will "harvest rainwater" while providing "data sovereignty".

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Within the context of a globally extractive system, no matter the intention, all developments eventually lead down a path of further exploitation, explains @jeremylent.bsky.social, author of 'Eco-Civilization: Making a World That Works For All' out now. Full Ep: www.planetcritical.com/jeremy-lent/

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For Goodness To Grow

On becoming humus

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It was such a pleasure to talk to @racheldonald.bsky.social for the Planet Critical podcast!

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What is the role of art in any crisis? To understand what is, and to imagine what could be. This is the message of @david-farrier.bsky.social, professor in literature and the author of 'Nature's Genius: Evolutions Lessons for a Changing Planet'. Full Episode: www.planetcritical.com/david-farrier/

What is the role of art in any crisis? To understand what is, and to imagine what could be. This is the message of @david-farrier.bsky.social, professor in literature and the author of 'Nature's Genius: Evolutions Lessons for a Changing Planet'. Full Episode: www.planetcritical.com/david-farrier/

We've been sold a lie that our purchasing power can somehow change the world And we believe it because, as @michaelmaniates.bsky.social explains, we are yearning for solutions, and this gives us a sense of control over our impact on the planet Full Ep: www.planetcritical.com/michael-maniates/

More women at the top isn't going to be good enough. The feminism movement must strive to change the system, not just women's place within it. For the full episode with @natashawalter.bsky.social, whose latest book 'Feminism for a World on Fire' hit shelves last week, go to: lnkd.in/dQu_yXg3

@realwhitneywebb.bsky.social Would love to interview you! Please reach out: rachel [at] planetcritical.com

Most of my corner of the internet is screaming about the collapse of global society. I returned to the land that raised me and learned that whatever we're living through has been going on a very, very long time. www.planetcritical.com/when-the-wor...

When the world "collapses"

What we need to recover ourselves.

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We know what happens to a people when they are removed from their land. But what happens to their culture? It cannot be maintained without practice, without relationship. It cannot exist separate to those who materialise it, without the soil and the flesh. www.planetcritical.com/oil-and-vine...

Oil and Vinegar

On land, loss and peace

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We don't have a choice. Big industry is working with the state to impose overconsumption and dependence on their products. Explains Julia Steinberger - @jksteinberger.bsky.social Professor of ecological economics at Lausanne University. Full episode: www.planetcritical.com/julia-steinberger/

Incredible energy demands from AI data centres are threatening attempts to ween our societies off of fossil fuels. @parismarx.com, journalist and host of Tech Won't Save us, explains the influence of AI on our energy mix. Full episode: planetcritical.com

Why aren't we rioting? Because we don't know who we would be without the conditions of our own oppression. www.planetcritical.com/revolutionar...

Revolutionary Impotence

We can't tear down the conditions of our oppression because we don't know who we would be without them.

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When was the last time society was this unequal? Probably under the Pharaohs, says former Minister of Finance, Andrés Velasco. There's one point we didn't disagree on throughout this episode. Listen now: www.planetcritical.com/andres-velasco/

Do we need growth? Andrés Velasco, Chile's former Minister of Finance, insists we do. He calls for reform—not revolution. But can these institutions be reformed? Listen now: www.planetcritical.com/andres-velasco/

What does it mean to be free when our freedoms are curtailed? What does it mean to be free when our nature is limited? What does it mean to be free at all? Huge thanks to @alybatt.bsky.social whose book Free Gifts inspired this meditation. www.planetcritical.com/freedom-at-t...

Freedom, at the end of the world

We are nearing the limits of resources, international politics, and war. Can we be free if we do not overcome them?

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The Founding Fathers were legal revolutionaries. But over two centuries on, the world needs an update. The Founding Mothers is a movement dedicated to universal dignity, human rights, peace and ending war—through empowering women. Listen now: www.planetcritical.com/laura-george/

Mexicans built a popular movement over a century of organising—and now they're using state power to finance revolutionary politics. This is how Mexico City is building utopia. Listen now: www.planetcritical.com/ashwin-ravikumar/

We're looking at global food shortages in coming weeks due to Trump's illegal war on Iran and their retaliation by derailing traffic through the strait of hormuz. This is about so much more than oil. It's about how we feed the future. Listen now: www.planetcritical.com/feeding-the-...

That feeling in your chest that threatens to crush your bones to dust? That's the fear and horror of billions of us. And it's why you can't make any of this singular moment of global unravelling make sense. www.planetcritical.com/how-to-make-...

How to make this senseless world make sense

It's all too much for any of us to handle alone

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I've read numerous articles characterising Epstein’s world as "paedophilic". But this analysis neglects how patriarchy actively works to undermine women’s empowerment in order to protect capital accumulation. I discuss the connection in this week's newsletter: www.planetcritical.com/thin-shaved-...

Thin, shaved and infantile: What the Epstein Files reveal about the misogyny shaping political power

Characterising Epstein’s world as "paedophilic" misses how patriarchy fears women’s empowerment

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The feminist political project in the heart of the Middle East, Rojava, is a fierce assertion that other worlds are possible. They have defended their right to self-determination—for all our sakes. Journalist Matt Broomfield has spent years there. Listen now: www.planetcritical.com/rojava-the-f...

EXCLUSIVE: At more than 30 installations, U.S. commanders told troops the war on Iran is a Christian war. The Military Religious Freedom Foundation has been “inundated” with more than 110 complaints. One NCO said they were told the U.S. war is to bring about Armageddon and the return of Jesus…

U.S. Troops Were Told Iran War Is for “Armageddon,” Return of Jesus

Advocacy group reports commanders giving similar messages at more than 30 installations in every branch of the military

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Today I saw a Leftist publicly criticise another Leftist for mentioning Iran's reputation in a post expressing solidarity with the Iranian people. We are never going to win ANY ground if it is more fashionable to take aim at each other than murderous regimes. www.planetcritical.com/the-enemy-of...

The Enemy of Your Enemy is Not Your Friend

The history of the Iranian regime shows just how closely political adversaries can work together to advance their own interests. Meanwhile, on the Left, criticising that regime makes you a political t...

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How do we design liveable futures? Architects @jeremytill.bsky.social and Tatiana Schneider on how "sustainable architecture" is not just falling short, but even contributing to the intersecting social, economic and climate crises. Listen now: www.planetcritical.com/designing-li...

@alybatt.bsky.social — I would love to interview you on the relationship between nature, reproductive labour and capitalism, and Free Gifts more broadly! DMs open!