Kimberley Thomas

NEW: There’s a disaster unfolding in Alaska right now. And no major network is covering it.

The remnants of Typhoon Halong battered western Alaska overnight. Homes, with people in them, have literally been swept into the Bering Strait.

At least 20 are missing. No comment from any federal agency.

What do you do when your media org is captured? You start your own.

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He’s really going full fascism now, openly threatening American citizens while attacking both the press and basic democratic freedoms. Once again, Trump tried to glorify his deployment of the National Guard in

Let's get a hell yeah in the chat for this great write up of how we get more free as we adapt to climate change from @mills-novoa.bsky.social, @kimanh.bsky.social & @mmikulewicz.bsky.social

Martin Luther King Jr. Day was voted on 15 years after the assassination and 22 senators voted "no."

I would not — and I cannot stress this enough — trust anything coming from Pam Bondi, Kash Patel or anonymous "internal law enforcement sources." Fascists lie. We have evidence, both contemporary and historical. Unless there is indisputable proof behind a claim made in this case, question it.

Tenure-Track Assistant Professor of Peace, Justice, and Human Rights Haverford college seeks two Tenure-Track Assistant Professors of Peace, Justice, and Human Rights.

Two tenure-track positions at Haverford College in the Peace, Justice, and Human Rights program, with links to the Kim Ethics Institute.

An amazing place working with incredible colleagues!

(Deadline Oct. 24)

www.haverford.edu/provost/news...

The people whipping up panics about "academic freedom" rarely speak up when academic freedom is actually imperiled.

This is absolutely chilling.

In this short commentary in Nature Climate Change, @mills-novoa.bsky.social, @kimanh.bsky.social and I discuss the inherent issues with the project form in the context of adaptation. Projects, by their very nature, are not capable of delivering transformative adaptation. But there are alternatives!

Projects are not delivering the transformative change needed for climate change adaptation. This failure is due to the delivery of adaptation as projects. In this article, we explore real alternatives that can address the structural causes of vulnerability. DM for pdf! www.nature.com/articles/s41...

New comment in Nature climate change published this week on the dangers of adaptation projects by Meg Mills-Novoa, Kim Anh Thomas and Michael Mikulewicz (three scholars whose work you should follow!)

www.nature.com/articles/s41...

lemme tell you i study fascism for a living and this one got me staring at the screen gobsmacked for a good five minutes

It’s not just about villainization. It’s also about devaluation. The pandemic threw into stark relief how little they cared if older people and those with disabilities died.

Hands off Social Security! Social Security is facing the greatest threat of its nearly century-long existence. We have to fight back! Social Security Works is working to have as many rallies at Social Security offices as po...

We're organizing rallies around the country to save Social Security!

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we're defunding those silly volcano scientists and replacing them with an innovative program whereby kids in your area can pay down interest on their student lunch debts by collecting old batteries and other e-waste in wheelbarrows and then dumping them directly into live calderas

UNDERSTAND THE ASSIGNMENT: tomorrow, February 28th, is the Economic Blackout.

I ain’t buying shit. Plan ahead, but if you must buy essentials, use cash and support local businesses only. No corporate chains!

Moving beyond a climate politics of justice with no peace Published in Climate and Development (Ahead of Print, 2024)

The new executive orders slashing funding & programs for social justice and env’tl protection paint a bleak picture for the future of climate justice (CJ). But liberal political theory–the basis of the mainstream CJ movement–was always going to fall short even without these cuts tinyurl.com/2ju5k82x

Moving beyond a climate politics of justice with no peace Published in Climate and Development (Ahead of Print, 2024)

Thanks for reading! Check out the issue here:
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#3 Transformative climate futures require decoupling justice theory from its liberal roots.
“Climate justice otherwise” entails decentering the private market & liberal legal structures and elevating decolonial, relational & non-capitalist systems rooted in local & Indigenous worldviews & practices.

#2 Context matters
Climate impacts are shaped by local dynamics of social differentiation & uneven dev’t. Liberal climate justice theory can’t fit such context bc it relies on idealized notions of individuals, states & markets. Transformative CJ must recognize and value other knowledges & practices.

#1 Climate justice may become an empty signifier
By ignoring the liberal roots of justice theory, calls for transformative change will keep falling short bc of the contradictions between the radically diff't lifeworlds that are imagined & the way existing mainstream liberal systems are meant to work

Moving beyond a climate politics of justice with no peace Published in Climate and Development (Ahead of Print, 2024)

The premise of liberal conceptions of justice is that to know justice is to know peace. Yet, for those seeking redress for climate harms, there is little evidence to substantiate this position. My co-editor Kevon Rhiney and I offer 3 key takeaways from the special issue. tinyurl.com/2ju5k82x

Land matters: how Indigenous land restitution can inform loss and damage policy and chart a path toward an otherwise climate justice Loss and damage (L&D) has emerged as a focus for climate justice within the international policy arena and United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change meetings. L&D proposals often centre...

Instead, Correia proposes an ‘otherwise’ approach to climate justice in which L&D is reframed “as a transformative, relational process based on Indigenous priorities and worldviews…rather than resorting to liberal notions of commensurability.” tinyurl.com/58t373m9

Land matters: how Indigenous land restitution can inform loss and damage policy and chart a path toward an otherwise climate justice Loss and damage (L&D) has emerged as a focus for climate justice within the international policy arena and United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change meetings. L&D proposals often centre...

…but they also fail to “stem future problems because climate breakdown is not averted.” Thus, the exploitative processes that made reparations necessary in the first place remain unchallenged. tinyurl.com/58t373m9

Lastly, @joelecorreia.bsky.social links up financial restitution with epistemic justice. He evaluates loss and damage (L&D) through study of 12 Indigenous land restitution cases in Latin America. Not only do restitution and reparations fail to establish commensurability between harms and payments…

Financial innovation for climate justice: central banks and transformative ‘creative disruption’ Global financial architectures, including central banks and their monetary policies, are critical to leveraging transformative change for climate justice. Yet, currently central banks are exacerbat...

Instead of reactively coping with inevitable financial crisis, central banks should coordinate and initiate an intentional ‘creative disruption’ that reorients the economy toward equitable sustainability. To this end, they offer a monetary policy toolbox for climate justice. tinyurl.com/3js6x9bw

Financial systems have been implicated in climate change from the start. Yet they’re also central to wealth redistribution and thus to CJ. @jenniecstephens.bsky.social and @martinsokol.bsky.social locate a profound contradiction where central banks aim to stabilize an inherently unstable system.

Governing for a safe and just future with science-based targets: opportunities and limitations This paper reflects on the work of the Earth Commission and the Global Commons Alliance to include climate and environmental justice in establishing biophysical targets to stabilize the Earth syste...

Here, Earth system justice means realizing social justice while staying within Earth System Boundaries. This entails integrating biophysical & social targets through harm reduction for vulnerable groups, equitable resource access, and addressing environmental change at its root. tinyurl.com/2trnb37p

State and intergovernmental institutions often organize around targets like the SDGs & 30x30. Critics claim such goals suffer from poor scope, execution & outcomes. But @laurengifford.bsky.social @dianaliv.bsky.social @lisajac.bsky.social show global targets can also advance transformative change.