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Pamela Beck @pamelalbeck.bsky.social · 2h

Watch "The #BillGates Memo: Climate Scientists Respond With Urgency" on YouTube
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Why I'm writing about #climate & culture - by #SammyRoth
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The Bill Gates Memo: Climate Scientists Respond With Urgency

YouTube video by Covering Climate Now

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Pamela Beck @pamelalbeck.bsky.social · 1d

#TimeCapsule2076 #KidsGaze
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The world’s largest survey on climate change is out – here's what the results show | UNDP Climate Promise
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Pamela Beck @pamelalbeck.bsky.social · 2d

“If you look around the world right now, climate change is directly undermining human dev goals, poverty eradication & health goals. You just have to look at the disruption from the climate-supercharged Hurricane Melissa to see an example of that”
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Bill Gates is just plain wrong about climate change – Fast Company

The logic is flawed, and built on a series of false trade-offs that ignore how interconnected climate and development goals are. Gates criticizes the “doomsday” view that climate change will “decim…

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Pamela Beck @pamelalbeck.bsky.social · 2d

Watch "Will Steffen - The Anthropocene: Challenges of the Human Age"
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#WillSteffen: "The worst-case scenario could collapse modern civilization. That's the risk. That's not overblown. I can't put a probability on it, but I can tell you for sure..." (49:23)
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Emeritus Professor Will Steffen - The Anthropocene: Challenges of the Human Age

YouTube video by Affinity Intercultural Foundation

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Pamela Beck @pamelalbeck.bsky.social · 2d

NYT: How Close Are the Planet’s #Climate #TippingPoints? www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

How Close Are the Planet’s Climate Tipping Points? (Published 2024)

Earth’s warming could trigger sweeping changes in the natural world that would be hard, if not impossible, to reverse.

www.nytimes.com

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Pamela Beck @pamelalbeck.bsky.social · 2d

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#BillGates Has a Point
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"With over $100 billion to his name, Mr. Gates is arguably one of the least appropriate people to police...His memo also glossed over the possibility of runaway warming within our lifetimes & the destruction of nature."

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Pamela Beck @pamelalbeck.bsky.social · 4d

#KidsGaze #TimeCapsule2076
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NYT: Want to End Poverty? Focus on One Thing. www.nytimes.com/2024/09/22/o...

Spoiler Alert — It's *Energy*

Carl Sagan quote from a 1995 Charlie Rose interview.

NYT: Want to End Poverty? Focus on One Thing. https://www.nytimes.com/2024/09/22/opinion/clean-energy-electricity-poverty.html

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Pamela Beck @pamelalbeck.bsky.social · 4d

"The biggest lesson of the past two decades of Silicon Valley is that Meta, Amazon, and Google -- have remade our world and have become unfathomably rich for it, all while being mostly oblivious or uninterested in the fallout." 🎁
www.theatlantic.com/technology/2...

Here’s How the AI Crash Happens

The U.S. is becoming an Nvidia-state.

www.theatlantic.com

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Pamela Beck @pamelalbeck.bsky.social · 4d

#KidsGaze #TimeCapsule2076
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(Perhaps, realistically, it's a bit more both/& rather than either/or, however point taken as to the failures of tech oligarchy...)

Washington Post: What if we need spiritual revival, not technology, to address climate change
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Pamela Beck @pamelalbeck.bsky.social · 5d

#HurricaneMelissa
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#TimeCapsule2076
2025 state of the climate report: a planet on the brink | BioScience | Oxford Academic
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"We are hurtling towards climate chaos. The planet's vital signs are flashing red. The consequences of human driven alterations to the climate are no longer future threats. But are here now. This unfolding emergency stems from failed foresight, political inaction and unsustainable economic systems and misinformation..."

2025 state of the climate report: a planet on the brink | BioScience | Oxford Academic

https://academic.oup.com/bioscience/advance-article/doi/10.1093/biosci/biaf149/8303627

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Pamela Beck @pamelalbeck.bsky.social · 6d

#HurricaneMelissa #CarlSagan
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"We live in a society absolutely dependent on science and technology and yet have cleverly arranged things so that almost no one understands science and technology. That's a clear precription for disaster." Carl Sagan

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Pamela Beck @pamelalbeck.bsky.social · 6d

#HurricaneMelissa
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Major report warns planet approaching tipping points
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Major report warns planet approaching tipping points
https://weatheire.com/news/climate/2025/10/30/major-report-warns-planet-approaching-tipping-poi

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Pamela Beck @pamelalbeck.bsky.social · 6d

#HurricaneMelissa #climate
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Major report warns planet approaching tipping points
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Pamela Beck @pamelalbeck.bsky.social · 6d

#Climate #TimeCapsule2076
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Bill Gates Calls for Redirecting of Climate Funds to Global Health - GreekReporter.com

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Daniel Swain @weatherwest.bsky.social · 6d

I wanted to offer some thoughts on the Gates climate memo that has been circulating this week. While I can't directly speak for others, I can say that my own response is one of dismay & deep frustration (and that this view is shared by many climate/Earth scientists). [1/n]

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Pamela Beck @pamelalbeck.bsky.social · 6d

#ConservativesKidsGaze
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We’re not reaching the Global Goals. What now? | Bill Gates and Bjorn Lomborg
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A screenshot of the now archived piece, co-authored by both Bill Gates and Bjorn Lomborg, and titled, "We're not reaching the Global Goals. What now?"

We’re not reaching the Global Goals. What now? | Bill Gates
https://web.archive.org/web/20230601175906/https://www.gatesnotes.com/Global-Goals-Op-Ed

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Pamela Beck @pamelalbeck.bsky.social · 6d

#TimeCapsule2076
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Michael E. Mann @michaelemann.bsky.social · 6d

The techbro villain "Peter Isherwell" in Don't Look Up is literally based (at least in part) on Bill Gates: michaelmann.net/dont-look-up...

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Pamela Beck @pamelalbeck.bsky.social · 6d

The Demon-Haunted World by #CarlSagan, "...when awesome technological powers are in the hands of a very few, and no one representing the public interest can even grasp the issues..."

Review of Carl Sagan's The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark by Dr. Michael E. Mann in Nature: https://www.nature.com/articles/548028a

Paragraph highlighted in The Demon-Haunted World by Carl Sagan, "...when awesome technological powers are in the hands of a very few, and no one representing the public interest can even grasp the issues..."

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Pamela Beck @pamelalbeck.bsky.social · 11d

#TimeCapsule2076
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Trump’s Gilded Ballroom and the Fall of the American Republic
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"...a class of incredibly wealthy oligarchs who were too wealthy & powerful to be constrained by republican norms, institutions & laws."

Paul Krugman on modern parallels to how "the Roman Republic degenerated into dictatorship."

Pamela Beck @pamelalbeck.bsky.social · 12d

#TimeCapsule2076
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Pamela Beck @pamelalbeck.bsky.social · 13d

#TimeCapsule2076
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@wriclimate.bsky.social:

📢 #StateOfClimateAction 2025

The report finds global efforts fall far short of what’s needed to keep the #ParisAgreement goal within reach—not a single one of the 45 indicators is on track for 2030

Read the report: bit.ly/4o6hPwm

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Pamela Beck @pamelalbeck.bsky.social · 13d

#ConservativesKidsGaze
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“We are witnessing widespread decline in the health of our planet. But this is not an inevitable outcome.” said Johan Rockström, Director of the Potsdam Institute for #Climate Impact Research

www.stockholmresilience.org/news--events...

Stockholm Resilience Centre: Seven of nine planetary boundaries now breached

A major new scientific review "Planetary Health Check 2025", shows that 7 of 9 planetary boundaries have now been exceeded.

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Pamela Beck @pamelalbeck.bsky.social · 13d

#TimeCapsule2076
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San Francisco Chronicle article re: how #Trump is abdicating U.S. leadership on science and #climatechange

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San Francisco Chronicle: U.S. falling behind Asian countries on climate science

"The United States once stood as the global beacon of scientific excellence. From the Manhattan Project and Apollo missions to mRNA vaccines, American institutions led the charge in understanding and confronting the planet's most pressing challenges. But today that leadership is eroding.

Nowhere Is this loss of U.S. leadership more visible than in the realm of climate science."

(Lede to San Francisco Chronicle article)

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Pamela Beck @pamelalbeck.bsky.social · 13d

“Today’s decision by the Trump administration is irresponsible as a policy matter, a poor economic decision and flouts laws that protect this irreplaceable landscape,” said Earthjustice Attorney Erik Grafe. #TimeCapsule2076 #ConservativesKidsGaze

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Earthjustice @earthjustice.org · 13d

BREAKING: Today, Interior Secretary Doug Burgum opened all 1.56 million acres of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge’s Coastal Plain to oil and gas leasing. These lands are sacred to the Gwich’in Nation, home to irreplaceable wildlife and wilderness, and have never seen industrialization.

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Pamela Beck @pamelalbeck.bsky.social · 14d

The Rise of RFK Jr. | FRONTLINE | PBS | Official Site | Documentary Series

Watch FRONTLINE's documentary examining the dramatic and controversial rise of Robert F. Kennedy Jr.

www.pbs.org

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Pamela Beck @pamelalbeck.bsky.social · 15d

#ConservativesKidsGaze
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In 'Latest Pro-Polluter Move,' Trump EPA to End Emissions Data Collection www.commondreams.org/news/greenho...

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