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feralyogi.bsky.social
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Turning the White House itself into a car dealership was inevitable for a Republican administration, I guess.

Ever curious where your flowers came from? Ever wonder what it takes to get something that looks perfect. Delivered to you across thousands of kilometers? The ephemera of cut flowers comes with a cost. Human, ecological, we have instrumentalized that which represents Beauty most to us.

I'll be giving a talk at Utrecht University on the flower industry and how it has hidden costs globally. I'll be connecting the biggest flower market in the world in the Netherlands to Columbia's growing fields, critically examining these Global commodity chains.

The “Future of Energy”? Building resilience to ExxonMobil’s disinformation through disclosures and inoculation

It’s amazing how the world’s richest people, with the backing of the federal government and leaders in media, education, and business, can still position itself as a scrappy rebellion against *checks notes* the most marginalized and exploited groups in the country.

Can we just say this out loud? The muted and almost light tone of coverage of this guy breaking into an airport and managing to board a plane with a LOADED SHOTGUN would be wildly different if he wasn't white.

“Money for clean industry–related projects fell by nearly 60% last year compared with 2023 — even as investment in the broader energy transition grew to a record $2.1 trillion in 2024, per BNEF.” www.canarymedia.com/articles/cle...

Very Serious People:: The military is entirely on Trump's side, they can't wait to crush the country beneath his heel, it's going to be marital law-- The actual military:

Big tech is the new big tobacco

It won't be the politicians or the economists or the business leaders who tell it like it is. www.youtube.com/watch?v=sn9E...

The U.S. #NationalWeatherService, housed within #NOAA, is a truly world-class meteorological predictive service, perhaps singularly so. It costs only ~$3/yr per taxpayer, & yields ~10:1 return on investment--saving economy 10s-100s of billions, not to mention thousands of lives.

Once you understand the mirror world, you start to realize that many right wing conspiracists could have been directed into productive movements, if only they'd understood that their problems were with *systems*, not sinister *individuals*

An acre of land can power a car to go 13,000 miles per year using biofuel (corn ethanol), or 900,000 miles per year using solar.

That people are self-interested, isn’t a defect. It’s part of human nature. So we need to create strong guardrails and counterbalances for out-of-control looping dynamics that reinforce runaway greed stemming from fear.

Israel's destruction in Gaza greater than Berlin after WWII. More bombs were inflicted on Palestinian civilians than in all of WWII.

These douchebags are courting their own assassination. Blaming the SpaceX crash on black people and the FAA is courting their own assassination.

Rosebank offshore oil field rule unlawful, big win for UK climate activists (and the planet) www.theguardian.com/environment/...

wholesale power prices expected to rise 7%, biggest driver is higher natural gas prices www.eia.gov/todayinenerg...

If we don't stop this shit, we'll get to a point where scientists have to post this kind of sycophantic nonsense publically to get their NSF or NIH funding.

Having trouble managing the flood of messages from biologist pals chortling that Trump's anti-trans executive order legally defines every American as female, because defines people by their gender *at conception,* and all embryos are phenotypically female (they differentiate after 6-7 weeks).

Apropos of nothing at all, a demonstration of how Japan has kept fire from an extremely fire-prone thatch-roof village for more than 2 centuries--by using both ingenious infrastructure and turning fire preparedness into civic festivals that tourists pay to attend.

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The Earth is undergoing rapid unscheduled warming.

Data centre expansionism is directly driving a significant buildout of fossil gas infrastructure in America! heated.world/p/ai-is-guzz...

Scholars @feralyogi.bsky.social and Palazzo draw attention to industrial compartmentalization: the act of treating each environmental issue/tragedy/accident as its own unavoidable externality, thus "shift[ing] the attention of scientists and the public from upstream to proximal causes". bit.ly/4hazb

Fernando Palazzo and I just published our article looking at the role of 'compartmentalizing' climate change protections from extractive climate changing pollution. journals.plos.org/climate/arti...

What's your favorite example that shows how the world is actually interconnected, nuanced, and always in motion, despite the categories modern cultures make up to divide the complex whole into parts, often with goals like domination and extraction? I have so many myself...a 🧵

It’s bizarre how the US ruling class take holidays in European cities where they can enjoy nice public spaces, public transit, pedestrianised streets, mixed-use neighbourhoods, public healthcare and nice architecture, and then go home and deny these things to their citizens.