![Montana Kids Just Won Their Landmark Climate Lawsuit. Here’s Why.](/content/images/size/w750/2023/08/YouthVGov.jpg)
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Jan
20
![Newsletter: On MLK Day 2025, It’s Never Been More Important for Nice White Liberals to Step Up](/content/images/size/w750/2025/01/PeoplesMarch2025.jpg)
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](/content/images/size/w750/2024/12/MemeWord.jpg)
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](/content/images/size/w750/2024/12/ThisIsFine.jpg)
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](/content/images/size/w750/2024/10/JustStopOil.jpg)
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](/content/images/size/w750/2024/10/Devastation_in_Asheville_after_Hurricane_Helene-1-.jpg)
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](/content/images/size/w750/2024/09/AdobeStock_263693827.jpeg)
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?](/content/images/size/w750/2024/09/KamalaHarris_CNN.jpg)
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](/content/images/size/w750/2024/07/Screenshot-2024-07-22-at-9.06.36-PM.png)
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
Jun
28
![On Doom, Denial and Disinfo](/content/images/size/w750/2024/06/CLU29647-1200x1200.jpg)
On Doom, Denial and Disinfo
I spent this week at the Hollywood Climate Summit, talking to people about the role the PR industry has played
4 min read