Mark Vossler, MD (he/him)

I often wondered what the world would look like if the most ignorant, dangerous & daft opinions of radio phone-in hosts/callers were permitted to prevail. I never expected to find out…

Daily reminder that GHG emissions endanger human health!

80 years ago. It’s time to abolish nuclear weapons!

normalize being a good person

Plastic pollution 'grave and growing' health threat: Lancet Plastic pollution is a "grave, growing and under-recognized danger" to health that is costing the world at least $1.5 trillion a year, experts warned in a report on Monday.

We need to produce significantly less plastic; recycle a lot more of what is produced; and stop the rest getting into natural ecosystems

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“Investing in cycling infrastructure is one of the most powerful tools available to reduce congestion.”

Dr. Shoshanna Saxe, Canada Research Chair in Sustainable Infrastructure and Associate Professor at the U of Toronto. Recent testimony to Ontario Superior Court in favor of bike facilities.

As much of the US braces for extreme heat, statistics show 2,000 die from it annually As extreme heat is forecast to invade most of the United States this week, health departments are warning people to take steps to survive.

Extreme heat is the deadliest weather-related hazard in the U.S., claiming roughly 2,000 people annually, but experts note the official heat-related death toll may be undercounted due to heat sometimes not being considered as a factor in someone's death.
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Take note: the Trump administration is using a ridiculous metric to deny clean energy projects while fully ignoring human health risks & consumer costs

First they came for Texans….wake up people!!!

Before environmental regulations we had polluted rivers catching on fire and cities turning on streetlights in the afternoon because the smog was so thick

80 Years After Hiroshima Bombing, Art Needs ‘Courage to Be Afraid’ (Gift Article) Eighty years after the city’s destruction, we seem to be blundering into a new age of nuclear perils. It is time for culture to rediscover “the courage to be afraid.”

Explore this gift article from The New York Times. You can read it for free without a subscription. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

Trying to keep your brain young? A big new study finds these lifestyle changes help A study of more than 2,100 people ages 60 to 79 found that an intensive two-year program of mental and physical activities, along with a heart-healthy diet, improved memory and thinking.

A study of more than 2,100 people ages 60 to 79 found that an intensive two-year program of mental and physical activities, along with a heart-healthy diet, improved memory and thinking.

Begs two questions 1) Why have we failed to abolish nuclear weapons? 2) Having failed #1, why do we let a demented lunatic have sole authority to launch?

Hot on the heels of rescinding the EPA endangerment finding. The Trump administration is willing to kill Americans to preserve fossil fuel profits!!

BLM Calls New Oil and Gas Rules ‘Noncontroversial,’ Exempts Them From Public Comment - Inside Climate News Environmentalists say the lack of public comment shows the administration’s disregard for maintaining public lands.

This is an outrage. Governments "of the people, by the people, for the people" allow public input on proposed courses of action. Trump's government is of the fossil fuel industry, by the fossil fuel industry, and for the fossil fuel industry, at the expense of our health & planetary health.

Daily reminder: Climate change endangers human health. This week the Trump administration decided that the EPA should not protect in the face of this fact & then doubled down by actively blocking clean energy development

SO 3438 - Managing Federal Energy Resources and Protecting the Environment | U.S. Department of the Interior SO 3438

Here’s the text of the new Interior Department order that made my phone blow up this evening.

It’s very complicated. I recommend you read the story I have posted above, as I spent my Friday night digesting it and it hasn’t been elucidated clearly elsewhere.

Here is why your electricity bills are going to keep going up

The renewable energy revolution is a feat of technology | Rebecca Solnit An energy revolution is underway in this century, though most people have not noticed it

An energy revolution is underway in this century, though it’s unfolded in ways slow enough and technical enough for most people not to notice (and I assume it’s nowhere near finished). It is astonishing – a powerful solution to the climate crisis... [Wrote it a while ago; came out yesterday.]

Prediction: as electricity costs (continue to) rise in coming years, Trump & the right will falsely blame clean energy & the quiescent US political press will dutifully amplify that message. A coherent, competent communications apparatus would see that coming & do something to forestall it ...

The Christmas Goose didn’t fire the staffer that delivered bad news. The Tyrant fid

We’re being forced to buy more expensive, dirtier fuels because a corrupt, anti-competitive industry is in control of the levers of state.

Renewables are now cheaper than fossil fuels. Renewables are NOT why your electricity bills are going up

I’m finding that intelligent, concerned, but disengaged Americans still believe that renewables cost more & that intermittency is unsolvable. Won’t be hard to continue to dupe them with a stream of lies. My head hurts

So few people get this. My head hurts from explaining it

When we don’t build new housing in the places rich people want to live, they buy existing older homes and renovate them into luxury housing.

When we DO build new market rate housing, rich people move into it, setting off a “moving on up” effect that creates vacancy in the cheapest housing.

Hmmm. I’m in that demographic and I haven’t noticed any rights that I’ve lost. I see others losing theirs though

Maxwell gets the country club, immigrants get Alligator Alcatraz.

The Republican campaign to stop the U.S. EPA from protecting the climate » Yale Climate Connections An audacious effort to destroy climate regulations is likely headed for a showdown at the Supreme Court.

I read EPA’s 302-page proposal to nuke the endangered endangerment finding so that you don’t have to, and wrote about what the insanity all means for @climateconnections.bsky.social. Thanks to @gregdotson.bsky.social, @hausfath.bsky.social, @michaelemann.bsky.social for the input. Article & 🧵(1/14):

Today’s daily reminder that climate change endangers human health. See you in court.