Seeing Zohran instantly getting a bunch of shit done in like a week makes you realize that politicians could always do that on some level if they wanted it bad enough and very few of them actually do.

"Maduro is a brutal authoritarian dictator," I wisely intone, as the corrupt demented paedophile US President violating Constitutional Law while operating a gestapo and concentration camps illegally arrests a foreign leader on charges which read like they were written on a paper placemat in crayon.

A study by the Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research has estimated that in the first two years of the war in Gaza, between 99,997 en 125,915 Palestinians have been killed, with 27% of the dead aged under 15 www.bnr.nl/nieuws/inter...

🚨 NEW: Climate change is already causing 30,000 deaths per year - a global annual economic loss of $100-350B USD - but the true damage is probably 10x higher. Out TODAY in Nature Climate Change: the first systematic look at the science of "health impact attribution" 🔓 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

The average SNAP benefit per month is $177 a person. The average ACA benefit per month is up to $550 a person. People want us to hold the line for a reason. This is not a matter of appealing to a base. It’s about people’s lives. And working people want leaders whose word means something to them.

Yes, this is correct. And the reason is because our capitalist classes have decided that it is not sufficiently profitable, so they're not going to do it. We must understand this reality. Capital *cannot* be relied upon to address the climate crisis.

🎉 New in PLOS Climate: my final dissertation chapter. Using citizen-science data + travel-cost + ML, we track non-urban recreation in South Africa and its non-market value under current and future conditions. Key: climate drives change and non-market values largely decrease: tinyurl.com/az756mew

We’d be in a much stronger position right now if mainstream Democrats had taken a common sense stand for First Amendment principles instead of piling on undergraduate standing up for Palestine.

A realllllly good TikTok explainer by historian Tad Stoermer on why the Gavin Newsoms and Ezra Kleins of the world are embracing Charlie Kirk’s project. www.tiktok.com/t/ZP8SDQSKD/

i’m not going to be lectured about political violence by people whose politics is violence

"We weren’t put here, in this place, in this time, just to lament about what could’ve been. We are here to take an active role in changing it. The future is not fixed, all is not lost."

Fun time writing for @theconversation.com ! Please share! Controlled burns reduce wildfire risk, but they require trained staff and funding − this could be a rough year theconversation.com/controlled-b...

For this week's #HumansOfCIRES, meet Kyle Manley @ktmanley.bsky.social, a CIRES visiting fellow @earthlabcu.bsky.social. Kyle studies wildfire impacts and risk, he grew up south of Denver, and his favorite book is “The Nutmeg’s Curse: Parables for a Planet in Crisis." Read more: buff.ly/dPmkyoP

A tricky thing about modern society is that no one has any idea when they don’t die. Like, the number of lives saved by controlling air pollution in America is probably over 200,000 per year, but the number of people who think their life was saved by controlling air pollution is zero.

The richest 1% hold 45% of wealth while 44% of humanity lives in poverty—endless capital accumulation drives us beyond habitable planetary limits. Capitalism isn’t broken, it’s working as designed; capital accumulation and environmental collapse won’t stop until we dismantle it: tinyurl.com/4n6s4p84

Wildlife contributes to human well-being and values in visible and invisible ways that are under-recognized or dominated by conflict narratives. We review these critical contributions and what research and policy is needed to protect them: www.nature.com/articles/s44...

Is there a link between #ClimateChange & increasing risk/severity of #wildfire in California--including the still-unfolding disaster? Yes. Is climate change the only factor at play? No, of course not. So what's really going on? [Thread] #CAfire #CAwx #LAfires iopscience.iop.org/a...

After the hottest year on record with seemingly endless climate disasters, @democrats.org argued against our right to live in a healthy environment at the ICJ. As long as the system is designed to serve corporations/billionaires, this crisis will never be meaningfully addressed tinyurl.com/5n6nmv74

Exciting news! Our new PLOS ONE paper showcases the success of Ridge2Reef, our NSF NRT program, in training the next generation of environmental problem solvers. 🌍 Boosted interdisciplinary skills Prepped grads for diverse careers A model for modern inclusive grad education 🧑‍🔬 tinyurl.com/7rcmxxc2

NEW – IPBES nexus report: Five takeaways for biodiversity, food, water, health and climate ✍️ @daisydunne.carbonbrief.org @ceciliakeating.carbonbrief.org @ayeshatandon.carbonbrief.org @ayeshatandon.carbonbrief.org 🔗 Read here ⬇️

🚨 OUT NOW 🚨 📚 The @ipbes.bsky.social #NexusAssessment Summary for Policymakers is now available! ➡️ Explore the most comprehensive assessment ever of the interconnections between biodiversity, water, food, health & climate. 🌏 Options for a just & sustainable future! www.ipbes.net/node/85582

NEW PAPER: The 2022 fossil fuel price jumps caused an oil and gas profit explosion. We show the US reaped the largest profit increase (USD 275bn) of any country. Big Oil claims this benefits the American people. In fact, 51% went to the richest 1%, only 1% to the bottom 50%. A 🧵

Hi 👋 new BlueSky followers! Introducing our lab group @colorado.edu. We aim to understand and design solutions to the grand challenges of biodiversity loss and climate change. Our research combines global change ecology, community ecology, ecosystem sci, economics & conservation science to: 1/n

First @ktmanley.bsky.social is a postdoc with me and @ciresnews.bsky.social who studies how climate change and land-use alter cultural values and relational values from nature. He is now studying the impacts of 🔥 & fire management on these values in the Western US. x/n (lol)

We are hiring a postdoc in my lab @colorado.edu to work on this NSF CAREER proposal (tinyurl.com/cak8dkza) to quantify how and when global change (drought, warming) alters the role of biodiversity in ecosystem functioning. Job here: colorado.avature.net/searchhub/Jo... 1/2

“The greatest trick the fossil fuel industry ever played was convincing us that the climate crisis is a suicide, rather than a homicide”

1/5 A groundbreaking Amnesty report published today concludes Israeli authorities are committing genocide against Palestinians in Gaza. www.amnesty.org.uk/genocide-rep...

The US under both Republican and Democratic administrations has been arguing against legally-binding climate treaties at the COPs since at least 1998. Now Biden's lawyers are doing it at the International Court of Justice. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

We have reached “privatize our public lands” levels of deranged libertarianism. Subsidizing mega-corporations with the loss of biodiversity and uncountable instrumental, relational, and intrinsic values our ecosystems, oftentimes irreplaceably, is something we already study, there are no benefits.

"Genocide,colonial conquest, the seizure of resources from the poor: all are resurgent, even before Trump returns to the White House.The rich have learned how to game our political systems. Capital has found the means of solving its longstanding problem:democracy" www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

We all need to become eco-populists. That means championing policies that significantly lower daily costs while lowering emissions. Heat Pumps for All, alongside much more robust tenant rights; free and better public transit; price caps on green energy; make polluters pay for the transition. (4/8)

COP29 is wrapping up this week and people are (finally) calling for the process to be overhauled to *maybe* reduce oil industry influence over it. New documents we uncovered reveal they used a little known UN org to infiltrate from jump. First of three stories: drilled.media/news/IPIECA1

Please allow me to re-share my rough sketch of some advanced carbon capture technology

There are many ways in which the potential marriage of the goals tackling climate change and restoring biodiversity is a good thing. But also real dangers of an abusive relationship if biodiversity is subordinated to an overpowering drive for carbon sequestration and biofuels.

Hi everyone! I’m Kyle, an interdisciplinary environmental scientist, generally interested in the human consequences of our changing planet, currently focused on cultural #EcosystemServices. Here’s a more in-depth piece from UCI, where I recently finished my PhD. Let’s connect! ps.uci.edu/news/3123

I fundamentally disagree w/ the idea that science is “apolitical.” Any critical thinker can see that what we call “science” is inherently invested with power, that the history of science is highly political, and that its benefits & risks are not distributed equally. It is important to be honest here