David Wallace-Wells

Trump administration proposes Colorado River options that could hit California hard With rules governing the hard-hit Colorado River set to expire, the Trump administration presented options for dealing with the ongoing water shortages. Some experts said they would require greater sa...

Update: The Trump administration has released an outline of options for dealing with the Colorado River’s deepening water shortages, and they could dramatically cut the amount of water available for Southern California. www.latimes.com/environment/... @latimes.com

I've been well aware of this reality for years but I was still shocked to learn some time ago that 40 PERCENT of freight shipping is fossil fuels

keep thinking of a vocally anti-woke reporter who insisted that the term "environmental racism" was nonsense

Opinion | Biden Left Us With a ‘Prius Economy.’ It’s Time for Something Different.

I'm going to repost our oped, bc the climate discourse is even worse than when we wrote it a year ago.

1/ Biden's IRA didn't fail bc of of Sunrise, the left, etc, it failed bc it had no impact on working class lives.

2/ Green economic populism is how we win.

www.nytimes.com/2025/01/07/o...

America is Losing Blue Collar Jobs For the First Time Since Early COVID & the Great Recession, the US is Losing Jobs in Manufacturing, Construction, & Other Blue Collar Industries

NEW from me:

The US is losing blue-collar jobs for the first time since early COVID or the Great Recession—the country has lost 65k jobs over the last year as manufacturing, transport, & mining employment decline, while growth in construction has nearly zeroed out
www.apricitas.io/p/america-is...

Eyes wide open, folks. They're revealing the supervillain plot.

www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

Opinion | Which City Burns Next?

The LA fires are probably your most vivid illustration of our new age of wildfire and all the devastation it promises. But were they even wildfires? The ignition wasn’t wild, the fuel wasn’t wild, the landscape wasn’t wildland and wildland firefighting couldn’t help. www.nytimes.com/2026/01/05/o...

a world map with locations of extreme weather event studies by WWA in pink & yellow dots

Looking back to @wwattribution.bsky.social studies in 2025 showed again, in stark terms, how unfairly the consequences of human-induced climate change are distributed. The world does not have to be like this, we have a lot of agency to make it better. www.worldweatherattribution.org/unequal-evid...

“MAHA says don’t change the system, change yourself. Purify your body. Deny your kid vaccines. Blame the sick for their sickness. It’s magical thinking for the carceral state.”

“MAHA is a seductive process because it speaks to real pain—the pain of being abandoned. But it offers no solidarity only self management, not justice only blame, not transformation only cruelty disguised as wellness.”

People are angry, and that anger is real. But MAHA redirects it away from the structural forces that create this crisis towards conspiracy and scapegoating.

On the surface, MAHA sounds like it’s about healing, about fixing a broken system. Its appeal is rooted in a widespread, deeply felt experience of abandonment by our health care system—a system that feels extractive, cruel, expensive and overall indifferent to everyday suffering.

Teaser - Health Fascism and the Anti-State State (12/22/25) Podcast Episode · Death Panel · 12/22/2025 · 7m

“MAHA works in large part because it promises sweeping change and improved health even when in practice what it delivers is benefit cuts, deregulation, and increased spread of contagious disease.” podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/d...

"The 2008 Great Recession shifted Americans toward identifying as a lower class" pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/41417466/

Volcano eruption may have led to the Black Death coming to Europe Climate data and historical accounts suggest that crop failures in the 1340s prompted Italian officials to import grain from eastern Europe, and this may have carried in the plague bacterium

Climate data and historical accounts suggest that crop failures in the 1340s prompted Italian officials to import grain from eastern Europe, and this may have carried in the plague bacterium

2025 Year in Review: A Remarkable Drop In Crime Crime almost certainly fell an enormous amount in 2025.

In 2025, the murder rate was the lowest ever recorded, with records going back all the way to 1960. It also set a record for the largest single year decline in murder rate since 1960. It was the third straight year in which a new record for largest decline was set. open.substack.com/pub/jasher/p...

In YouGov polling this week, less than half of Republicans said they strongly approved of Trump. www.ms.now/opinion/poll...

Sri Lanka tea workers struggle in poverty. Flooding cost many their lives After Sri Lanka struggled through one of the worst storms in its history, tea plantation workers are taking temporary refuge in government schools and temples as entire villages were buried in mud in the central highlands.

After Sri Lanka struggled through one of the worst storms in its history, tea plantation workers are taking temporary refuge in government schools and temples as entire villages were buried in mud in the central highlands.

The projection is offered in the spirit of generating a testable claim about the acceleration of warming primarily from the drawdown of aerosols.

Global Temperature in 2025, 2026, 2027 James Hansen, Pushker Kharecha, Dylan Morgan and Jasen Vest

The great Jim Hansen predicts that global average temperatures will jump 0.23 degrees Celsius in a single year, between 2026 (which he projects will see warming of 1.47 degrees C) to 2027 (which he projects will see 1.70 degrees C). open.substack.com/pub/jimehans...

Scoop: FDA vaccine chief’s memo cited 10 pediatric Covid-19 vaccine deaths—but the agency’s own analysis found 0–7. Dr. Vinay Prasad circulated a memo before FDA scientists finished their work. His conclusions overshot what the agency’s own analysts ultimately found.

open.substack.com/pub/insideme...

Earthworm Invaders Little-known secret: Almost every earthworm in most of the U.S. came from somewhere else. Native earthworms all but disappeared more than 10,000 years ago, when glaciers from a Pleistocene ice age …

“Little-known secret: Almost every earthworm in most of the U.S. came from somewhere else. Native earthworms all but disappeared more than 10,000 years ago, when glaciers from a Pleistocene ice age wiped them out.” ecosystemsontheedge.org/earthworm-in...

Millennial Republicans more likely to identify as racist than Boomers: poll A national survey found that Millennial Republicans are more likely to call themselves racist than Baby Boomer Republicans.

‘A total of 34% of Republican survey respondents between the ages of 30 and 49 answered “I am such person” when asked for their views on individuals who openly express racist views. Only 3% of survey respondents over the age of 65 answered “I am such person.”’ www.newsweek.com/millennial-r...

How the G20 Can Lead the Fight Against Global Inequality Jayati Ghosh argues that addressing the increasing concentration of wealth requires understanding exactly what's driving it.

“More than 40% of the wealth generated since the start of the century has gone to the wealthiest 1%, while the bottom half of the world’s population received just 1%.” www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/g...