Neil Tangri
@tangri0.bsky.social
Climate scientist working for climate justice. Sailor on the side.
Topics: plastics, waste, carbon accounting, methane, zero waste, plastic credits, chemical recycling, incineration, and just transition. At GAIA and UC Berkeley.
Opinions my own etc.
Topics: plastics, waste, carbon accounting, methane, zero waste, plastic credits, chemical recycling, incineration, and just transition. At GAIA and UC Berkeley.
Opinions my own etc.
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Neil Tangri
@tangri0.bsky.social
· Feb 12
Hi folks! I made a starter pack of #plastic scientists -- many of whom closely follow the #plasticstreaty negotiations. Check them out! go.bsky.app/QA29MA
This is exactly right. This is the test for @democrats.org : Will you fight back or be complicit in war crimes? There is no middle road.
Every single congressional Democrat needs to be out there, right now, insisting that Pete Hegseth resign right now and announcing that he will be held accountable for committing war crimes.
If you do not demand accountability here and now, they will only become more emboldened.
If you do not demand accountability here and now, they will only become more emboldened.
Exclusive: Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth gave an order to “kill everybody” in the first strike on suspected drug boats in the Caribbean. After two men survived, the mission commander ordered a second strike to comply with Hegseth’s instructions, according to two sources.
November 28, 2025 at 8:30 PM
This is exactly right. This is the test for @democrats.org : Will you fight back or be complicit in war crimes? There is no middle road.
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"recycling rates of 10% are ineffective against annual plastic production of >460 million tonnes."
Recycling alone cannot end the plastic pollution crisis
www.cell.com/cell-reports...
#plasticpollution
#recycling is ineffective
#reduce
#reuse
www.cell.com/cell-reports...
#plasticpollution
#recycling is ineffective
#reduce
#reuse
Recycling alone cannot end the plastic pollution crisis
Recycling has been touted as a solution to combat the global plastic pollution crisis,
but recycling rates of 10% are ineffective against annual plastic production of >460
million tonnes. Solutions be...
www.cell.com
November 27, 2025 at 1:19 PM
"recycling rates of 10% are ineffective against annual plastic production of >460 million tonnes."
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Note to Democratic politicians, if you are looking for a way to get young people to the voting booths, run on prosecuting everyone at ICE and we'll turn out in droves.
November 25, 2025 at 9:12 PM
Note to Democratic politicians, if you are looking for a way to get young people to the voting booths, run on prosecuting everyone at ICE and we'll turn out in droves.
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Seeing how much of the right-wing on Twitter is just bot farms, kinda lays bare how much hate and hatred is a project that needs to be constantly maintained, a fire that needs to be fed all the time lest it go out for a moment, so much time, effort, and resources to keep people angry and hateful.
November 24, 2025 at 1:54 PM
Seeing how much of the right-wing on Twitter is just bot farms, kinda lays bare how much hate and hatred is a project that needs to be constantly maintained, a fire that needs to be fed all the time lest it go out for a moment, so much time, effort, and resources to keep people angry and hateful.
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The bill last numbered H.R. 9495 would empower the Treasury Secretary to designate any nonprofit the Secretary wishes to kill a “terrorist supporting organization” and revoke the tax-exempt status on which it depends for survival. Unconstitutional but lethal in the harm it would do while in force.
November 23, 2025 at 1:54 PM
The bill last numbered H.R. 9495 would empower the Treasury Secretary to designate any nonprofit the Secretary wishes to kill a “terrorist supporting organization” and revoke the tax-exempt status on which it depends for survival. Unconstitutional but lethal in the harm it would do while in force.
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Adding alt text and a note that the girl on the left is wearing a sash with Yiddish text reading “anider mit kinder shklaferay” (אַנידער מיט קינדער שקלאַפֿערײַ): “down with child slavery”
November 23, 2025 at 3:00 AM
Adding alt text and a note that the girl on the left is wearing a sash with Yiddish text reading “anider mit kinder shklaferay” (אַנידער מיט קינדער שקלאַפֿערײַ): “down with child slavery”
So…this is bad. What exactly is the point of these talks if the only agreement is to keep talking? At what point will countries finally say the process is broken and we need a different one?
Final document for #COP30 just dropped and here are some hot takes
1/ No decisive language about FF phaseouts. This is a HUGE loss. The consolation prize is a political process toward phaseouts outside the official decisionmaking of the #ParisAgreement
1/ No decisive language about FF phaseouts. This is a HUGE loss. The consolation prize is a political process toward phaseouts outside the official decisionmaking of the #ParisAgreement
unfccc.int
November 22, 2025 at 3:26 PM
So…this is bad. What exactly is the point of these talks if the only agreement is to keep talking? At what point will countries finally say the process is broken and we need a different one?
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If you want a sense of how far the surveillance state has expanded inside the United States, look at what federal authorities are doing on our highways.
November 21, 2025 at 5:46 AM
If you want a sense of how far the surveillance state has expanded inside the United States, look at what federal authorities are doing on our highways.
It's time to abandon consensus in international negotiations. Whether at #UNFCCC or the #plasticstreaty, it has become a hindrance, not an enabler, of progress. The question now is: who has a vision for what replaces it? www.theguardian.com/world/live/2...
Cop30 live: summit president warns ‘everybody will lose’ if countries fail to cooperate
André Corrêa do Lago issues plea to preserve Paris agreement with countries far from reaching agreement on scheduled final day
www.theguardian.com
November 21, 2025 at 3:09 PM
It's time to abandon consensus in international negotiations. Whether at #UNFCCC or the #plasticstreaty, it has become a hindrance, not an enabler, of progress. The question now is: who has a vision for what replaces it? www.theguardian.com/world/live/2...
Well that’s a bit too on the nose for this moment.
At a more practical level it also demonstrates the danger of all that plastic - carpets, furnishings, dividers etc.
At a more practical level it also demonstrates the danger of all that plastic - carpets, furnishings, dividers etc.
BREAKING: The UN climate talks COP30 have been evacuated due to a fire breaking out inside the venue in Belém, Brazil.
November 21, 2025 at 1:02 PM
Well that’s a bit too on the nose for this moment.
At a more practical level it also demonstrates the danger of all that plastic - carpets, furnishings, dividers etc.
At a more practical level it also demonstrates the danger of all that plastic - carpets, furnishings, dividers etc.
The politics of the #plasticstreaty and #UNFCCC are converging: petrostates against the world. We can't let a handful of countries hellbent on mutual destruction kill multilateralism. Time to move on without them. resolve.cambridge.org/core/service... www.theguardian.com/environment/...
resolve.cambridge.org
November 21, 2025 at 3:05 AM
The politics of the #plasticstreaty and #UNFCCC are converging: petrostates against the world. We can't let a handful of countries hellbent on mutual destruction kill multilateralism. Time to move on without them. resolve.cambridge.org/core/service... www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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Great new long read by @bethgardiner.bsky.social Many forget that Big Plastic is really just Big Oil looking for a way to continue polluting the planet. www.scientificamerican.com/article/how-...
How the Fossil-Fuel Industry’s Pivot to Plastic Is Polluting Our Planet
To keep profits rolling in, oil and gas companies want to turn fossil fuels into a mounting pile of packaging and other plastic products
www.scientificamerican.com
November 19, 2025 at 7:29 PM
Great new long read by @bethgardiner.bsky.social Many forget that Big Plastic is really just Big Oil looking for a way to continue polluting the planet. www.scientificamerican.com/article/how-...
Interesting thread on yet one more danger of #AI
Bellingcat’s contact email has always been a magnet for people with fairly unusual views; paranoid delusions, sprawling conspiracies, the works. But recently, the pattern has shifted, we’re seeing more and more emails clearly written with ChatGPT.
November 19, 2025 at 5:24 PM
Interesting thread on yet one more danger of #AI
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Nearly every panel I spoke on this year ended with the same question: "What gives you hope?"
My friends, that question expired years ago. (If you need receipts, my book Saving Us is literally a 300-page answer.)
The real question is: How are you PRACTICING hope?
Because Greta is right ..
My friends, that question expired years ago. (If you need receipts, my book Saving Us is literally a 300-page answer.)
The real question is: How are you PRACTICING hope?
Because Greta is right ..
November 19, 2025 at 3:49 PM
Nearly every panel I spoke on this year ended with the same question: "What gives you hope?"
My friends, that question expired years ago. (If you need receipts, my book Saving Us is literally a 300-page answer.)
The real question is: How are you PRACTICING hope?
Because Greta is right ..
My friends, that question expired years ago. (If you need receipts, my book Saving Us is literally a 300-page answer.)
The real question is: How are you PRACTICING hope?
Because Greta is right ..
Great thread from @sarahjeong.bsky.social In the US, we have elevated nonviolence above efficacy. Millions can march and be ignored. We forget that the moral power of NV in the civil rights era came from facing violence. We need new tactics along with new strategies for a new era.
ok so!!! something I found really interesting after talking to Korean protesters was... well, it was actually me realizing something about protest in the US: protest is trapped in an unwinnable spiral about "peaceful" versus "violent" protest, and even people
who know it's dumb can't break free
who know it's dumb can't break free
Deeply weird seeing people try to paint the protests in South Korea as family friendly parties when the one that stopped the original coup featured girls doing karate moves on riot cops and guys in the legislature spraying special forces units with fire extinguishers
Moreover, ICE must be destroyed
Moreover, ICE must be destroyed
November 19, 2025 at 5:20 PM
Great thread from @sarahjeong.bsky.social In the US, we have elevated nonviolence above efficacy. Millions can march and be ignored. We forget that the moral power of NV in the civil rights era came from facing violence. We need new tactics along with new strategies for a new era.
It's wild that China is talking up the importance of multilateralism when the US doesn't even bother showing up at the most important international negotiation in years. China's cards are on the table: reduce tariffs for green goods. The US is AWOL. www.theguardian.com/environment/...
China doesn’t want to lead alone on climate policies, senior adviser warns
Exclusive: A top official in Beijing’s Cop delegation says China is committed to clean energy – but US’s absence is a problem
www.theguardian.com
November 19, 2025 at 5:09 PM
It's wild that China is talking up the importance of multilateralism when the US doesn't even bother showing up at the most important international negotiation in years. China's cards are on the table: reduce tariffs for green goods. The US is AWOL. www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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The latest Cloudflare and Amazon outages have got me thinking about utilities. We can't build modern software without dependencies. The days of running entirely on the client are over, which I see as a good thing. The cost is that we rely on infrastructure.
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November 18, 2025 at 8:03 PM
The latest Cloudflare and Amazon outages have got me thinking about utilities. We can't build modern software without dependencies. The days of running entirely on the client are over, which I see as a good thing. The cost is that we rely on infrastructure.
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Wow. 348 km/h = 217 mph. You can't do this on an airplane. High-speed rail FTW. www.reddit.com/r/BeAmazed/c...
Coin balance test on a high speed train in China
www.reddit.com
November 18, 2025 at 10:02 PM
Wow. 348 km/h = 217 mph. You can't do this on an airplane. High-speed rail FTW. www.reddit.com/r/BeAmazed/c...
As with everything @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social writes this is timely and on the nose. It’s very helpful to distinguish between politicians and ordinary people.
No secret that I'm a huge @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social fan. This piece is tough, important, and excellent. www.meditationsinanemergency.com/how-big-shou...
How Big Should Your Tent Be?
It's striking to me that a lot of people want politics to be about their personal feelings, in which case they're not engaged in politics, though they may be engaged in the sabotage of politics. This ...
www.meditationsinanemergency.com
November 17, 2025 at 2:11 AM
As with everything @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social writes this is timely and on the nose. It’s very helpful to distinguish between politicians and ordinary people.
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Remember: The concentration of wealth in the hands of a few isn't just bad for our economy. It's corrosive to our democracy.
When the wealthy and well-connected control our political system, regular people don't have a voice.
The result? The demagoguery and corruption we're seeing now.
When the wealthy and well-connected control our political system, regular people don't have a voice.
The result? The demagoguery and corruption we're seeing now.
November 17, 2025 at 12:31 AM
Remember: The concentration of wealth in the hands of a few isn't just bad for our economy. It's corrosive to our democracy.
When the wealthy and well-connected control our political system, regular people don't have a voice.
The result? The demagoguery and corruption we're seeing now.
When the wealthy and well-connected control our political system, regular people don't have a voice.
The result? The demagoguery and corruption we're seeing now.
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The overwhelmingly simple takeaway from almost every released epstein email is that extremely rich people are bad people, or at minimum, people prepared to tolerate evil for even the mildest social convenience.
November 16, 2025 at 12:03 PM
The overwhelmingly simple takeaway from almost every released epstein email is that extremely rich people are bad people, or at minimum, people prepared to tolerate evil for even the mildest social convenience.
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