THE SENATE IS VOTING ON THE BOUNDARY WATERS RIGHT NOW!
Tonight, while most people are watching TV or putting their kids to bed, the U.S. Senate is taking a vote that could permanently end protections for one of the most beloved wilderness areas in America.
I'm excited to announce this new paper we have in Nature Climate Change, establishing the core principles of a post-growth climate mitigation scenario that can achieve rapid decarbonization and high well-being. nature.com/articles/s41...
I want to comment on a really ugly thing the FS Office of the Chief did today.
Around 3:20 PM eastern; a snap e-mail announced our Forest Service reorganization.
A snap meeting from 3:45 to 4 was presented— Chief’s first ever All Employee call.
A link detailed certain USFS facilities to close.
Researcher Kyle Manley makes the case for leaving public lands as-is and how we can put a dollar value on ecological impact.
In case you missed it, this livestream discussion the astonishing and record-shattering Western U.S. heatwave and its "long tail" implications for snowpack, water supply, and wildfire risk was recorded live and is now available at the link below.
Big news: we just launched the Threatened Public Lands Tracker. It’s the most detailed interactive tool we’ve ever built showing exactly where our public lands are under threat, who’s behind it, and what’s being done.
morethanjustparks.com/threatened-p...
#nationalparks #publiclands
“Why is it that these apparently liberal democracies in the West are such incredibly violent warmongers?”
In 1953, Iran’s democratically-elected leader Mohammad Mosaddegh was deposed in a CIA coup.
Narges Bajoghli, a professor of Middle Eastern studies, explains how the coup shaped Iran’s current political landscape.
Congress is abusing the CRA to overturn public-land management plans that take years of tribal, public, scientific, and manager input, erased in days by a few political votes, and blocking any similar plans in the future. A completely anti-democratic takeover of public-land governance by congress.
This is an overview of the cost benefits of public lands eligible for sale.
Environmental scientist Kyle Manley analyzed the costs and benefits of public land sell-offs. Altogether the ecosystems on these lands generate roughly $507.4 billion in benefits to the public every year. spklr.io/6009EDJl5
📊: Kyle Manley and Jen Christiansen
Public lands are more than resources or real estate. They hold clean water, cultural memory, biodiversity, and the quiet foundations of our collective well-being. I wrote a piece in @sciam.bsky.social reflecting on what’s at risk when we treat shared landscapes as disposable.
Seeing Zohran instantly getting a bunch of shit done in like a week makes you realize that politicians could always do that on some level if they wanted it bad enough and very few of them actually do.
Labeling this as “dangerous” because of the precedent it sets for others, while ignoring the fact that the U.S. has engaged in this exact behavior toward sovereign nations for decades, reflects a deeply ingrained and racist form of American exceptionalist brain damage that is far too widespread.
A study by the Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research has estimated that in the first two years of the war in Gaza, between 99,997 en 125,915 Palestinians have been killed, with 27% of the dead aged under 15
www.bnr.nl/nieuws/inter...
"Health losses attributed to anthropogenic climate change," a brief communication in the journal Nature Climate Change. There's a map showing regions of the world, and pie charts of relevant studies as they apply to different health impacts like "heat-related deaths" and "maternal and child health"
🚨 NEW: Climate change is already causing 30,000 deaths per year - a global annual economic loss of $100-350B USD - but the true damage is probably 10x higher. Out TODAY in Nature Climate Change: the first systematic look at the science of "health impact attribution" 🔓 www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Rotating spoiler of the Dem party, it has always been a built in feature so they don’t have to govern. Also the filibuster was at stake, and if the conservatives accidentally did a good thing and abolished it, Dems would have their best excuse for not governing gone… fully captured by corporations.
The average SNAP benefit per month is $177 a person.
The average ACA benefit per month is up to $550 a person.
People want us to hold the line for a reason. This is not a matter of appealing to a base. It’s about people’s lives.
And working people want leaders whose word means something to them.
Yes, this is correct. And the reason is because our capitalist classes have decided that it is not sufficiently profitable, so they're not going to do it.
We must understand this reality. Capital *cannot* be relied upon to address the climate crisis.
My major takeaway: Measure what matters. When we split people from ecosystems, people and communities pay. GDP misses the benefits nature provides. Integrate non-market values into adaptation & conservation so we invest in both people and nature. #SocialEcologicalSystems
🎉 New in PLOS Climate: my final dissertation chapter. Using citizen-science data + travel-cost + ML, we track non-urban recreation in South Africa and its non-market value under current and future conditions. Key: climate drives change and non-market values largely decrease: tinyurl.com/az756mew
We’d be in a much stronger position right now if mainstream Democrats had taken a common sense stand for First Amendment principles instead of piling on undergraduate standing up for Palestine.
A realllllly good TikTok explainer by historian Tad Stoermer on why the Gavin Newsoms and Ezra Kleins of the world are embracing Charlie Kirk’s project.
www.tiktok.com/t/ZP8SDQSKD/
i’m not going to be lectured about political violence by people whose politics is violence
"We weren’t put here, in this place, in this time, just to lament about what could’ve been. We are here to take an active role in changing it. The future is not fixed, all is not lost."
Fun time writing for @theconversation.com ! Please share! Controlled burns reduce wildfire risk, but they require trained staff and funding − this could be a rough year theconversation.com/controlled-b...
Image of a person wearing a helmet, a harness, and other safety gear smiles next to an instrument on an elevated platform. In the bottom left corner there is a blue box with the CIRES logo and white text: Humans of CIRES. Kyle Manley. CIRES postdoctoral visiting fellow working in Earth Lab, CU Boulder.
For this week's #HumansOfCIRES, meet Kyle Manley @ktmanley.bsky.social, a CIRES visiting fellow @earthlabcu.bsky.social. Kyle studies wildfire impacts and risk, he grew up south of Denver, and his favorite book is “The Nutmeg’s Curse: Parables for a Planet in Crisis."
Read more: buff.ly/dPmkyoP
A tricky thing about modern society is that no one has any idea when they don’t die.
Like, the number of lives saved by controlling air pollution in America is probably over 200,000 per year, but the number of people who think their life was saved by controlling air pollution is zero.
Endlessly conceding to the right until we are in full blown fascism... shout out to the dems, one of the least competent and most cowardly opposition parties in history!!
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