Long, but important. I have also argued that we need a moral and legal framework that recognizes the rights of other species and of generations to come, that what we are doing to the planet is a form of looting from all who share this planet and all will follow.
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"In a dangerous world, it’s infinitely safer to rely on the sun and the wind than to depend on fossil fuels that must be transported long distances, from nations that are untrustworthy, often exploitative and located in regions that often devolve into war zones." open.substack.com/pub/paulkrug...
My letter on the @financialtimes.com story on BP/Shell’s climate rollbacks is now published.
The key takeaway: most investors should recognize that the interests of major polluters are often at odds with their own long-term portfolio interests—and should act accordingly.
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Leavitt has an audience of one.
Sierra Club filed the lawsuit that became Massachusetts vs EPA and led to the endangerment finding. Making climate science denial official US policy is a crime against humanity.
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"For the last time, I didn't know anything about Jeffrey Epstein's pedophilia ring, we were just best friends for over a decade and then finally had a falling out when he stole this seventeen-year-old blonde girl from me. I trust that settles it."
Corporate polluter CEO in a Reagan-era "Doonesbury" strip: "So what will protect the public? Oh -- here it is! The goodness of our hearts."
E.P.A. Says It Will Eliminate Its Scientific Research Arm www.nytimes.com/2025/07/18/c...
"What we have here is a form of looting." Nobel economist George Akerlof on 2003 tax cuts.
Same was true of Bush 43
I can confidently say two things. This is sick, and it will work, if "work" means not spending money on people who will suffer and needlessly die because you didn't.
How the G.O.P. Bill Saves Money: Paperwork, Paperwork, Paperwork www.nytimes.com/2025/06/29/u...
Cartoon
A Piping Plover chick tries to squeeze in. Moms are so patient and amazing.
And courts go to statutory arguments first.
Not an expert, but I believe that Harvard also has statutory arguments regarding political missue of the IRS.
I was living with my grandmother in a rural Ohio viillage an hour from Kent. One thing I remember is how many good, decent adults there believed that the Guard had been in danger, that protestors were throwing rocks and tear gas cannisters at them. When in fact, those killed were 300 feet away.
Woman kneeling next to a dead Kent State student. A child with napalm-burned flesh running towards a camera. A prisoner executed by a South Vietnames general in a Saigon street. 3 of the definining images of the Vietnam era -- as Susan Sontag wrote, photography changed how we think.
Trump wants to grant permits for deep sea mining in international waters, which, of course, don't belong to the U.S.
Not content simply to subvert U.S. environmental rules, Trump now wants to subvert international rules as well and, by fiat, open the oceans to deep sea mining. www.reuters.com/markets/comm...
“We now expect a 3°C world,” Morgan Stanley analysts wrote earlier this month. They predicted this would be good for air conditioning stocks. Something it would not be good for? Life on Earth. www.eenews.net/articles/big...
Stating the obvious: these people have no idea what a 3C degrees world means.
The E.P.A. is planning to rescind a set of Biden-era rules aimed at curbing CO2 emissions. Undoing regulations of any sort is an arduous and time-consuming process. But the agency could squander years on the endeavor.
BREAKING: @campaignlegal.org @ucsusa.bsky.social @jacl-national.bsky.social & Sierra Club have filed a lawsuit challenging Elon Musk and DOGE's unlawful & devastating funding & staffing cuts to the U.S. National Park Service & Forest Service www.sierraclub.org/press-releas...
The Sweet Spot www.nytimes.com/2003/10/17/o...
'''What we have here is a form of looting.' So says George Akerlof, a Nobel laureate in economics, of the Bush administration's budget policies -- and he's right." -- Paul Krugman, 2003.
22 years later, it's more dangerous than ever.
Nixon tried to impound appropriated funds, leading to Congress passing the Impoundment Act in response. It's a clear violation of Congress's appropriations powers.
