Trump is reported close to a "deal" with himself under which US taxpayers would pay him $10 billion.
I served in multiple communist and authoritarian dictatorships, but I never witnessed corruption on this scale or this blatant.
@alexsteffen.bsky.social will tell you that “not everywhere can be saved”. Lytton is probably Canada’s best example. We’ll try for a while but the cost of insurance will probably be prohibitive. Need to think holistically about what happens to the next one.
www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/artic...
A group of nations is working to slow down the IPCC reporting process, for some mysterious reason...
www.carbonbrief.org/ipcc-frustra...
Friendly reminder: Republicans continue to block our efforts to lower healthcare costs.
Today is the last day to sign up for the Personal Climate Strategy Workshop!
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Most people: We'd like less light pollution, and more starry nights.
The Valley: Cool... How about giant unregulated space mirrors reflecting the Sun onto your community, turning night into day whenever we can make a buck off it?
www.nytimes.com/2026/03/09/c...
“This wave isn’t going away. It’s going to keep building, because the climate crisis is now the context for every important decision we make — where to live, what to invest in, which career bets to place, when to move, what to hold onto and what to let go.”
alexsteffen.substack.com/p/the-coming...
This piece is kicking up some dust.
More and more upwardly mobile people who've trusted suburban homeownership and rising incomes to secure their future are now finding their lives getting brittle as the climate crisis worsens.
alexsteffen.substack.com/p/resilient-...
“This wave isn’t going away. It’s going to keep building, because the climate crisis is now the context for every important decision we make — where to live, what to invest in, which career bets to place, when to move, what to hold onto and what to let go.”
alexsteffen.substack.com/p/the-coming...
Been thinking about this and suspect we're in for a big resurgence in more systems and sensemaking speculative SF...
What if the chaos isn’t going away?
What if all this isn’t just a rough patch?
What if this is the world we have to learn to live in, now?
alexsteffen.substack.com/p/the-patter...
There not being a normal is the new normal.
Thank you. Nothing could be more important.
What if the chaos isn’t going away?
What if all this isn’t just a rough patch?
What if this is the world we have to learn to live in, now?
alexsteffen.substack.com/p/the-patter...
There not being a normal is the new normal.
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The next Personal Climate Strategy Workshop begins 4/14/26.
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"Alex Steffen will change the way you think about planning for your future.” — Britt Wray
"One of the most impactful learning experiences I’ve had on any topic in the last decade" — Tiago Forte
The next Personal Climate Strategy Workshop begins 4/14/26.
alexsteffen.substack.com/p/theres-not...
Wow! This essay is becoming one of the more popular things I've written since I started my newsletter.
It's about the danger of having done well enough to feel we're safe from the climate crisis, when in fact our prosperity is built on risk and brittleness.
alexsteffen.substack.com/p/resilient-...
Not.
Earth and Moon from DSCOVR NASA's Earth Polychromatic Imaging Camera (EPIC) aboard the Deep Space Climate Observatory (DSCOVR) satellite captured this unique view of the Moon as it moved in front of the sunlit side of Earth last month. This view shows the fully illuminated “dark side” of the moon that is never visible from Earth. Ian Regan processed this version of the image to account for the Moon's motion. NASA / NOAA / Ian Regan
I hadn't seen this before. This is pretty remarkable.
Earth and Moon in one NASA photo.
ht @astrokatie.com
Wow! This essay is becoming one of the more popular things I've written since I started my newsletter.
It's about the danger of having done well enough to feel we're safe from the climate crisis, when in fact our prosperity is built on risk and brittleness.
alexsteffen.substack.com/p/resilient-...
Hoo-boy. This is going to be an interesting summer.
"This essay is about a different kind of danger — the danger not of having nothing, but of having enough to feel safe while being deeply exposed."
New:
Why being relatively well-off doesn't necessarily make you safe from the economic brittleness of the climate chaos — but it does make the risk you face harder to see.
alexsteffen.substack.com/p/resilient-...
Yes.
But it's not ignorance, or magical thinking, or ideological blinders. Not primarily.
It's predatory delay.
It's the intentional sabotage of science and policy to make climate action harder and thereby prolong the profits of oil, gas and other high-carbon and unsustainable industries.
"This essay is about a different kind of danger — the danger not of having nothing, but of having enough to feel safe while being deeply exposed."
New:
Why being relatively well-off doesn't necessarily make you safe from the economic brittleness of the climate chaos — but it does make the risk you face harder to see.
alexsteffen.substack.com/p/resilient-...
"The decisions they’re being forced to face — where to live, what to invest in, when to move — are the highest-stakes decisions of their lives, being made in the midst of some of the largest climate and ecological upheavals in human history."
These assholes are going to try to destroy every effort we have going to stop climate change.
All is not lost, but things are likely going to get much worse before they just become a massive, all-encompassing discontinuity we are forced to learn to try to manage.
heatmap.news/politics/win...
Part of that power grab is building business models to try to profit off of climate chaos, and trying to buy up all the assets growing scarcer and more valuable in a discontinuity (arable land, fresh water, rare minerals, safer real estate, etc)
www.motherjones.com/environment/...