Dr. Scott Carlin

Human Geographer: Earth Democracy in the Anthropocene.

[UN-Habitat @UNHABITAT]

The most successful housing strategies don't focus on building homes alone.

They look at the entire ecosystem and create the right conditions for housing to be delivered at scale.

[Mike Levin @MikeLevin]

Ken Burns, my favorite documentary filmmaker, has spent 50 years telling the American story, including of the Revolution itself. Nobody alive has looked harder at who we are and how we got here.

So when he warns us, we should listen.

Burns said the founders would not be surprised by a president’s reach for authoritarian power. But what would leave them completely disappointed is how poorly Republicans in Congress have responded.

Article I, the branch the founders built first and strongest to be the bulwark against exactly this, has abdicated its power and handed it to the executive.

The executive was supposed to carry out the will of the people’s representatives, not rule over them. Right now a Republican majority is choosing to surrender that authority to Donald Trump rather than do the job the Constitution gave them. 

I took an oath to the Constitution, not to a party or a a president.

The whole point of this new thing the founders created in 1776, was that we do not suffer under authoritarian rule quietly.

We must keep fighting to make Congress do its job.
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[David Wallace-Wells @dwallacewells]

“Big oil understood decades ago that the unchecked burning of fossil fuels would, in the words of their own senior employees’ internal communications, be ‘globally catastrophic,’ do ‘great irreversible harm to our planet,’…” https://t.co/mXJsgw87uF

[UN Environment Programme @UNEP]

Old phones, fridges or laptops don’t just disappear when tossed.

The world generates 62 million tonnes of e-waste each year, enough to fill 1.5 million trucks.

New regulations, circular design and better recycling can help stop the toxic tide and #BeatWastePollution: https://t.co/yDTYrw60DW

[Antidepressant Content @depressionlesss]

These incredible wind-powered sculptures, known as “Beach Animals,” were designed by Theo Jansen, blending engineering with art. They can walk across the sand using nothing but the power of the wind.

[Massimo @Rainmaker1973]

Africa is building a wall... Made of trees.

8,000 km of green defiance stretching from Senegal to Djibouti: it’s called the Great Green Wall - a plan to stop the Sahara desert, restore dead land, and lift 100 million people.

[🎞️ africabusinessheroes]

[Maude Barlow @MaudeBarlow]

Listen up. Naomi nails it.

[George Tsakraklides @99blackbaloons]

“This absurd  civilization has become nothing but a cult of self-destruction. It is made up of people forced to do jobs they don’t like, told to buy things they don’t need, emit carbon from forests they never saw, and genocide people whom they’ve never met”

From my book THE BIOLOGY OF COLLAPSE

[UN Environment Programme @UNEP]

As a whole, humans throw away more than 1 billion tonnes of food every year. This is a tremendous waste of resources and a major driver of climate change.

But there is plenty that can be done to ensure that food ends up nourishing rather than polluting.

Seven ways to cut food waste: https://t.co/gm9mnUImog

[Democracy Now! @democracynow]

The Supreme Court has granted the president the power to fire and replace officials at independent government agencies like the FTC.

But in a separate decision, the justices ruled that Federal Reserve Governor Lisa Cook can stay in her job as she challenges Trump's efforts to fire her.

The seemingly contradictory rulings suggest a two-tier system of regulation, says Alvaro Bedoya, a former FTC commissioner who was fired by Trump last year.

The Federal Reserve is "the regulator that's most important to those central bankers, most important to those billionaire Wall Street bankers," explains @BedoyaUSA.

[Blue Muse @Mystics_Blues]

“Before heading to the beach, health experts urge people to check their skin for cuts and keep wounds covered. Other tips for avoiding Vibrio infection include thoroughly cooking shellfish and never ignoring an infection that appears to be worsening rapidly.”

[Keith Siau @drkeithsiau]

Vibrio vulnificus is the reason why we advise immunosuppressed patients not to eat raw oysters 🦪🦠

(Via @JAMA_current)

[Danny Usher @dsurte66]

@rrothWA @OccupyDemocrats Vibrio vulnificus becoming necrotizing fasciitis or 'flesh eating manifestations' thus describing how Trump's MAGA continues to manifests itself within America. https://t.co/hEPAnUSiCH

[The New Yorker @NewYorker]

It was once unusual for Vibrio vulnificus, popularly known as flesh-eating bacteria, to strike north of Georgia. Lately, however, the bacteria have killed people as far north as New York and Rhode Island. “What has happened is that the environment has changed,” Rita Colwell, a 91-year-old biologist at the University of Maryland, told Shayla Love. It’s not that the bacteria are migrating, she said. Low levels are always present where fresh and salty water mix. But, when water warms beyond 50 degrees Fahrenheit, V. vulnificus becomes more common, and above 77 degrees its population soars. Nowadays, about a dozen cases are confirmed in Maryland each year; the number increased by more than 50 per cent in the span of 14 years. A 2023 study found that the season in which the bacteria are detectable now starts in early spring and extends into the fall. “This is insidious, and it’s happening to us,” Colwell said.

Love reports on how a warming planet is changing what scientists call the “unseen majority” of life—microbes—and the ripple effects that could have on everything else: https://t.co/zoxjrwAefn

[Occupy Democrats @OccupyDemocrats]

BREAKING: Vibrio vulnificus — a deadly, flesh-eating bacteria with a staggering 20% mortality rate — is now being detected in multiple U.S. waterways.

And here’s the part you’re not supposed to ignore: this comes after the Trump administration dismantled critical water monitoring systems and gutted CDC programs that were tracking this very threat.

When you defund science and silence public health experts, Americans pay the price.

[The Atlantic @TheAtlantic]

For nearly 250 years, America promoted freedom and equality abroad, even when it failed to live up to those ideals itself—not anymore. @anneapplebaum argued in The Atlantic’s “Unfinished Revolution” issue last year. https://t.co/MrTTw6jL1m

[Joe Brewer @cognitivepolicy]

Help us flow funding into the Northern Andes where we are creating the first bioregional learning center—with children at the heart of it all.

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[Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald]

The magnitude of Trump's personal corruption and the monetizing of the presidency by him and his family have no precedent in US history.

It takes a total peasant mentality, or some weird cultish devotion, to defend or excuse this, especially if you objected to corrupt Biden transactions (as I did). It's on a completely different scale.

Trump set up a crypto company (World Liberty Financial) 4 days before his inauguration, then had the UAE pour hundreds of millions into his pockets for 49% of it, then gave rewards to the UAE. Jared getting $2 billion from the Saudis. On and on and on.

[Chris Murphy 🟧 @ChrisMurphyCT]

Trump has turned the White House into a 24/7 corruption operation. This is a national crisis.

Trump thinks the public will stop paying attention.

So I went to the Senate floor to call his bluff. I told the ENTIRE STORY of his 500 days of corruption.

1/ Here it is - in one🧵