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Dr. Prakash Kashwan
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Env & Climate Justice Prof | Just Transition | Governance | Author Decolonizing Environmentalism https://tinyurl.com/3v2fysfr | Editor @environmentalpol.bsky.social | GoogleScholar https://tinyurl.com/PKGSChlr | Ex-Chair @isaess.bsky.social | Dad, Husband .. more

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Dr. Prakash Kashwan @pkashwan.bsky.social · Dec 10
Hi, BlueSky! Delighted to📣 Decolonizing Environmentalism (bloomsburybooksuk.bsky.social) is hitting the virtual book-shelf later this month & the bookstores in the new year. We wrote it esp. for the youth environmental & climate activists. Plz help spread the word. www.bloomsbury.com/us/decoloniz...
Decolonizing Environmentalism
We live in a moment rife with mixed emotions-existential anxieties about catastrophic climate change, presumptuous confidence in planet-hacking geoengineering t…
www.bloomsbury.com

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Pete Sikora @petesikora.bsky.social · 8h
Employment continues to drop in the U.S. oil & gas sector.

Down about 20%, a net loss of ~200,000 jobs in oil and gas over the past decade.

ieefa.org/resources/mo...
More oil, fewer jobs: Employment declines in the U.S. oil and gas sector
The U.S. oil and gas industry employs 20% fewer workers today than it did a decade ago, with total employment in the sector falling from 1.26 million to 1 million.
ieefa.org

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Juan Cole @jricole.bsky.social · 1d
In the Global Race for Electric Vehicle Dominance, the US is Falling Way Behind
In the Global Race for Electric Vehicle Dominance, the US is Falling Way Behind
They estimate that widespread EV adoption could reduce climate pollution worldwide by over 2 billion tons of carbon dioxide per year
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Reposted by Patrick Dunleavy, Juan Cole, Prakash Kashwan

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Alec Luhn @alecluhn.com · 1d
The US invented the solar panel & wind turbine, notes @billmckibben.bsky.social:
"We could have owned these technologies, & instead we’ve just ceded them to our theoretical main rival... I don’t think there’s been an act of national self-sabotage quite like this." www.theguardian.com/environment/...
‘This is the Costco of energy, man!’: author Bill McKibben on the promise of renewables
The activist and author of Here Comes the Sun discusses rapid advances in solar and wind power and how the US ceded leadership in the sector to its main rival
www.theguardian.com

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Dr. Prakash Kashwan @pkashwan.bsky.social · 2d
“While wealthy nations count the financial cost of disasters, millions of people across Africa, Asia and the Caribbean are counting lost lives, homes and futures. In 2026, govts must stop burying their heads in the sand and start responding with real support for people on the frontlines.” #NewYear
rahmstorf.bsky.social Prof. Stefan Rahmstorf @rahmstorf.bsky.social · 2d
"The bill for extreme weather damages will continue to rise until the world slashes greenhouse gas emissions and phases out fossil fuels."
What some don't understand: it will rise disproportionately as resilience limits of infrastructure are increasingly exceeded.
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/d...
Cyclones, floods and wildfires among 2025’s costliest climate-related disasters
Christian Aid annual report’s top 10 disasters amounted to more than $120bn in insured losses
www.theguardian.com

Reposted by Mark Lubell, Prakash Kashwan

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Prof. Stefan Rahmstorf @rahmstorf.bsky.social · 2d
"The bill for extreme weather damages will continue to rise until the world slashes greenhouse gas emissions and phases out fossil fuels."
What some don't understand: it will rise disproportionately as resilience limits of infrastructure are increasingly exceeded.
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/d...
Cyclones, floods and wildfires among 2025’s costliest climate-related disasters
Christian Aid annual report’s top 10 disasters amounted to more than $120bn in insured losses
www.theguardian.com

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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 2d
Today's column is on the relentless march of blithering idiocy, which includes denying climate science while your house is - literally in this case - burning down.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
A conversation between Joe Rogan and Mel Gibson summed up 2025 for me – and not in a good way | George Monbiot
From merrily dismissing climate science, to promoting irresponsible health claims, the podcast was an unintentional warning for our times, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot
www.theguardian.com

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Dr. Prakash Kashwan @pkashwan.bsky.social · 5d
Such a wonderful news! Happy holidays, Pete!

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Pete Sikora @petesikora.bsky.social · 5d
NYC’s Local Law 97, our “Green New Deal” is a huge success via energy efficiency upgrades to buildings!

✅ good jobs
✅ lower utility bills
✅ less pollution

Here, @thecity.nyc covers pollution reductions:
www.thecity.nyc/2025/12/23/g...
Greenhouse Gas Emissions Drop to Pandemic Levels in Sign of Local Climate Laws’ Impact
Phasing out fuel oil in buildings, improved energy efficiency and cleaner, greener cars contributed to a 5% decline between 2023 and 2024.
www.thecity.nyc

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The Conversation Africa @africa.theconversation.com · 5d
🐾 Sometimes, saving just one injured animal in the wild isn’t only about mercy—it can reshape what we believe is possible.

theconversation.com/africas-rare...

#EnvironmentAndEnergy
Africa’s rarest carnivore: the story of the first Ethiopian wolf ever captured, nursed and returned to the wild
An Ethiopian wolf, Africa’s most endangered carnivore, was found shot in the leg. What happened next was astonishing.
theconversation.com

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Dr. Prakash Kashwan @pkashwan.bsky.social · 6d
Carney promised to make Canada an “energy superpower in both clean & conventional [i.e., fossil fuel] energy”...what did that mean for emissions? Was the investment into carbon-free energy somehow supposed to atone for a simultaneous expansion of the fossil fuel sector? thewalrus.ca/no-matter-wh...
No Matter Which Way You Look at It, Carney Has Abandoned Climate | The Walrus
It’s one thing to make compromises in times of national crisis. It’s another to twist the math on emissions
thewalrus.ca

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Dr. Prakash Kashwan @pkashwan.bsky.social · 6d
"The Kuroshio, or “Black Current,” is one of the largest streams of water anywhere in the world, and its recent movement has triggered record-warm ocean temperatures and upended fisheries, an indelible staple of Japanese culture." #ClimateSky www.cnn.com/2025/12/17/c...
Why the weirdest sea level changes on Earth are happening off the coast of Japan | CNN
In recent years, a major ocean current changed its path in two crucial ways. Now parts of the sea are rising, other parts are falling, ocean temperatures are breaking records — and Japan’s iconic fish...
www.cnn.com

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Dr. Prakash Kashwan @pkashwan.bsky.social · 7d
Is a resignation imminent? www.bostonglobe.com/2025/12/22/n...
The Republican Party is fracturing. JD Vance’s 2028 hopes are caught in the middle. - The Boston Globe
The Republican Party that Vance is supposed to inherit is splintering over core questions of identity, ideology, and electability and he sits on the wrong side of too many of them.
www.bostonglobe.com

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Asha Rangappa @asharangappa.bsky.social · 7d
All of these bootlegged copies of the 60 Minutes segment flooding my feed (saying, ‘Watch it quick! Before it disappears!’) makes me feel like I’m in the Soviet Union and just got some black market foreign newspaper I need to hide under a floorboard in my house.

This is where America is now

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 7d
!! Here’s a link to full video of the 60 Minutes segment that Bari Weiss killed last minute, via @jasonparis.bsky.social:

is.gd/paU8Ko

(It was uploaded to the Global TV app in Canada, seemingly by accident, and has now been taken down)

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Wandile Sihlobo @wandilesihlobo.bsky.social · 7d
Misinformation is big business. But it’s bad news for South African farming. www.news24.com/business/opi...
OPINION | Misinformation is big business — but it’s bad news for SA farming | News24
In South Africa, distortions and fearmongering range from claims that agriculture is under siege to distorting the very structure of our farming economy. But the overall picture is better than you mig...
www.news24.com

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Dr. Prakash Kashwan @pkashwan.bsky.social · 7d
It's a statement of a lack of values to inform one's research program : (

Reposted by Raúl Pacheco-Vega, Prakash Kashwan

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Sandra @lilysch.bsky.social · 7d
Also, racist bias built in, even in something as straightforward as interpreting pathology slides:

futurism.com/health-medic...
Doctors Catch Cancer-Diagnosing AI Extracting Patients' Race Data and Being Racist With It
A new study reveals an alarming bias present in four leading AI cancer screening tools, related to race, gender, and age.
futurism.com

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Dr. Prakash Kashwan @pkashwan.bsky.social · 8d
Bizzare! The Seminole County Public Schools (SCPS) communications officer emphasized in an email to Ars to “please make sure it is noted that this student wasn’t simply carrying a clarinet. This individual was holding it as if it were a weapon.” arstechnica.com/tech-policy/...
School security AI flagged clarinet as a gun. Exec says it wasn’t an error.
Human review didn’t stop AI from triggering lockdown at panicked middle school.
arstechnica.com

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Daniel Aldrich @danielaldrich.bsky.social · 9d
Seventy-two percent of the solid waste ends up in landfills within state borders, and a truck carrying it sets off a radioactivity alarm every day on average insideclimatenews.org/news/2012202...
Twenty Years Into Fracking, Pennsylvania Has Yet to Reckon With Its Radioactive Waste - Inside Climate News
Former government officials say the state isn’t doing enough to regulate fracking waste, even as new research shows it’s far more radioactive than previously known.
insideclimatenews.org

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Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 9d
It was such a joy to celebrate Hanukkah with Mandy, Kathryn and their son, Gideon. As Jewish New Yorkers across our city prepare to light candles and mark the seventh night today, I wish you and your families a Hanukkah full of light and love.

youtu.be/KIxAKyioXng
Happy Hanukkah
YouTube video by Zohran Mamdani for NYC
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Dr. Prakash Kashwan @pkashwan.bsky.social · 9d
Reality has a way of catching up. The realities of dramatically different incentives for the energy industry in a climate-changed world seem to be catching up. Yet, trust some to profit from the last ounce of the planet's vital systems, e.g., venture capitalists responsible for abandoned oil wells.
politico.com Politico @politico.com · 12d
EXCLUSIVE: The Trump administration is asking U.S. oil companies if they’re interested in returning to Venezuela once Maduro is toppled, per sources familiar with the discussions.

So far, the answer is a hard “no.”
Trump administration asking US oil industry to return to Venezuela — but getting no takers
The administration’s outreach to the industry, previously unreported, is the latest sign the White House is dreaming of a post-Maduro future for Venezuela.
www.politico.com

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Jeff Colgan @jeffcolgan.bsky.social · 10d
Definitely agree so-called climate realism and its flaws are worth a long hard look ...
www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
Global Climate Politics after the Return of President Trump | International Organization | Cambridge Core
Global Climate Politics after the Return of President Trump - Volume 79 Issue S1
www.cambridge.org

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Dr. Prakash Kashwan @pkashwan.bsky.social · 10d
We should bear in mind that the advocates of "climate realism" and many of the proponents of the so-called "abundance agenda" represent a more formidable barrier against meaningful environmental & climate action, than those who can be identified readily as "greenwashers." #GreenSky #EnergySky

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Grist @grist.org · 10d
One word sums up climate politics in 2025: Greenlash
One word sums up climate politics in 2025: Greenlash
In a year shaped by Trump's return to the White House, the new administration touted "energy dominance" and protesters threw eggs at "swasticars."
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Dr. Prakash Kashwan @pkashwan.bsky.social · 10d
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shaneanderson.bsky.social Shane Anderson 🏳️‍🌈 @shaneanderson.bsky.social · 10d
"This promise of an AI future, is really just a collective anxiety that wealthy people have about how well they're gonna be able to control us in the future."

- @tressiemcphd.bsky.social with an absolute mic drop moment about AI bullshit.

Incredible words.
Listen to all of it!

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Shane Anderson 🏳️‍🌈 @shaneanderson.bsky.social · 10d
"This promise of an AI future, is really just a collective anxiety that wealthy people have about how well they're gonna be able to control us in the future."

- @tressiemcphd.bsky.social with an absolute mic drop moment about AI bullshit.

Incredible words.
Listen to all of it!

Reposted by Ashok Swain

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Dr. Prakash Kashwan @pkashwan.bsky.social · 11d
As India claims to be an emerging global power, it'd do well to invest some of its wealth to address climate change & climate inequalities at home. Climate change is not just an env/diplomatic issue: it's about human security. @ashoswai.bsky.social @thediplomat.com thediplomat.com/2025/12/indi...
Screenshot of the header of an article by Prakash Kashwan and Ashok Swain published in The Diplomat magazine. The title and the blurb reads as follows: India’s Climate Diplomacy Must Account for Domestic Inequalities Economic liberalization in India has shifted the emissions burden from more equal and developed states to less equal ones. This needs to change.

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J. Mijin Cha @jmijin.bsky.social · 11d
This is a beautiful tribute to a beautiful soul.
Melissa Hortman Died in a Shocking Act of Political Violence. This Is the Story of Her Life
Melissa Hortman died in a shocking act of political violence. This is her story
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Dr. Prakash Kashwan @pkashwan.bsky.social · 11d
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Dr. Prakash Kashwan @pkashwan.bsky.social · 11d
These prestigious institutions do host some inspiring scholars. But, by and large, their role in promoting market-based environmentalism and "climate solutions," which takes the form of an ideology more than an evidence-based enterprise, can be the subject of a similar book-length project. #Academia