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Mar
09
It's Time to Fight for Actual Free Speech
If you are obsessed with corporate PR and its power, as I am, eventually you butt up against the question
8 min read
Jan
20
Newsletter: On MLK Day 2025, It’s Never Been More Important for Nice White Liberals to Step Up
For more than a year now we have been tracking the global trend towards the increasing criminalization of climate protest.
7 min read
Dec
17
The Overton-Window-Sized Hole in Most "Moveable Middle" Strategies
I was talking to some climate folks recently and wondered aloud about something I didn't think was particularly
6 min read
Dec
03
What's Coming: Peak Oil, Maximum LNG and Ethanol, State Violence, the CCS Boom, and a Lot More Climate Litigation
I haven't sent out a newsletter for a couple of weeks, partly because I'm working on
5 min read
Nov
08
On the Benefits of Changing One's Mind in Public
I've been thinking a lot lately about how zero-sum people tend to get about various messages in the
8 min read
Oct
14
De-fund the Tone Police
When the stakes are high—a U.S. descent into fascism, genocide in Gaza, the specter of World War III,
7 min read
Oct
08
Conspiracies Thrive in a Crisis
Last month during Climate Week in New York, Jennie King, the head of climate research and policy for the Institute
6 min read
Sep
29
On Climate Week and Toxic Positivity
Last week was New York Climate Week, which happens alongside the UN General Assembly every year, or as I overheard
6 min read
Sep
10
Why Can't We Just Tell the Truth About Fossil Fuels?
I went on a call-in radio show this weekend, the focus of which was climate in the next election. I
5 min read
Jul
22
Everything You Need to Know About Project 2025's Plan for the EPA
If you browse the Internet or watch TV you've probably heard of Project 2025, the blueprint for a
13 min read