We should all be deeply concerned by the revelations in this thorough article by Peter Geoghegan @ democracyforsale.uk, about the lobbyists, funders & thinktanks surrounding Keir Starmer's government, its susceptibility to influence and its fading commitment to transparency. lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v46/…

States are increasingly looking to make polluters pay for the extreme costs of climate change. NY should be next, and all we need is for Governor Kathy Hochul to sign the Climate Change Superfund Act the legislature passed earlier this year. Get it done! stateline.org/2024/08/26/fac…

Dear #Kenya #SouthAfrica, please don't send your Cheetahs to die in Indian PM's vanity project. Please protect Cheetahs from this megalomaniac project. #Rewilding Namibian cheetah Pawan, only free-ranging big cat in Kuno National Park dies @deccanherald deccanherald.com/india/madhya-p…

Governments worldwide have privatized electricity over the past 50 years and increasingly rely on private companies to build renewable energy. Our new report shows why privatization can't bring a green transition, and how public ownership of the grid can. climateandcommunity.org/who-owns-power

There's a piece going around arguing that climate disinformation isn't a serious obstacle to climate action. IMO it rests on several incorrect premises, so I wrote a response. If you saw Holly Jean Buck's piece, I hope you'll take a look at this, too. 1/19 jacobin.com/2024/08/climat…

i learned so much from this thread! really appreciated this perspective, esp. coming from a former state rep.

I've been updating my teaching dossier to apply for renewal in Sept and was thrilled when a colleague sent me this Taylor Institute for Teaching and Learning 'teaching dossier guide,' as it includes suggestions about 'what goes where' & the functions particular sections can serve. taylorinstitute.ucalgary.ca/resources/teac…

These arguments about how to frame climate change are over-rated. What matters more is whether you can design policies that actually benefit the working class. Once you get the right policies, it's easier to frame them differently! #EnergyTransition e.g., doi.org/10.1016/j.erss…

With money being drained out of developing countries by a ramshackle dollar financial order, there's a development & climate finance crisis. "COUNTRY PLATFORMS" is the latest trick. What are they? Out soon. Sign up here for our The Polycrisis newsletter phenomenalworld.org/series/the-pol…

This young man has shown quite a bit of maturity in acknowledging that some of his statements were factually incorrect. #Influencers #HarrisWalz #Punditry

As Columbia students resume their protests, here's your reminder to hire Palestinian student journalists to write stories on campus protests!!! We know our community best! Editors: DM me & I will happily send you names of current Palestinian student journos in NYC

Our new research out today in Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews reveals how the fossil fuel industry has strategically invested in universities for decades to block transformative climate action. w/ Sofia Hiltner, Emily Eaton Noel Healy Andrew Scerri Geoffrey Supran THREAD

Why did the New York Times invite Project 2025 architect Kevin Roberts to speak at its climate conference? Idk! But I read the parts of his book where he talks about it and it’s nuts newrepublic.com/article/185683…

Some key dates for ANU PhD scholarships: Domestic scholarships close 31 October 2024; International scholarships close 15 April 2025. Contact me if you are keen on researching the political ecology of meat and would be competitive in a scholarship round!

California bans offshore oil drilling across another 116 miles of the coast. Save the whales.🐋 santacruzsentinel.com/2024/09/06/cal…

Hindus cutting down high tension wires to carry a statue. It will break supply of electricity to many houses, kids have exams, patients cannot sleep but its ok as long as Hindus do all this in this country

Moderate amount of greewashing is still greewashing. Okay? #Greenwashing #ESG

Follow the conversation on decolonization among the Naga people in connection with the repatriation of Naga ancestral human remains from the Pitt Rivers Museum at Oxford University. Check out rrad.org to learn about the initiative. September Dialogue 2024 was 🫶🏼.

Some Hindu idiots!

Hobsbawm probably could not foresee that once produced, the nationalism project moves beyond historian(s) and their craft’s control....In the 78th year of our independence, we must have a football field of a distance between “loving your government” and “loving your nation”.