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Dave-Inder Comar

@daveindercomar.bsky.social

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Attorney and PhD candidate at the Grotius Centre for Intl Legal Studies at Leiden🌞🌍⚖️ Researching self-determination and climate change👨🏾‍💼 🌳 I also advise smart, principled people and companies that are impacting the world

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Dave-Inder Comar @daveindercomar.bsky.social · Nov 17

Reintroducing myself 🙌🏽

I’m a lawyer in private practice currently getting my PhD in international law with a focus on climate change impacts.

My specific area of research looks at the self-determination of peoples in an era of planetary threats 🌍

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Peter du Toit @peterdutoit.com · 19h

Watching the US be reconfigured by the Project 2025 blueprint is something else.

They are ticking boxes at an astonishing rate.

8 months and 22 weeks in
39 months to go

The US will be unrecognisable in 2029.

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Dave-Inder Comar @daveindercomar.bsky.social · 7h

Sunday morning candle (graphite and pen on paper

Dave-Inder Comar @daveindercomar.bsky.social · 7h

Governments must re-orient their purpose to become guardians of planetary well-being—so that both peoples and the environment may exist and thrive together

The transformation we now face is not merely technical or economic; it is constitutional and philosophical

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Dave-Inder Comar @daveindercomar.bsky.social · 9h

In an era of climate disruption, the central task of government must evolve. In addition to defending fundamental freedoms, a core purpose of government must be to restore balance between humanity, our societies, and fragile Earth systems.

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Dave-Inder Comar @daveindercomar.bsky.social · 7d

The journey back to a stable climate will take hundreds or even thousands of years.

This journey must begin asap. It will require a different perspective on why we are here, and what we are doing with our short lives in this critical moment of human history 🌍

Dave-Inder Comar @daveindercomar.bsky.social · 7d

It is not yet too late to rehabilitate and reform the UN system, including the Security Council, but such reform will depend on the United States’ willingness to support a system where international law holds ultimate authority.

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Dave-Inder Comar @daveindercomar.bsky.social · 7d

It is vital to connect the dots between the breakdown of democracy and the failure to protect the environment. In the U.S., these crises stem from a shared delusion—that 20th-century policies and programs can still carry us through a 21st-century crisis.

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Dave-Inder Comar @daveindercomar.bsky.social · 7d

In the era of climate disruption, the central task of government must evolve. In addition to defending fundamental rights, a core purpose of government must be to restore balance between humanity and fragile Earth systems 🌳

Dave-Inder Comar @daveindercomar.bsky.social · 7d

The prospect of tipping points at and after 1.5°C of warming is a significant and even existential challenge to peoples and nations, no matter how wealthy or technologically advanced

We need a vision of a world in which we can address these challenges 🌍

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Dave-Inder Comar @daveindercomar.bsky.social · 11d

There is no way that governments will be able to manage climate impacts so long as they resort to war and conflict in their international relations. Peacebuilding and international justice go hand-in-hand with maintaining a habitable planet.

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Dave-Inder Comar @daveindercomar.bsky.social · 11d

It’s essential that climate policy be connected to human rights—including economic and social right—as well as a movement to build a more peaceful world.

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Dave-Inder Comar @daveindercomar.bsky.social · 12d

Policymakers must think much bigger about the vision of a habitable planet. Energy and environmental policies are only the beginning. We also need to focus on protecting fundamental rights, promoting health, and envisioning a more peaceful and just world.

Dave-Inder Comar @daveindercomar.bsky.social · 14d

Well-established climate projections place the Earth on track for 3°C of warming by the end of the century.

At and above 1.5°C, the risk of triggering climate tipping points increases.

It is essential to implement an urgent plan to stop this planetary threat and protect our human rights 🌍

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Dave-Inder Comar @daveindercomar.bsky.social · 14d

Instead of geoengineering, I would much prefer a policy response rooted in:

—a just energy transition,
—social and cultural change in high-energy societies, and
—a long-term plan (perhaps centuries-long) to stabilize the climate system based on environmental restoration

I resonate with this 🌍

Dave-Inder Comar @daveindercomar.bsky.social · 14d

The international legal order is caught in a 'doom loop'. Each breach of international law poisons global cooperation even more, leading to increasing instability and anarchy.

Disrupting this doom loop to restore the international rule of law and protect human rights must become a top priority 🌍

Dave-Inder Comar @daveindercomar.bsky.social · 17d

Just as governments have industrial policy and monetary policy, there is an urgent need for planetary policy.

How will we collectively stop warming? Preserve biodiversity? Keep the Arctic cold?

What is the plan to maintain a habitable planet?

We need policymakers who can speak like this 🌍

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Prof. Stefan Rahmstorf @rahmstorf.bsky.social · 19d

Trump spreading fossil fuel propaganda lies at the UN - what an embarrassing president for the US.

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Dave-Inder Comar @daveindercomar.bsky.social · 18d

Climate change is far more a political issue than a technological one.

The impacts of climate change are already falling disproportionately on marginalizes communities—those without political power.

Technocratic idealism feels less 'controversial,' but does not reflect the realities of power.

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Dave-Inder Comar @daveindercomar.bsky.social · 18d

Having a climate denier as president underscores that climate change is far more a political and social issue at this time than a technological one.

We won't be able to stop global warming without a broad-based political effort that can envision the just energy transition.

Fact-checking what Trump said about climate change during the UN General Assembly

President Donald Trump spent a considerable amount of his address to the United Nations General Assembly on Tuesday disparaging renewable energy sources.

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Dave-Inder Comar @daveindercomar.bsky.social · 21d

What will our world look like in 2030?
I think it takes a kind of courage to even speculate. Social and environmental trends are not good.

Governance is fragile domestically and broken at the global level.

Climate impacts continue to accelerate and cascade.

We have to work for a better future 🌍

Dave-Inder Comar @daveindercomar.bsky.social · 25d

The Holocene is over and the Earth is now barreling towards a much hotter state.

All of our fundamental rights are wrapped together with the issue of a habitable planet.

Equal rights means ending all forms of sacrifice zones and ensuring that all people can live with dignity ⭐️

Dave-Inder Comar @daveindercomar.bsky.social · 25d

I don’t think we’ll see real climate action without a critical shift in mindset that sees the Earth as a shared home for all people and other life.

In tandem—true governance and the international rule of law ⭐️

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Sam Bright @writesbright.bsky.social · 28d

🔴 NEW - Why you should leave X

Here’s the sad truth: Twitter no longer exists. X is something else entirely. It’s a megaphone for extremism, controlled by a deranged oligarch.

📝 latest Substack 👇🏻

Why you should leave X

A rallying cry to progressives everywhere...

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Conrad Hackett @conradhackett.bsky.social · 27d

Time for the world to install a gigawatt of solar power capacity
2004: A year
2010: ~ a month
2015: ~ a week
Now: A day
ourworldindata.org/data-insight... 🧪

Line chart showing that there's been a rapid escalation in how quickly the world installs a gigawatt of solar power capacity.

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