As John Holdren once said about climate change, âWe basically have three choices: mitigation, adaptation and suffering. Weâre going to do some of each. The question is what the mix is going to be. The more mitigation we do, the less adaptation will be required and the less suffering there will be.â
I see faking climate action as roughly on par with the people who create and sell fake medicines to people in desperate situations. There has been a long, long period of Fuck Around. Kenneth here is hopefully not going to be the last person to Find Out.
Kenneth Newcombe, formerly CEO of C-Quest Capital, indicted over allegations of carbon credit manipulation
Israeli strikes kill 492 in heaviest daily toll in Lebanon since 1975-90 civil war Itâs awful that Israelâs âescape forwardâ strategy, at the cost of thousands of lives, faces no meaningful international censure. đąđ§đľđ¸
And if this whet your whistle, and you're in Canberra this Thursday, come along to this event hosted by The Australia Institute. Trouble starts from 6.30pm. nb.australiainstitute.org.au/politics_in_...
My write up of former NZ PM Jacinda Ardernâs keynote speech to the #ClimateWeekNYCwww.tempestsandterawatts.com/p/climate-ac...
Former NZ prime minister Jacinda Ardern to urges world leaders to ensure commitments to tackle the worsening climate crisis transcend a volatile geopolitical environment.
I challenge you to find a regular columnist in a major English-language newspaper willing to ask the questions that Martin Wolf asks here: Market forces are not enough to halt climate change - on.ft.com/3VMJd5l via @FT
Investor returns imply that the welfare of future human beings is close to irrelevant
Having a partisan hack define what constitutes good journalism is no different than having a partisan hack tell scientists what the science on climate change or vaccines should be. This is how politicization undermines the core mission of the public organizations. open.substack.com/pub/donmoyni...
Michael Pack, an ally of Steve Bannon, was appointed late in the Trump admin to run AGM. He promised to to "drain the swamp, to root out corruption, and to deal with these issues of bias." He was driven by the MAGA assumption that journalists were unfair to Trump. Here is a sample of what he did:
New, from me: A new book reveals how Trump's effort to politicize Voice of America offers a preview of what an authoritarian American state media would look like if he returns to office. donmoynihan.substack.com/p/capturing-...
The weaponization of Voice of America is a preview of a second Trump term