I am very happy to announce that "The Language of Climate Politics" has been shortlisted for the @upennlib Book Prize in Sustainability.
I'm honored to be in the company of @AkshatRathi, Rob Jackson, and @edwardhumes!
#ClimateChange
The amount of freshwater on earth is seriously declining, reports the World Meteorological Organisation. Last year rivers carried 36% less water than usual and glaciers lost 400 gigatons of ice. Reserves of groundwater are also shrinking in most places
https://t.co/vOuAR1xw31
everybody read this beautiful @dgelles@NYTmag story about the people devastated by #ClimateChange who have become friends and allies through the Extreme Weather Survivors Network
the piece was published on 9/11 and got buried, but it's worth your time!
https://t.co/iFWM35I0NZ
Rome, Italy.
People are in denial about climate change. There’s loads of comments online about drains and maintenance when in fact rainfall intensity is increasing across the planet as the atmosphere heats, exactly as scientists told us it would.
It’s going to get much worse.
🚨NEWS: Corporate Dems’ new oligarch-funded think tank led by Fetterman’s former aide @AJentleson has been shilling for the AI industry — while its board member & megadonor’s financial fortunes have been invested in the AI buildout, according to documents reviewed by @LeverNews.
Join me 9/26 at the @AMNH for the BIPOC Climate Justice Summit, where I'll be on the panel "Truth Is a Climate Issue: Defending Science, Information, and Democracy."
https://t.co/69iHrjwZBR
Or, if you can't make that, come say hi at one of the NYC Climate Week events below!
A mixed @EndClimtSilence newsletter this time! I list where I'll be over NYC Climate Week but also meditate on MLK's confession: "Some of us who have already begun to break the silence of the night have found that the calling to speak is often a vocation of agony."
*link below*
It's pretty impressive how much ground Mayor Mamdani has been able to cover after only nine months in office on a wide range of basic quality-of-life issues in NYC:
-- 229,000 pothole repairs (up 27% from last year)
-- speedbump installations up 25%
-- tree planting up 61% (55,000 total)
-- bus lanes installation more than doubled (5.5 miles to 12 miles)
-- residential curbside collection met its annual target for the first time in 21 years (with three months to spare)
-- affordable housing completions up 20%
-- financed 2,546 supportive housing units and 4,742 affordable homes for formerly homeless New Yorkers, the most in a fiscal year in NYC history
-- job placements through the city's human resources agency are up 33%
-- youth job placements through city admin up 26%
-- wait times for primary care appointments down 31% for adults and 24% for children
-- families receiving child welfare services up 16%
-- rec center membership up 13% (total membership highest in 15 years)
-- young adult attendance at rec centers up 50%
-- murder rate is down 20%
-- burglaries down 9%, robberies down 9%, auto thefts down 7%
All in fewer than nine months. Extraordinary.
Read the full stats here: https://t.co/0hWZeeaavq
Sorry but I just can’t get over how bonkers it is that we have two really good ways to generate and store your own electricity wherever you are (solar and wind), but we keep choosing to instead ship fuel across the world in elaborate, fragile supply lines
Perspectives on Politics, the journal of the American Political Science Assoc, staged a "Critical Dialogue" between Hanna Morris' Apocalyptic Authoritarianism and my recent book, The Language of Climate Politics.
The dialogue was, shall we say, spirited.
Link in next tweet.