In my personal headcanon, Le Guin and Franklin are the *Ursulae*, and they are right at this moment resting in the shade of a great big tree, drinking tea (Franklin) and whiskey (UKLG) and talking about the end of the patriarchy—which for them has already happened.
".. even if technology helps us reach the limits of human development in unimaginable ways, does that mean we should let it—just because we can use technology to build an unimaginable world, does that mean we should?" H/T @aworkinglibrary.com reprisingtherealworld.hcommons.org/ursula-frank...
Ursula Franklin Biography – Reprising the Real World of Technology
reprisingtherealworld.hcommons.org
To reduce reading to the practice of empathy is to divorce it of its real power and pleasure. https://aworkinglibrary.com/writing/reading-matters-deeply
Reading matters deeply
You must read where you are, not in some hypothetical sanitized reading room, but in the dirt.
aworkinglibrary.com
❤️🔥❤️🔥❤️🔥 “[W]e do not know how to mourn disappearing species, damaged rivers, altered coastlines, democratic institutions, or the healthy futures we expected to inherit. We should admit non-human species and landscapes are worthy of mourning and normalize addressing 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
New polling from The 2035 Initiative, a climate policy research center at UC Santa Barbara, suggests that the Democratic Party’s “climate hushing” is not a winning strategy and that US voters would welcome candidates talking about climate action. By Kate Yoder for @grist.org:
'Climate hushing' has swept the Democratic Party. New polling suggests it's a mistake.
Climate change might not be voters' top priority, but new polling suggests that emphasizing it may actually boost support for candidates.
buff.ly
This is what the public power movement has been saying all along and will keep working towards.
Don Moynihan@donmoyn.bsky.social · 6d agoVery excited for this new essay at "Can We Still Govern?": The key claim is that planning for a progressive future cannot just focus on new policies. It also has to include - to start with - political power. What does a power-shifting perspective look like? 🧵 donmoynihan.substack.com/p/rebuilding...
I have learned so much from @kendrawrites.com over the years so I really appreciated her clarifying the right language to use, why reporters should check emergency room data, and the importance of mentioning climate change: emergencymode.news/no-longer-ni...
No Longer Niche: How Journalists Cover Wildfires and Smoke · Emergency Mode for News
As wildfires and smoke become more frequent and widespread due to climate change, news coverage needs to be more creative, comprehensive, and anticipatory.
emergencymode.news
“global temperatures are on a trajectory which may even see 2027 nearing 2C warming above pre-industrial levels for the first time.” Not in 2100, not in 2050, but in freaking 2027. #climatecrisis www.abc.net.au/news/2026-07...
Record-smashing El Niño points to spring of drought and fires
Despite El Niño being months away from peaking, it could potentially trigger Australia's hottest spring on record.
abc.net.au
There have been nearly 23,000 book bans in public schools since 2021. The Books Save Lives Act protects the freedom to read and defends the right of every person to see themselves in the pages of a book. #library #read #books @everylibrary.bsky.social www.saveschoollibrarians.org/booksavelives
PETITION: Support the Books Save Lives Act
There Have Been Nearly 23,000 Book Bans in Public Schools Since 2021.
saveschoollibrarians.org
Isolationism isn't strength. It's a tourniquet on the country's own damn arm, and it's turning gangrenous. Some days it feels like no project on this bench can move until the Republican party is swept out of every office in the land — 2028 can't come fast enough. 8/11
Anyone who wants to bug me about my choices as an egg consumer (including myself) should shut the hell up until they've said 50 things about giving plutocrats tax breaks on using their private jets to pick up groceries.
And to make us think that addressing climate change requires us to make a welter of frustrating changes to our lives instead of fixing it at the top It’s like means testing everything instead of just helping people
The US president threatening war crimes is, on its own, a radical change in US foreign policy and weakens the already-not-that-strong international law and human rights regime. @emilyhorne.bsky.social is right, the White House has no plan. Their whole idea was “we act strong and get what we want.”
Greg Sargent@gregsargent.bsky.social · last wk.Media needs to stop treating Trump's threats of war crimes against Iran as bluster. The mere fact that he's *threatening* to inflict such sociopathic horrors on tens of millions of people is itself a scandal. On the pod, @emilyhorne.bsky.social and I on this idea: newrepublic.com/article/2136...
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The Wildfire Fighter Who Just Might Flip Montana
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"In addition to extensively documenting the role of successive US governments in promoting climate disruption, it demonstrated that all-out support for the petrochemical industry is not limited to one political party. " #ClimateChange climateandcapitalism.com/2026/06/12/j...
How Obama, Trump, and Biden blocked court action on climate | Climate & Capitalism
The bipartisan defense of policies that threaten today’s children and generations to come…
climateandcapitalism.com
BP execs were deeply involved in shaping a highly influential climate science paper. The authors not only discussed ideas with the oil company but, in a departure from academic norms, passed drafts back and forth and welcomed extensive feedback. with @drilledmedia.bsky.social
How BP Execs Influenced a Climate Study That Shaped a Generation of Global Policy
BP sponsored an elite Princeton research center to address the climate problem without getting off fossil fuels. Its key work, a paper known as “Wedges,” guided climate discourse for a generation.
propublica.org
Between 2026-40, the average wholesale price of liquefied natural gas could be 80% higher than during the past decade, thanks to Trump’s acceleration of exports and the construction of AI data centers, according to a new report.
Report Shows How Trump's Fossil Fuel Agenda Is 'Making Everyone's Lives More Expensive'
Between 2026 and 2040, the average wholesale price of liquid natural gas could be 80% higher than during the past decade, thanks to Trump's acceleration of exports and the construction of gas-powered AI data centers.
commondreams.org
The White House wants warning signs outside the #Smithsonian because it claims Americans are being misled about their own history. So I put one where it belongs. #PoliticalCartoon #EditorialCartoon #TheWhiteHouse #Satire #DrawnAndQuartered
The 2026 Booker Prize longlist, released today. #books #BookSky thebookerprizes.com/the-booker-l...
Everything you need to know about the Booker Prize 2026 longlist | The Booker Prizes
From humour to history to heartbreak, and from satire to sci-fi to surreality, here’s the lowdown on this year’s ‘Booker Dozen’
thebookerprizes.com
Live at Noon Pacific Time on Wed, Jul 29: I'll discuss the upcoming prolonged, and potentially intense, SW US heatwave (inc. links to Pacific hurricane), & also recent surge in severe wildfire activity across Northern Hemisphere amid ongoing record heat.
Upcoming intense SW US heatwave & ongoing Northern Hemisphere wildfire activity amid record heat - YouTube
The latest in a recurring series of live, virtual, & interactive #weather and #climate-focused "office hours" hosted by Dr. Daniel Swain. 07/29/2026 topic: I...
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Beef has a huge climate problem. And the most effective solution -- by far -- is to simply reduce beef consumption and waste. But we don't want to hear that, so we often welcome fuzzy greenwashing stories instead. In the end, however, the math doesn't seem to work. drawdown.org/insights/gre...
Greenwashing and denial won’t solve beef’s enormous climate problems
Dive into the world of beef's environmental impact, from deforestation to climate change. Learn about the myths of "eco-friendly" beef and the industry's narratives.
drawdown.org
Rage, rage against the dying of the light. Human Nature by the climate scientist @drkatemarvel.bsky.social is a shocking book, all the more because the passion is controlled, the tone lyrical, the rants absent, the shocks measured. I deny denial but must confess complacency. No more. Read it. Soon!
"Beef consumption has consequences" is also a key plot point in the Odyssey
Dr. Jonathan Foley@globalecoguy.bsky.social · last wk.Beef has a huge climate problem. And the most effective solution -- by far -- is to simply reduce beef consumption and waste. But we don't want to hear that, so we often welcome fuzzy greenwashing stories instead. In the end, however, the math doesn't seem to work. drawdown.org/insights/gre...
Narrator: it was, in fact, exactly what scientists warned about
Dr. Genevieve Guenther (she/they)@doctorvive.bsky.social · last wk.The Prime Minister of Spain: “This climate emergency is exceeding every threshold and scale that scientists have long warned all of Spain and Europe about.” This is the realistic climate discourse the world needs. www.nytimes.com/2026/07/28/w...
Scientists warned you about: ♨️ more/longer/hotter heatwaves (hot planet=hot weather) 🌀 stronger storms (warm water=hurricane food) 🌧️ downpours (warm air holds more water vapor) 🌵 droughts (warm air is thirstier) 🔥 fire weather (hotter, drier) 🌊 sea level rise (land ice melts, warm water expands)
Also scientists: this will all carry on getting more extreme - until we stop burning fossil fuels.
Kate Marvel@drkatemarvel.bsky.social · last wk.Scientists warned you about: ♨️ more/longer/hotter heatwaves (hot planet=hot weather) 🌀 stronger storms (warm water=hurricane food) 🌧️ downpours (warm air holds more water vapor) 🌵 droughts (warm air is thirstier) 🔥 fire weather (hotter, drier) 🌊 sea level rise (land ice melts, warm water expands)
