Which Stephen King book is that from
This line from the @amywestervelt.bsky.social 's excellent newsletter is so so relevant rn: how small the climate movement has become, how homogeneous its leadership, and how much it is coalescing around the ideas that have dominated it for decades and...sorry to break it to you, have not worked.
When the stakes are highâa U.S. descent into fascism, genocide in Gaza, the scepter of World War III, extreme storms and fires, and a tight window closing on our ability to avoid more and worse of the...
Itâs just fascism. Ecology is a distinct ontology that they will never share.
Itâs not like my respect for authority was already strong but watching our political leaders *murder with impunity* while preaching freedom for decades â losing even that thin pretence in this last year â has me becoming an anarchist. Not a change Iâm happy about but I donât trust any of them now đ«€
Over a year of genocide and the evil-doers keep being given US tax dollars, bombs, support. Bombing tents, burning children alive, shooting babies through the head & making TikTok videos laughing about it - one whole year! This is the most immoral army in the world. The Westâs hypocrisy is unbounded
Besieged and bombarded by invading Israeli military, Palestinians in Gaza's Jabalia city are posting videos and images on social media, pleading the world they are living their "final moments".
Quel surprise
Countries getting nowhere at the climate âpre-COPâ
It all sounds tediously familiar so the post will be short. The usual wrangles drag on without much, if any, result as wealthier countries naturally defend their own interests instead of bowing to âŠ
There are a few issues here. FEMA maps are based on historical data & do not include projections (that would allow you to estimate today's risk). Since this inevitably increases the hazard zones, it has been politically⊠umm⊠delicate. However, different methods will yield different extensions.
A Washington Post analysis shows how federal flood maps underestimated the risk homeowners faced in the parts of North Carolina devastated by Hurricane Helene.
A Washington Post analysis shows how federal flood maps underestimated the risk homeowners faced in the parts of North Carolina devastated by Hurricane Helene.
This is a remarkable piece of opinion reporting, a *deeply* disturbing look at the details of the US's virtually undiscussed descent into a vast new nuclear arms race. Spending trillions of dollars, basically unchecked, just to increase the odds of ending the world. [đ]This is a remarkable piece of opinion reporting, a *deeply* disturbing look at the details of the US's virtually undiscussed descent into a vast new nuclear arms race. Spending trillions of dollars, basically unchecked, just to increase the odds of ending the world. [đ]
The $1.7 trillion overhaul is already underway.
Norm scholars who fret over backsliding shouldnât expect a serious hearing if they canât muster outrage now, and if they donât make Israelâs conduct a mainstay case study in the bonfire of âinternational societyâ.
For defenders of ârules-based orderâ who tolerated smears against UN offices and the Secretary-General, who implemented funding freezes on the flimsiest excuse, and who stayed quiet while embassies and refugee camps were targeted: what is to be done now that Netanyahu has come for peacekeepers?
Surely R2P is dead because it is dead empirically; the international society of states failed to protest let alone prevent genocide. Either we need new ontological starting points-buhbye IR-or a serious, Arendt level study of why states failed.