Daniel Aldana Cohen

Assistant Professor of Sociology @UCBerkeley. Director @SC2_Collab. Founding Co-Director @cplusci. A Planet to Win (Verso). he/him

[Daniel Aldana Cohen @aldatweets]

We can't make climate progress w the same old playbook. We need a green economic populism that brings immediate, material benefits to the working class—tackling both carbon and the cost-of-living crisis. We can start local rn.

Thrilled to share my NYT op-ed w @triofrancos!

[David Madden @davidjmadden]

Schools closed, children idly doing hastily assembled online busy work, events cancelled at short notice, ominous calm--the heat wave feels like Hot Covid

[David Madden @davidjmadden]

The economic problem with NYC's rental housing is, for the most part, not the high cost of operating buildings--it's the high cost of landlords' debts. Great discussion here by JW Mason.

[Benjamin Kunkel @kunktation]

Don't worry, the link between GDP per capita and larger material footprints has been decoupled in a growing roster of countries

[Johan Rockström @jrockstrom]

This is so telling. So scary. So concerning. The predictions for 2050, made in 2014, on extreme heat in France, are vastly exceeded, already in 2026. Why? We have underestimated the rate of change. Warming is accelerating. Ocean heat is off the charts. Is Earth losing Resilience?

[Benjamin Kunkel @kunktation]

This breezy would-be authoritative dismissal of the ecological problem of economic growth is maddening. *Per capita* ecological impacts aren't the issue, or biophysical throughput per unit of GDP. The issue is *absolute* impacts or throughput, at the world scale still increasing

[Molly Crabapple🇵🇷 @mollycrabapple]

The politicians whining that DSA voters are "transplants" are the same ones that took real estate cash to greenlight the gentrification of their own communities.

These politicians helped displace their own base, then have the gall to complain when new people vote them out

[Eric Blanc @_ericblanc]

Some thoughts on the WFP/nonprofit vs DSA debate:

1) None of our orgs have a very deep *organized* base in the multiracial working class. Appeals to identity representation =/= widespread on-the-ground power in workplaces and neighborhoods. But neither does receiving a large number of votes

After five decades of neoliberal atomization, union busting, and fraying social fabric, our common organizational weakness shouldn't be a big surprise. Structural obstacles like these are not easily or quickly overcome

[Dr. Genevieve Guenther (she/they) 🪬 @DoctorVive]

This is a wild story, by @themadstone, about the deep corruption at the center of climate research at @Princeton.

TL/DR: BP helped write a research paper they funded, envisioning an essentially fictional future for fossil fuels in a decarbonized world.

Link in next tweet.

[Daniel Aldana Cohen @aldatweets]

@ear2thepavement Eager to hear how that goes!

[Daniel Aldana Cohen @aldatweets]

I finally read Moby Dick this year. Such a fun book! And now when I describe things as my “white whale” I really feel it.

[Ence Morse @ccemorse]

The voters who just elected democratic socialists in New York tended to be young and college-educated.

They were also racially diverse: one DSA candidate won predominantly Hispanic precincts by *35* points. Our deep dive w/@teoarmus here:

https://t.co/GPrmA8307L

[Daniel Aldana Cohen @aldatweets]

Lomborg: World-historical levels of whataboutism for decades

[Bjorn Lomborg @BjornLomborg]

While the media focuses on Europe’s heatwave:

Remember, cold kills far more Europeans than heat

Extreme heat is the smallest temperature-related killer

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PS. Both cold and heat can be deadly. Make sure you protect you and your loved ones with adequate heating in winter and cooling and liquids in summer

[Daniel Aldana Cohen @aldatweets]

@dmtrubman Valdez came up through left-reformist UAW in this way—in contact with, but not via, grad labor.

[Daniel Aldana Cohen @aldatweets]

Except for UAW bb.

[Daniel Trubman @dmtrubman]

Kind of shocked more people aren't talking about how badly the institutional labor machine got beaten last night in NYC.

The big unions backed the establishment in race after race. Most of them lost. Another hollowed-out political institution?

[Daniel Aldana Cohen @aldatweets]

@dmtrubman Arguably, the big difference is that politically, nyc’s uaw rank and file is broadly aligned w the left-reformist project of Fain, which isn’t really the case for most other big nyc unions.

[Common Wealth @Cmmonwealth]

🚨The fracking boom has transformed the US onshore oil and gas industry — but not in the way proponents promised.

Our new briefing explores these shifting frontiers of fossil capital.

🖊️ @arne__ness

https://t.co/rR0bJdqnZ7

[Malcolm Harris @BigMeanInternet]

Seems clear that "progressive but anti-socialist" is a no man's land. Which is probably a problem for a lot of people with jobs...

[Yashica Dutt @YashicaDutt]

As DSA deservingly gets their flowers for last night, we must also recognize the incredible organizing of DRUM Beats @DesisRisingUp — endorsed Mamdani on Day 1 & successfully backed 8 candidates, including @david4queens who won against a desi candidate in a desi majority district

[Akela Lacy @akela_lacy]

The clear message from Tuesday night: the left isn’t just having a moment — it’s dictating how Democrats play the game of electoral politics.

“It is democratic socialists who are defining much of the political terrain in New York,” @unionGustavo told me. https://t.co/0ePHBSrBZs