Mark Gongloff

Just saw some research about petro-masculinity. Looking forward to listening to this.

Thanks much, and I'd take that bet too.

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" It turns out Big Oil loved the show’s misleading nonsense so much that the American Petroleum Institute is running a “seven-figure ad campaign featuring real landmen” with its airings on Paramount+ and CBS" oh my god, so exhausting

Great to hear! Thanks for reading it.

Along with making everybody lose their minds, the Covid era also produced persistent inflation. That helped sour some politicians’ appetites for clean energy, which is still mistakenly perceived as being uniformly more expensive and less reliable than fossil fuels. In fact, production costs for new renewable output are lower than for new fossil-fuel supply, which helps explain why global green-energy investments have outpaced fossil-fuel investments throughout that same five-year stretch in which Americans supposedly fell back in love with oil. Renewables produced more global power than coal for the first time ever in the first half of this year, according to the think tank Ember. Green Investment Keeps Outpacing Fossil Fuels Global investment in clean energy has been consistently larger than investment in fossil-fuel supply in recent years, and the gap is growing

That the fossil fuel industry needs to hijack a TV show and have Billy Bob Thornton slur through garbage boomer Facebook-post decades-old wind farm disinfo is a marker of deep-set systemic corporate anxiety, not of confidence.

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Big Oil Hijacked ‘Landman’ for Its Propaganda I wasn’t planning on writing about the hit TV show Landman, about a Texas oil man, mainly because I haven’t actually, how do you say, watched it. That seems like kind of a prerequisite. But Landman ke...

Big Oil has hijacked "Landman" to spread the fossil-fuel industry's propaganda, @markgongloff.bsky.social says www.bloomberg.com/opinion/arti...

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"But this [fossil fuel] hype has a strong air of flop sweat." 🔥

And yours!

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Super good column in Bloomberg on the various soft propaganda ways that Big Oil shapes the cultural narrative on fossil fuels into something both manly and deeply romantic in a working class hero way as opposed to, you know, the thing that kills 91,000 Americans a year from air pollution alone.

Yeah, as I note in the column, a new study this week finds 47 million Americans live near FF infrastructure, which causes everything from low birth weights to cancer. The API won't advertise that

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Trump’s Anti-Green Agenda Could Lead to 1.3 Million More Climate Deaths. The Poorest Countries Will Be Impacted Most. Most of the people expected to suffer these temperature-related deaths live in poor countries in Africa and South Asia that are least prepared to cope with the increasing heat from climate change.

As if the millions of deaths from Trump & Musk shutting USAID weren't enough, Trump is going to kill at least a million more with his climate-change-accelerating policies - must-read from @propublica.org

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Thanks! There are a few good takedowns out there; I linked to one of them in the piece.

Big Oil Hijacked ‘Landman’ for Its Propaganda I wasn’t planning on writing about the hit TV show Landman, about a Texas oil man, mainly because I haven’t actually, how do you say, watched it. That seems like kind of a prerequisite. But Landman ke...

Big Oil loves Landman's anti-clean-energy message so much that it's hijacked it to spread its own propaganda

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Imagine being the one guy who voted not to release the Epstein files

This is the reporter that Donald Trump called "Piggy." She is Catherine Lucey, currently with Bloomberg.

I don't think it is a coincidence that, back in 2018, Lucey was the first reporter to ask Trump about Stormy Daniels. Trump responded with a lie, but, clearly, did not forget the question.

I mean, look, I'm not a reporter, so who am I to talk?

But on a day where the president both just called a woman reporter "Piggy" and is celebrating someone who had people bone saw apart one of my colleagues, I might just be a little ready to defend my colleagues and profession.

But that's just me

"things happen"; sometimes people are just randomly dismembered with bone saws. especially journalists who ask me mean questions.

Great French toast at those things

Eerily similar to the Bill Gates talking points

The Most Joyless Tech Revolution Ever: AI Is Making Us Rich and Unhappy Discomfort around artificial intelligence helps explain the disconnect between a solid economy and an anxious public.

That chart sums it up perfectly. AI is not actually making "us" rich, except for a very narrow subset of "us," but it is making all of us stupider and more miserable

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NYT headlines: After Climate Push, Energy Companies Return to Fossil Fuels in Europe Recent oil and gas deals in Europe suggest that the growing demand for energy may be leading companies to adopt a more pragmatic approach.

Really wish we could stop using the word “pragmatic” to describe polluting the planet for millennia

FEMA head resigns. Richardson had been hard to reach during Texas floods. David Richardson resigned Monday after a brief tenure leading the Federal Emergency Management Agency

"During his first day at FEMA, Richardson held an all-hands meeting that quickly made headlines. He told thousands of staff members listening in: 'Don’t get in my way.'"

What he meant was: Don't get in my way to the exit.

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How to Fill the Climate Void Left by the White House Regardless of your party affiliation, it was hard to feel too jazzed about California Governor Gavin Newsom representing the US at the COP30 climate talks in Belem, Brazil. Democrats will grouse that ...

America’s governors have a lot of power to prevent much of the climate-change damage inflicted by the federal government, @markgongloff.bsky.social says www.bloomberg.com/opinion/arti...

What a blast it was to talk to the smart, climate-conscious students at HCHS. I left there with much more hope for the future

How to Fill the Climate Void Left by the White House Regardless of your party affiliation, it was hard to feel too jazzed about California Governor Gavin Newsom representing the US at the COP30 climate talks in Belem, Brazil. Democrats will grouse that ...

"With the US government’s stance on climate change best summed up as “Make it worse, faster,” somebody’s got to fill the void."

@clicabedu.bsky.social walks state and local policymakers through the many tools they have.

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UN Orders Brazil to Improve Security, Poor Conditions at COP30 A top UN climate official demanded Brazilian authorities immediately develop a plan for addressing security lapses, soaring temperatures, flooding and other poor conditions at the COP30 conference in ...

Ironically, it's difficult to talk about climate change when you're battling oppressive heat and torrential rain

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