Brian J Kennedy

More Everything Forever This "wild and utterly engaging narrative" (Melanie Mitchell) shows why Silicon Valley’s heartless, baseless, and foolish obsessions—with escaping death,...

Today's the day! My new book MORE EVERYTHING FOREVER is finally out! If you want to understand why tech billionaires are so obsessed with impossible ideas about space and AI — and why that's dangerous — this book is for you. #MoreEverythingForever www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/adam-...

Extraordinary scenes in Serbia’s capital Belgrade right now.

Around 500,000 people are on the streets in what may be the biggest protest in Serbian history. All demanding the resignation of President Vučić & his government.

What began as a student protest is now a full democratic uprising.
🇷🇸

This person has no idea how many people have died, or will die, as a result of shattering our entire global infrastructure for providing lifesaving assistance.

He did no analysis of those impacts before the reckless and illegal obliteration of USAID. These statements are made-up assertions.

Budapest today. People are demanding that PM Orban resign.

Kananmunat | Suomi vastasi Yhdysvalloille: Tätä munakriisiä emme pysty ratkaisemaan Suomi on lähettänyt Yhdysvalloille vastauksen munakysymykseen, kertoo toiminnanjohtaja Veera Lehtilä Siipikarjaliitosta.

”Finland can’t solve the US egg crisis”

The US has asked at least Finland, Sweden, Denmark and the Netherlands for eggs amid the growing bird flu-induced egg shortage in the US. Responses have been rather lukewarm.

The audacity of first imposing tariffs and then asking for help is kinda pathetic

Graph showing nasa science funding since 1980 and proposed cut

"If this is implemented, it would be nothing short of an extinction-level event for space science and exploration in the United State"

arstechnica.com/space/2025/0...

Powerful stories of community and action on climate and health coming out of #OurPlanetOurHealth conference in DC. ⚕️🌎

There are protests this Tuesday (March 4th) and #StandUpForScience rallies and protests on Friday March 7th. Then WomensMarches on the 8th. Get out there. We have a job to do because the current GOP are keeping us from doing our real jobs. 🧪🦠🌎🧬🗽

literally no other journalist should be going to these in basic solidarity with the AP at this point.

How people image God is connected to their response to the Anthropocene.

Tragically true

Excellent arguments

Cartoon of man on plane with hand raised, saying “These smug pilots have lost touch with regular passengers like us. Who thinks I should fly the plane?”

Always 💖

Don't make me tap the sign

If CDR only has a durability of 100 years (e.g. much of the CDR market today), it would result in 1.1C more warming by 2500 in a scenario that otherwise stabilizes warming below 2C. CDR with a >1000-year durability is required to stabilize global temperatures.

Great article!

In Hawaii, Parasites And Viruses Team Up In The Battle Against Fruit Flies An entomologist explains the implication for global pest control and the world’s food supply. Take a stroll along one of the beaches on Hawaii island in late summer, and you’ll likely stumble upon almond-shaped fruits lying in the sand. Known...

In Hawaii, Parasites And Viruses Team Up In The Battle Against Fruit Flies
->Civil Beat | More info from EcoSearch

Here it feels like we are in this together

Tragic shorting of our futures

A figure of oil production for the top 10 oil-producing nations: United States, Russia, Saudi Arabia, Canada, Iran, Iraq, China, Brazil, United Arab Emirates, and Kuwait, with the US being the largest, overtaking Russian and Saudi Arabia in production in 2017.

In case you didn't think the US was a petrostate, here's a time series of oil production of the top 10 oil-producing nations.

Durability of carbon dioxide removal is critical for stabilizing temperatures Letting countries or companies neutralize fossil fuel emissions with temporary carbon removal fundamentally breaks the math of net zero.

On The Climate Brink, Zeke Hausfather writes about how long CO2 removal has to sequester CO2 to be effective. The answer: millennial or longer time scales. This is one of the key reasons that TREES! (TM) is not a good solution to climate change.
www.theclimatebrink....

That leaves the climate movement with 2 options:

A/ Hide in the crowded, less-discussed policy backpack of the Democratic Party, and hope for the best.

B/ Rebuild the movement to foreground policies, messaging, and organizing strategies to engage everyday needs of working people.

I choose B.

2/2

Line graph time series of 2024's daily Arctic sea ice extent compared to decadal averages from the 1980s to the 2010s. The decadal averages are shown with different colored lines with white for the 1980s, green for the 1990s, blue for the 2000s, and purple for the 2010s. Thin white lines are also shown for each year from 2002 to 2022. 2024 is shown with a thick gold line. There is a long-term decreasing trend in ice extent for every day of the year shown on this graph between September and December by looking at the decadal average line positions.

Monday ice update - #Arctic sea ice extent is currently the 4th lowest on record (JAXA data)

• about 380,000 km² below the 2010s mean
• about 1,080,000 km² below the 2000s mean
• about 1,710,000 km² below the 1990s mean
• about 2,030,000 km² below the 1980s mean

Plots zacklabe.com/arctic-sea-i...

Repost this if you’re old enough to remember when they tried to convince us that “global warming stopped in 2008” (or whenever).

Carbon dioxide from burning fossil fuels is acidifying the ocean making it more difficult for marine organisms to build shells and skeletons. Illustration Nicky Ackland-Snow. From 30-Second Ocean, Yeung-Djern Lenn and Mattias Green, Eds.

Anthropogenic Global Warming, Climate Change & Flora & Fauna Extinction isn't caused by any 1 faction of humans.

The problem is in humanity's collective consciousness,
A self-serving thought/choice/action mentality.

A paradigm shift to a Self/Humanity/Earth-Serving way of living is the solve🦋LJC

Morning in Paradise

I’m Brian, Catholic priest, rural aqueduct builder, Dominican Republic, avid photographer. Here to learn.

What a Tunisian exodus says about the future of global migration In an age of global migration, Tunisia offers a window into key stressors driving migrants from their homes.

Drought is the #1 climate change threat. “The share of refugees and asylum-seekers from regions threatened by climate change, for instance, has jumped from 61% in 2010 to 84% in 2022, according to the United Nations refugee agency.”

www.csmonitor.com/World/Middle...