Albert Pinto
@70sbachchan.bsky.social
Alternately Defiant, Dispirited, and Despondent. Without illusions but not disillusioned. Focus on Climate, Inequality and Development.
I co-edit the Polycrisis project and newsletter https://www.phenomenalworld.org/series/the-polycrisis/
I co-edit the Polycrisis project and newsletter https://www.phenomenalworld.org/series/the-polycrisis/
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Albert Pinto
@70sbachchan.bsky.social
· Mar 20
Global Conjuncture w/ Ilias Alami and Tim Sahay
Featuring Ilias Alami and Tim Sahay on a global conjuncture defined by Washington’s shredding of the liberal international order’s legitimacy amid a panic over decline: the escalating Cold War with Ch...
thedigradio.com
Our world crisis of ecology, economics, and empire, has continued to metastasize. It is shaking confidence in established worldviews & ruling elites everywhere.
@iliasalami.bsky.social & @danieldenvir.bsky.social & I chatted about @thepolycrisis.bsky.social
thedigradio.com/podcast/glob...
@iliasalami.bsky.social & @danieldenvir.bsky.social & I chatted about @thepolycrisis.bsky.social
thedigradio.com/podcast/glob...
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holy shit I didn’t check the # but it’s so emblematic of how Not Doing Well we are that the Biden rule is characterized in this article as “significantly” reducing climate emissions while also stating it‘s equivalent to taking 165,000 cars off the road…by 2050.
THE US HAS 280,000,000 CARS
THE US HAS 280,000,000 CARS
The Trump administration is expected to announce a major weakening of automaker fuel economy standards tomorrow. The result is likely to be US automakers pulling even further back from their electrification plans, and those same automakers falling even further behind Chinese automakers on EV tech.
Trump Expected to Significantly Weaken Fuel Economy Rules
www.nytimes.com
December 3, 2025 at 3:52 AM
holy shit I didn’t check the # but it’s so emblematic of how Not Doing Well we are that the Biden rule is characterized in this article as “significantly” reducing climate emissions while also stating it‘s equivalent to taking 165,000 cars off the road…by 2050.
THE US HAS 280,000,000 CARS
THE US HAS 280,000,000 CARS
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Religion note: Remember that pastor who was arrested protesting an ICE detention facility outside Chicago recently? The one who was photographed on the ground as officers arrested him?
That's Rev. Michael Woolf, and this is his church.
That's Rev. Michael Woolf, and this is his church.
December 4, 2025 at 2:12 AM
Religion note: Remember that pastor who was arrested protesting an ICE detention facility outside Chicago recently? The one who was photographed on the ground as officers arrested him?
That's Rev. Michael Woolf, and this is his church.
That's Rev. Michael Woolf, and this is his church.
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They think they look tough. They look like losers. Imagine wearing tactical gear and a facemask in the city famous for people walking the streets all but naked and drunk
Commander Greg Bovino led a group of Border Patrol agents on walk around the French Quarter in New Orleans this afternoon.
December 4, 2025 at 2:07 AM
They think they look tough. They look like losers. Imagine wearing tactical gear and a facemask in the city famous for people walking the streets all but naked and drunk
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Prospera Honduras is a Zone for Employment & Economic Development (ZEDE) backed by Peter Thiel. Trump plans to pardon the former Honduran president who championed ZEDES b4 his drug trafficking conviction. Honduras current outgoing president has tried to eliminate ZEDES, an obstacle for Prospera.
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Prospera: Honduras' Bitcoin City Project
Prospera is Honduras' Bitcoin City project. Located on the island of Roatan in the Caribbean Sea, it faces several challenges.
colombiaone.com
November 30, 2025 at 7:27 PM
Prospera Honduras is a Zone for Employment & Economic Development (ZEDE) backed by Peter Thiel. Trump plans to pardon the former Honduran president who championed ZEDES b4 his drug trafficking conviction. Honduras current outgoing president has tried to eliminate ZEDES, an obstacle for Prospera.
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1. Cars are the biggest source of climate pollution in the country.
2. Transportation is the biggest household expense after rent/mortgage.
2. State and local gov't could cut these numbers by about 25% in five years without any federal policy.
Somebody solve this for me, what should we do? 🤷♂️🤷♂️🤷♂️🤷♂️🤷♂️
2. Transportation is the biggest household expense after rent/mortgage.
2. State and local gov't could cut these numbers by about 25% in five years without any federal policy.
Somebody solve this for me, what should we do? 🤷♂️🤷♂️🤷♂️🤷♂️🤷♂️
Trump Returns to Gasoline as Fuel of Choice for Cars, Gutting Biden’s Climate Policy
www.nytimes.com
December 3, 2025 at 10:15 PM
1. Cars are the biggest source of climate pollution in the country.
2. Transportation is the biggest household expense after rent/mortgage.
2. State and local gov't could cut these numbers by about 25% in five years without any federal policy.
Somebody solve this for me, what should we do? 🤷♂️🤷♂️🤷♂️🤷♂️🤷♂️
2. Transportation is the biggest household expense after rent/mortgage.
2. State and local gov't could cut these numbers by about 25% in five years without any federal policy.
Somebody solve this for me, what should we do? 🤷♂️🤷♂️🤷♂️🤷♂️🤷♂️
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In an effort to win this contest, China is building hegemony by exporting not just its green products but also in a structural shift exporting its technology, engineering, supply chains, and financing.
phenomenalworld.org/analysis/bri...
www.ft.com/content/e517...
phenomenalworld.org/analysis/bri...
www.ft.com/content/e517...
China is building 74% of all current solar and wind projects, report says
Beijing is dominating construction of renewable energy sources, according to Global Energy Monitor
www.ft.com
July 9, 2025 at 1:33 PM
In an effort to win this contest, China is building hegemony by exporting not just its green products but also in a structural shift exporting its technology, engineering, supply chains, and financing.
phenomenalworld.org/analysis/bri...
www.ft.com/content/e517...
phenomenalworld.org/analysis/bri...
www.ft.com/content/e517...
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Trump, continued: "What the Somalian people have done to Minnesota is not even believable. It’s not even believable. And a lot of it starts with the governor. A lot of it starts with Barack HUSSEIN Obama, because that’s when people started coming in... They want to kiss our country good night."
December 3, 2025 at 9:36 PM
Trump, continued: "What the Somalian people have done to Minnesota is not even believable. It’s not even believable. And a lot of it starts with the governor. A lot of it starts with Barack HUSSEIN Obama, because that’s when people started coming in... They want to kiss our country good night."
Plutocratic Idiocracy
December 4, 2025 at 1:29 AM
Plutocratic Idiocracy
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Introducing the Clean Industrial Capabilities Explorer (CICE). Our ML model predicts which countries are best positioned to compete in 10 clean energy technologies—and which industrial capabilities they need to get there. Explore the tool and policy brief at netzeropolicylab.com
Net Zero Policy Lab at Johns Hopkins University
We analyze clean energy supply chains and study net-zero industrial policies to catalyze strategic collaborations between government and industry.
netzeropolicylab.com
November 25, 2025 at 12:22 AM
Introducing the Clean Industrial Capabilities Explorer (CICE). Our ML model predicts which countries are best positioned to compete in 10 clean energy technologies—and which industrial capabilities they need to get there. Explore the tool and policy brief at netzeropolicylab.com
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i know this is kind of sappy but i love the sort of personal stories people tell in the replies to music videos
December 3, 2025 at 7:37 PM
i know this is kind of sappy but i love the sort of personal stories people tell in the replies to music videos
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I’m just a foreign policy wonk, standing in front of the GOP, asking them to read at least one fucking book about the history of US interventions in Latin America. www.politico.com/news/2025/12...
December 3, 2025 at 10:15 PM
I’m just a foreign policy wonk, standing in front of the GOP, asking them to read at least one fucking book about the history of US interventions in Latin America. www.politico.com/news/2025/12...
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they think literature has real power
May 18, 2025 at 9:37 PM
they think literature has real power
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part of the reason republicans are winning the culture war is that they care deeply about culture *ducks*
May 18, 2025 at 9:08 PM
part of the reason republicans are winning the culture war is that they care deeply about culture *ducks*
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By 2040, ~40% of the images from Hubble Space Telescope, and more than 96% from new and future space telescopes like SPHEREx, ARRAKIHS, and Xuntian will be contaminated by internet satellite constellations.
Read our new NASA article in Nature:
nature.com/articles/s4158…
Read our new NASA article in Nature:
nature.com/articles/s4158…
December 3, 2025 at 6:55 PM
By 2040, ~40% of the images from Hubble Space Telescope, and more than 96% from new and future space telescopes like SPHEREx, ARRAKIHS, and Xuntian will be contaminated by internet satellite constellations.
Read our new NASA article in Nature:
nature.com/articles/s4158…
Read our new NASA article in Nature:
nature.com/articles/s4158…
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Jacob Frey: "If we are now at the point where the federal govt is deploying agents on legal American citizens with a goal of uprooting people who have formed lives here, have families here, started businesses here, definitively made Minneapolis a better place, everybody should be speaking out."
December 3, 2025 at 4:32 PM
Jacob Frey: "If we are now at the point where the federal govt is deploying agents on legal American citizens with a goal of uprooting people who have formed lives here, have families here, started businesses here, definitively made Minneapolis a better place, everybody should be speaking out."
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"The traditional way that people think about technology revolutions is they think that the rich countries do it first and then the tech makes it to the poor countries, which is what happened w the internet"
Great ABC piece. @katemac.bsky.social & my Polycrisis thought www.abc.net.au/news/2025-11...
Great ABC piece. @katemac.bsky.social & my Polycrisis thought www.abc.net.au/news/2025-11...
Accessible, cheap clean energy could spark a new world order
Unshackled from legacy fossil fuel interests, the world’s clean energy future is being forged in the bustling cities of the global south.
www.abc.net.au
November 22, 2025 at 2:45 PM
"The traditional way that people think about technology revolutions is they think that the rich countries do it first and then the tech makes it to the poor countries, which is what happened w the internet"
Great ABC piece. @katemac.bsky.social & my Polycrisis thought www.abc.net.au/news/2025-11...
Great ABC piece. @katemac.bsky.social & my Polycrisis thought www.abc.net.au/news/2025-11...
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Read this if you are worried or angry about Climate:
"This is a story we're kind of seeing now happening all over the place, people … import solar panels from China, you stick it on the back of a moped, and you carry it into the countryside, and you just put it up"
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-11...
"This is a story we're kind of seeing now happening all over the place, people … import solar panels from China, you stick it on the back of a moped, and you carry it into the countryside, and you just put it up"
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-11...
November 22, 2025 at 2:54 PM
Read this if you are worried or angry about Climate:
"This is a story we're kind of seeing now happening all over the place, people … import solar panels from China, you stick it on the back of a moped, and you carry it into the countryside, and you just put it up"
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-11...
"This is a story we're kind of seeing now happening all over the place, people … import solar panels from China, you stick it on the back of a moped, and you carry it into the countryside, and you just put it up"
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-11...
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This will raise how much you pay to drive your car for the next ten years. Every time you fill up at the pump, the price should've been lower, but it won't be, because of this. Also more kids and elderly people will get sick from air pollution. Analysis: Seems bad. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/03/c...
Trump Returns to Gasoline as Fuel of Choice for Cars, Gutting Biden’s Climate Policy
www.nytimes.com
December 3, 2025 at 10:11 PM
This will raise how much you pay to drive your car for the next ten years. Every time you fill up at the pump, the price should've been lower, but it won't be, because of this. Also more kids and elderly people will get sick from air pollution. Analysis: Seems bad. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/03/c...
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Read it and weep:
Trump Returns to Gasoline as Fuel of Choice for Cars, Gutting Biden’s Climate Policy
www.nytimes.com
December 3, 2025 at 10:05 PM
Read it and weep:
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time to unearth this excellent paper by legal scholar @madisoncondon.bsky.social (see below), which "argues that actionable and transparent information about our climate-changed future is a public good that the private sector cannot be depended upon to provide equitably or reliably."
scholarship.law.bu.edu
December 3, 2025 at 1:48 PM
time to unearth this excellent paper by legal scholar @madisoncondon.bsky.social (see below), which "argues that actionable and transparent information about our climate-changed future is a public good that the private sector cannot be depended upon to provide equitably or reliably."
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It's 2025 and people are calling for a National Climate Service
It's 2020 and people are calling for a National Climate Service
It's 2011 and people are calling for a National Climate Service
It's 1978 and people are calling for a National Climate Service
papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
It's 2020 and people are calling for a National Climate Service
It's 2011 and people are calling for a National Climate Service
It's 1978 and people are calling for a National Climate Service
papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
Climate Services: The Business of Physical Risk
A growing number of investors, insurers, financial services providers, and nonprofits rely on information about localized physical climate risks, like floods, h
papers.ssrn.com
December 3, 2025 at 3:01 PM
It's 2025 and people are calling for a National Climate Service
It's 2020 and people are calling for a National Climate Service
It's 2011 and people are calling for a National Climate Service
It's 1978 and people are calling for a National Climate Service
papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
It's 2020 and people are calling for a National Climate Service
It's 2011 and people are calling for a National Climate Service
It's 1978 and people are calling for a National Climate Service
papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
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If it wasn't for the intentional inhumanity and mass deaths, the Trump presidency would be an absurdist comedy similar to 30 Rock
December 3, 2025 at 4:23 PM
If it wasn't for the intentional inhumanity and mass deaths, the Trump presidency would be an absurdist comedy similar to 30 Rock
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Sabrina Carpenter's post yesterday calling the White House video "evil and disgusting" is in record-setting ratio territory: 1.3 million likes (20x more than WH's), 177,000 reposts, 83 million views
December 3, 2025 at 3:59 PM
Sabrina Carpenter's post yesterday calling the White House video "evil and disgusting" is in record-setting ratio territory: 1.3 million likes (20x more than WH's), 177,000 reposts, 83 million views
“He’s talking about the actual devices that chew through the Earth and spit out waste, and also about a machinelike cast of mind: automatic, unreflective, content to produce and consume in an endless cycle“
Capitalism is progressive think Marxists. Kingsnorth thinks otherwise:
Capitalism is progressive think Marxists. Kingsnorth thinks otherwise:
A review of Paul Kingsnorth's new book "Against the Machine" which accurately identifies his implicit Christian anarchist millenarianism, and the long history of anti-progressive techno-pessimism he draws on www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
A Dark Ecologist Warns Against Hope
For years, Paul Kingsnorth was one of the most visible members of the green movement. Then he walked away from it. Now he wants us to walk away from everything else.
www.newyorker.com
December 3, 2025 at 4:51 PM
“He’s talking about the actual devices that chew through the Earth and spit out waste, and also about a machinelike cast of mind: automatic, unreflective, content to produce and consume in an endless cycle“
Capitalism is progressive think Marxists. Kingsnorth thinks otherwise:
Capitalism is progressive think Marxists. Kingsnorth thinks otherwise: