ugh
“We want to change the rules of the next election so Democrats don’t win anymore”
Are you coming to New York? 😆
evergreen climate post
To be clear: I am not criticizing David Roberts at all in my post, just building on his point.
Ah!! That is an excellent question. I have a whole book that tries to answer it, at least in part ☺️
TL/DR : ideas become “common sense” when they resonate with the dominant economic ideology and echo across supposedly partisan divides in research, political campaigning, advertising, media, etc
*lead to! argh where’s my edit button
I know it sounds bananas and stupid, but … *look at the regime*.
Do you think they wouldn’t try to do something like this?
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Trump is apparently trying to set up a situation where the US controls all the world’s major oil reserves.
That’s why they’re saying the Iran war will end to “energy independence.”
And that’s why Trump keeps referring to Canada as “the 51st state,” by the way.
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If we made the green energy transition this war would be unthinkable and these authoritarians wouldn’t be in power — not in the US, not in Iran, not in Saudi Arabia, not in Russia. Hydrocarbons are killing our freedom and just plain killing us.
For anyone who doesn't vote because they think they're vote won't count, this one's for you.
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*2 years in prison for throwing soup on the PROTECTIVE GLASS COVERING a painting
The world has gone mad.
companies have long hijacked the names of real or dead people to create fake support for unpopular policy during public regulatory comment periods, something made exponentially worse by AI
Not saying we’re not in a pathocracy — we absolutely are! — I’m just saying that, from my POV, any business or governance that furthers the development of fossil fuels, no matter how “reasonable” the individual at the helm, requires pathological levels of disavowal at this moment in human history.
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I smell criminal prosecution for identity theft and a class action lawsuit:
totally
exactly!! exactly this.
Yes ignorance, yes disinformation, yes genuine belief in the transcendant power of technology (and we can debate whether belief in anything transcendant is rational or not). But at its core, supporting the fossil-fuel economy is pathological — I will die on this hill.
Not saying we’re not in a pathocracy — we absolutely are! — I’m just saying that, from my POV, any business or governance that furthers the development of fossil fuels, no matter how “reasonable” the individual at the helm, requires pathological levels of disavowal at this moment in human history.
What strikes me about this political era is how our public institutions — academic, legal, corporate, media — are normalizing the Trump regime — and how easy it is for them to do so, since the regime is just the inevitable, maximalist version of governance in the longtime fossil-fuel economy.
“The oil and gas industry’s financial strategy has been ‘pray for war,’ because those are the conditions under which they make money,” said one an oil industry financial analyst. “They have to have a big price spike every few years literally to make ends meet.”
www.nytimes.com/2026/03/14/b...
I didn’t say anything about putting carbon into the air.
My point is that the global economy is inextricably coupled to geography — which is to say, nature.
🚨 A new frontier of coordinated disinformation.
Fossil fuel industry front groups are using AI platforms to flood clean air regulators with fake public comments—submitted under real residents' names, without their consent.
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www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/arti...
What's happening to the global economy because the Strait of Hormuz is closed provides all the proof you need that there is no "decoupling" the economy from the material conditions of the planet. We're embedded in the environment, folks. There is no economy without nature.
This scheme will be profitable only if everyone becomes so dumb that Chat-GPT, that error-prone suck-up, actually becomes the better option.
And that’s what the push for AI in schools is about: making sure people no longer know anything, least of all how to think.
🚨ringing alarms🚨
Hochul’s coming full force to gut NY’s climate law in the budget, due April 1. If she wins, utility bills will increase even more 🤬
It’s REPUBLICAN stuff. If she succeeds it’d be a disaster: higher bills, more pollution.
NYers: Call your legislators to stop her! 411 below ⬇️
Guess where the commonly repeated stat that it takes 7-8 years to open a mine comes from? The mining industry! Hearing from former admin folks, the actual time is much shorter but the mining industry pushes the longer time line to call for permitting reform. Just a reminder who benefits from it
If it's sometimes hard to tell the difference between fossil-fuel lobbyists and the billionaire press, that's because there isn’t one.
My column on the politicians, journalists and junktanks using the Iran crisis as an excuse to extract our remaining gas and oil.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
