Drew Pendergrass

Half-Earth Socialism, by @drewpendergrass.bsky.social and Troy Vettese, is now out in Italian thanks to Mimesis.

Here one of the authors answered our questions about ecosocialism, planning, vegetarian and vegan diets, social and environmental justice. Thanks to @jacobinitalia.bsky.social!

River or sankey diagram showing the allocation of profits from global oil and gas companies to quantiles of the US wealth size distribution via financial system intermediaries, such as asset managers, and categories of ultimate beneficiaries, such as business owners, pension funds and shareholders in listed companies. The scale is hundreds of billions of US dollars, and ultimately 50.4% of profits reaching the US personal wealth distribution go to the richest 1% of households.

🚨NEW PAPER🚨
We all know the 2022 energy price shock fueled the cost of living crisis. It also caused a profit bonanza for the very rich. We show the US reaped the largest profits ($377bn) of any country. 50% went to the richest 1%, only 1% to the bottom 50%. A🧵 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Israel has just arrested Greta Thunberg and many others.

Statement from the Global Sumud Flotilla:

“People of conscience have been abducted. The flotilla broke no laws. What is illegal is Israel’s genocide, Israel’s illegal blockade of Gaza, and Israel’s use of starvation as a weapon.”
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Nice paper, but disagree a bit on framing. “Our estimate of 96.9 Gt carbon sequestration potential…amounts to 17.6% of the 640 Gt of carbon emissions since 1750.” This may be smaller than other estimates but that’s still a lot of carbon!!! Much more than I’d expect from DAC this century!

La traduzione italiana mia e di @virginiamagnaghi.bsky.social di Half-Earth Socialism è uscita ieri! @drewpendergrass.bsky.social @versobooks.bsky.social

Candle drooping dramatically after it partially melted in a heat wave

Our candles post Boston heat wave lol; so dramatic

WORKSHOP | Historical Epistemologies of Planetary Modelling III - Unive seminario/lezione

VENICE: Exciting event happening on Monday and Tuesday 23-24th of June: www.unive.it/data/33113/2...

3rd HEPM workshop with a great line up of speakers including @drewpendergrass.bsky.social @beatricecointe.bsky.social @edouardmorena.bsky.social @geoffmann.bsky.social @julianordblad.bsky.social

Folks in Hamburg: I'll be giving a talk on the economist János Kornai at the New Institute on Tuesday 18 June at 12pm. All are welcome! thenew.institute/en/media/a-c...

Based on some quick math, this alone could fund the NSF Plant Genome Research Program for ~4 years; the NSF Postdoctoral Research Fellowship in Biology, which was totally axed in the NSF budget request, for ~9 years; and ~ half the total NSF GRFP budget

I'll be doing a mini book tour for our Swedish translation, starting in Stockholm tomorrow with @holgersen.bsky.social! Will be in Umeå on 13 June (www.facebook.com/events/68492...) to do my northernmost event yet (sun rises at 2:20am). All are welcome to talk green left politics!

Hur bygger vi en ekonomi som tillgodoser människors behov inom ekologiska gränser?
Missa inte samtalet imorgon med @holgersen.bsky.social och Drew Pendergrass.
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Please share and amplify #FreedomFlotilla #ShipToGaza

A screenshot from the proposed NSF budget request showing the number of people involved in NSF activities dropping from 330,100 in FY2024 to 90,000 in FY2026.

I need to actually get to my gate in time, but am stuck processing this particular table:

A closer look to figure out what this means for atmos chemists:
-GEO is cut by 45%, but includes a 75.1% cut to research (buffered by smaller cuts to infrastructure)
-NCAR gets a 39.7% cut with focus moving to ‘weather & earth system models’ and research to better understand wildfire evolution

Table showing FY26 budget numbers for NOAA from the Trump Administration.

Trump's Budget is out. For NOAA, it's exactly what the previous passback document showed.
Trump administration eliminations NOAA's Office of Oceanic and Atmospheric Research in its ongoing fight against science and reality.

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MPS budget

Presidential budget is out. Here's NSF. Biggest cut, by amount, is $1 billion, or 66.8%, from MPS (Physics & Math directorate). nsf-gov-resources.nsf.gov/files/00-NSF...

We have NASA's proposed budget for FY26, and it is brutal to science. Earth science would be cut by more than half. Astrophysics (like JWST, Hubble) by nearly two-thirds. Full details at www.nasa.gov/fy-2026-budg...

I'm having a conversation with @drewpendergrass.bsky.social on June 11 in Stockholm about the truly fascinating book Half-Earth Socialism – now available in Swedish!! The conversation will be in English. Join us!

@versobooks.bsky.social @verbalforlag.se

Text of image reads: “Images and models indicate that Phobos may be a rubble pile held together by a thin crust that is being torn apart by tidal interactions. Phobos gets closer to Mars by about 2 centimetres (0.79 in) per year”

Did Deimos write this?? So rude

To my newborn son: I am absent not out of apathy, but conviction | Mahmoud Khalil Deen, the grief I feel being apart from you is one drop in a sea of sorrow Palestinian families have drowned in for generations

“Like other Palestinian fathers, I was separated from you by racist regimes and distant prisons. Babies are born every day without their fathers – not because their fathers chose to leave, but because they are taken by war, by bombs, by prison cells and by the cold machinery of occupation.”

PhD Timeline xkcd.com/3081

Against the Crisis, alongside great titles from @zetkincollective.bsky.social, @drewpendergrass.bsky.social, @wimcarton.bsky.social, and @taddelay.bsky.social, is now 30% off!

🚨 Holgersen at Harvard!

For those nearby: Come see @holgersen.bsky.social talk about his new book with me and others interested in economic and ecological crises!

From the latest episode - @quinnslobodian.com on how all too often the far right has been mistakenly portrayed as the enemy of neoliberalism - and even capitalism in toto:

This is a horrifying violation of Rumeysa's constitutional rights to due process and free speech.

She must be immediately released.

And we won't stand by while the Trump Administration continues to abduct students with legal status and attack our fundamental freedoms.

I’m told this is a real letter. It basically says, “We’ll destroy Columbia unless you destroy it first.”

In Shocking Move, Columbia University Fires Union President One Day Before Contract Negotiations Begin, in Further Crackdown on Free Speech - UAW | United Automobile, Aerospace and Agricultural Implem... In the latest assault on First Amendment rights, Columbia University has expelled and fired Grant Miner, President of UAW Local 2710, which represents thousands of Columbia student workers.

Columbia has expelled the president of @swcolumbia.bsky.social, a HELU member org, for participation in Palestine solidarity activism. This comes less than 24 hours before SWC's first bargaining session. We stand with SWC-UAW against this illegal interference in bargaining.
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Speak out. Organize. Across all the silos. They are testing to see what they can get away with.

Italian translation of Half-Earth Socialism, by @drewpendergrass.bsky.social and Troy Vettese, coming soon!

With @virginiamagnaghi.bsky.social and by Mimesis

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