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Published: April 2, 2025 23:29

Remember when Hillary Clinton called Trump Putin's puppet in that 2016 debate? If you posit that she was right then Trump's policies make a lot more sense.

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Published: April 2, 2025 19:55

.@jksteinberger.bsky.social gets this right: "Perhaps the most frightening aspect is that the industries laughing in the face of planetary and social destruction have made a clear calculus: they don’t need prosperous economies to profit." Read, please! …

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Published: April 2, 2025 18:18

Gah, re-reading this in my mentions makes me realize I sound like I think being socialist is a "difficult" sacrifice! Not what I mean at all. I mean: the difficult realities of the climate crisis can be addressed only by suspending the profit motive and by…

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Published: April 2, 2025 15:07

BREAKING 📢: BANKS WILLING TO MAKE PARTS OF OUR PLANET UNINHABITABLE AND KILL BILLIONS OF PEOPLE BECAUSE THE CLEAN-ENERGY TRANSITION ISN'T PROFITABLE! (Haha, just kidding. That's not news. That's been the major problem with solving #ClimateChange under…

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Published: April 1, 2025 18:25

Hmm, this "Abundance" stuff involves an awful lot of support for increasing fossil-fuel production. (This is bad because we already have too much fossil fuel to halt global heating at 2C.) 1/2

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Published: April 1, 2025 10:54

Want to better understand colony collapse? Read this NY Mag David Wallace-Wells piece from (gulp) ten years ago: http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2015/06/bees-are-literally-worrying-themselves-to-death.html [contains quote post or other embedded…

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Published: April 1, 2025 10:40

also this! [contains quote post or other embedded content]

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Published: April 1, 2025 10:32

work / volunteer to get Republicans out of power and to educate Democrats on climate and ecological issues. talk in your networks about your desire to end fossil fuels so we can save the future. be the good and fuck despair! remember: a billion drops of…

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Published: April 1, 2025 10:15

Oh look, yet another study finding that the warming we currently expect (without further policy leading to *actual* fossil-fuel phaseout) will wipe out around half the global economy. Just think about what this means.

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Published: April 1, 2025 00:27

Does it matter to anyone that in the same breath as Lary Fink cites "Abundance" in his 2025 BlackRock letter—as showing that liberals are blocking infrastructure development—he also says that renewables "cannot keep the lights on" and we must develop more…

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Published: March 31, 2025 20:44

Hundreds of millions of bees, almost 80% of bees in the US, have died over he past eight months. Researchers don't know why. Here is what this means:

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Published: March 31, 2025 14:25

It's insane the way, when you write about climate change, you always have to take a paragraph in the beginning of your piece to try and establish the seriousness of the crisis. It's truly gobsmacking, if you think about it. I pray for the day that…

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Published: March 30, 2025 12:41

Hi @solarchase.bsky.social disregard my previous post — I found something ... by googling! 😆😇

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Published: March 30, 2025 11:18

weird. research funded by oil and gas companies is inevitably bullish on carbon capture and storage. I wonder why that might be? [contains quote post or other embedded content]

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Published: March 29, 2025 22:12

uhm, due process is exactly for people who are being accused of violating the law [contains quote post or other embedded content]

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Published: March 29, 2025 10:38

👀 "Fossil Future" by Alex Epstein on the left "Abundance" on the right 😭

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Published: March 28, 2025 20:06

The core technique of political communication in the Trump regime: projection of their own villainy on to others. [contains quote post or other embedded content]

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Published: March 28, 2025 18:13

"A woman is a person that in many cases had been treated vey badly." I think this speaks volumes about the way that Trump constructs masculinity, as well as femininity, actually. [contains quote post or other embedded content]

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Published: March 28, 2025 17:07

Ok I think even Abundists need to admit something has gone off the rails when Elon Musk starts RTing Ezra Klein.

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Published: March 28, 2025 13:37

This is so cool! A @carbonbrief.org absolute must-read from @wanyuansong.bsky.social and Xiaoying You on the language of climate politics in China: …

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Published: March 27, 2025 13:39

Calling this now: Trump is going to withhold federal funds from blue states after climate disasters. He is going to use the government to punish Americans who didn't vote for him.

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Published: March 27, 2025 13:24

Clean energy is unequivocally cheaper for consumers — and a money-maker for society overall, just from the macroeconomic health-care savings of eliminating most air pollution, let alone from the benefits of halting global heating. But is it profitable for…

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Published: March 27, 2025 11:53

It's absolutely gutting to read, but @markgongloff.bsky.social and Elaine He have done us a real service by mapping out the full breadth and intensity of Trump's assault on the federal government's capacity to fight climate change. Save this one. …

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Published: March 27, 2025 11:08

A group funded by this guy, coal baron Joseph Craft, in coordination with the American Petroleum Institute and Repub officials, is trying to shake down the U of M law school professor who provided research enabling the enactment of state climate superfund…

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Published: March 26, 2025 16:03

Since @resnikoff.bsky.social has closed comments, I'll quote-post Alec Stapp's praise for fossil-fuel-advocate Doug Bergum as "a YIMBY abundance guy." Matt Yglesias also argues explicitly that the US should EXPAND methane-gas production. As here: …

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Published: March 26, 2025 12:45

here are the war plans Hegseth texted [contains quote post or other embedded content]

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Published: March 26, 2025 12:40

Here's the group chat. This kind of talk about war plans, heard by the wrong people, could have gotten Americans killed. https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2025/03/signal-group-chat-attack-plans-hegseth-goldberg/682176/

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Published: March 26, 2025 12:28

Typical. A whole article on China as a climate villain by those dishonest Breakthrough Institute bros, who never once mention the 1+N policies China enacted in 2021. (What are the 1+N policies, you ask? Only the largest suite of climate policies passed…

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Published: March 26, 2025 11:49

Let's stop citing "the environmental Kuznets curve" to say that making people rich increases their concern about #ClimateChange. This study finds that polarisation around climate is also among weather countries — those with higher per-capita CO2…

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Published: March 25, 2025 20:46

From a former Senior Economist at the White House Counsel of Economic Advisors and now at Columbia University (so neither a degrowther nor a hippy): [contains quote post or other embedded content]