Dr. Kenneth A. Gould
@enviroprof.bsky.social
Environmental sociologist. Climate change. Environmental justice. Sustainable development. Treadmill of Production. Green gentrification.
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Imagined Futures - Tāmaki Makaurau, Auckland, NZ 10/10/24
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On Monday, EPA proposed to strip federal protections from millions of acres of wetlands and streams, narrowing the reach of the Clean Water Act. On Wed, agencies changed the Endangered Species Act to make it harder to rescue endangered species www.nytimes.com/2025/11/22/c...
In One Week, Trump Moves to Reshape U.S. Environmental Policy
www.nytimes.com
November 23, 2025 at 12:06 AM
On Monday, EPA proposed to strip federal protections from millions of acres of wetlands and streams, narrowing the reach of the Clean Water Act. On Wed, agencies changed the Endangered Species Act to make it harder to rescue endangered species www.nytimes.com/2025/11/22/c...
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ICE agents in Queens, New York break down a bedroom door and point guns at a mother & her four US citizen children
They dragged the mother out by her hair while yelling at the kids to “put your hands up, stupid!”
This is tyranny
These kids are traumatized
It was warrantless and no ID was shown.
They dragged the mother out by her hair while yelling at the kids to “put your hands up, stupid!”
This is tyranny
These kids are traumatized
It was warrantless and no ID was shown.
November 21, 2025 at 10:55 AM
ICE agents in Queens, New York break down a bedroom door and point guns at a mother & her four US citizen children
They dragged the mother out by her hair while yelling at the kids to “put your hands up, stupid!”
This is tyranny
These kids are traumatized
It was warrantless and no ID was shown.
They dragged the mother out by her hair while yelling at the kids to “put your hands up, stupid!”
This is tyranny
These kids are traumatized
It was warrantless and no ID was shown.
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Can’t believe the whole country has to suffer through the return of Dickensian childhood diseases because the worst, most ignorant attention-demanders decided other people’s expertise makes them feel bad
November 20, 2025 at 4:19 AM
Can’t believe the whole country has to suffer through the return of Dickensian childhood diseases because the worst, most ignorant attention-demanders decided other people’s expertise makes them feel bad
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I wish there was better news than this headline ⚒️🧪
"Global carbon emissions from fossil fuels are projected to rise by 1.1% in 2025 - reaching a record high" (globalcarbonbudget.org/fossil-fuel-...)
+ Global Carbon Budget 2025 is out globalcarbonbudget.org/gcb-2025/
+ Paper doi.org/10.5194/essd...
"Global carbon emissions from fossil fuels are projected to rise by 1.1% in 2025 - reaching a record high" (globalcarbonbudget.org/fossil-fuel-...)
+ Global Carbon Budget 2025 is out globalcarbonbudget.org/gcb-2025/
+ Paper doi.org/10.5194/essd...
November 19, 2025 at 1:07 PM
I wish there was better news than this headline ⚒️🧪
"Global carbon emissions from fossil fuels are projected to rise by 1.1% in 2025 - reaching a record high" (globalcarbonbudget.org/fossil-fuel-...)
+ Global Carbon Budget 2025 is out globalcarbonbudget.org/gcb-2025/
+ Paper doi.org/10.5194/essd...
"Global carbon emissions from fossil fuels are projected to rise by 1.1% in 2025 - reaching a record high" (globalcarbonbudget.org/fossil-fuel-...)
+ Global Carbon Budget 2025 is out globalcarbonbudget.org/gcb-2025/
+ Paper doi.org/10.5194/essd...
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‘Deathly silent’: two out of three corals in world heritage-listed Ningaloo reef have been killed, scientists confirm #Climate
‘Deathly silent’: two out of three corals in world heritage-listed Ningaloo reef have been killed, scientists confirm
One expert says he is ‘starting to visualise the point where all we have left of corals and reefs is memories’
www.theguardian.com
November 19, 2025 at 7:49 AM
‘Deathly silent’: two out of three corals in world heritage-listed Ningaloo reef have been killed, scientists confirm #Climate
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Speaking of Larry Summers.
Here's what he famously said about toxic waste and #climate breakdown.
What a di*k! 🤡
Quoted here by @annpettifor.bsky.social
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Here's what he famously said about toxic waste and #climate breakdown.
What a di*k! 🤡
Quoted here by @annpettifor.bsky.social
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November 18, 2025 at 2:17 PM
Speaking of Larry Summers.
Here's what he famously said about toxic waste and #climate breakdown.
What a di*k! 🤡
Quoted here by @annpettifor.bsky.social
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Here's what he famously said about toxic waste and #climate breakdown.
What a di*k! 🤡
Quoted here by @annpettifor.bsky.social
annpettifor.substack.com/p/nordhaus-r...
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Bhutan PM on leading the first carbon-negative nation: ‘The wellbeing of our people is at the centre of our agenda’ #Climate
Bhutan PM on leading the first carbon-negative nation: ‘The wellbeing of our people is at the centre of our agenda’
Exclusive: Tshering Tobgay says his country is doing ‘a lot more than our fair share’ on climate and west must step up ‘for the happiness of your people’
www.theguardian.com
November 18, 2025 at 3:39 PM
Bhutan PM on leading the first carbon-negative nation: ‘The wellbeing of our people is at the centre of our agenda’ #Climate
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New study suggests heatwaves will not revert back towards preindustrial conditions for at least 1,000 years after emissions target reached.
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‘Damned if we do but completely stuffed if we don’t’: heatwaves will worsen longer net zero is delayed
A new study suggests heatwaves will not revert back towards preindustrial conditions for at least 1,000 years after emissions target reached
www.theguardian.com
November 17, 2025 at 11:03 AM
New study suggests heatwaves will not revert back towards preindustrial conditions for at least 1,000 years after emissions target reached.
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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This Nepal village has survived for 1,000 years. Now recurring floods threaten its future #Climate
This Nepal village has survived for 1,000 years. Now recurring floods threaten its future
Til, the remotest of three villages in the Limi valley on the Tibetan border, was already wrestling with a dwindling population but a series of natural disasters has led many to consider where their future should be
www.theguardian.com
November 18, 2025 at 4:25 AM
This Nepal village has survived for 1,000 years. Now recurring floods threaten its future #Climate
Imagine liquidating a planet teeming with life in order to make obscenely rich sociopaths even richer.
November 12, 2025 at 2:42 AM
Imagine liquidating a planet teeming with life in order to make obscenely rich sociopaths even richer.
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From the BC🇨🇦 protesters trying to protect #OldGrowth forests, THANK YOU🤩
1200 protesters were arrested at Fairy Creek before it was logged.
NOW Protesters are in the Upper Walbran trying to save the last chunk of intact Old Growth on Vancouver Island.
#bcpoli #cdnpoli
1200 protesters were arrested at Fairy Creek before it was logged.
NOW Protesters are in the Upper Walbran trying to save the last chunk of intact Old Growth on Vancouver Island.
#bcpoli #cdnpoli
November 9, 2025 at 5:00 PM
From the BC🇨🇦 protesters trying to protect #OldGrowth forests, THANK YOU🤩
1200 protesters were arrested at Fairy Creek before it was logged.
NOW Protesters are in the Upper Walbran trying to save the last chunk of intact Old Growth on Vancouver Island.
#bcpoli #cdnpoli
1200 protesters were arrested at Fairy Creek before it was logged.
NOW Protesters are in the Upper Walbran trying to save the last chunk of intact Old Growth on Vancouver Island.
#bcpoli #cdnpoli
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Amazon lakes hit ‘unbearable’ hot-tub temperatures amid mass die-offs of pink river dolphins – study #Climate
Amazon lakes hit ‘unbearable’ hot-tub temperatures amid mass die-offs of pink river dolphins – study
Droughts and heatwaves causing water in some areas to reach 41C, killing fish and endangered dolphins, say researchers
www.theguardian.com
November 6, 2025 at 7:38 PM
Amazon lakes hit ‘unbearable’ hot-tub temperatures amid mass die-offs of pink river dolphins – study #Climate
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#BREAKING: According to new reporting by Coca-Cola, the company's plastic use has surged by over a BILLION pounds in just five years.
We need urgent, bold action to tackle this crisis, including a major shift to reusable packaging. https://oceana.ly/47HdVTn
We need urgent, bold action to tackle this crisis, including a major shift to reusable packaging. https://oceana.ly/47HdVTn
November 6, 2025 at 7:48 PM
#BREAKING: According to new reporting by Coca-Cola, the company's plastic use has surged by over a BILLION pounds in just five years.
We need urgent, bold action to tackle this crisis, including a major shift to reusable packaging. https://oceana.ly/47HdVTn
We need urgent, bold action to tackle this crisis, including a major shift to reusable packaging. https://oceana.ly/47HdVTn
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“'Climate and quality of life are not two separate concerns,' Mamdani told The Nation magazine in April. 'They are, in fact, one and the same.'”
What Zohran Mamdani’s Win Means for New York's Climate Politics
The mayor-elect’s approach reflects a view that is going mainstream: To succeed, climate policies may need to lose the label.
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November 5, 2025 at 5:43 PM
“'Climate and quality of life are not two separate concerns,' Mamdani told The Nation magazine in April. 'They are, in fact, one and the same.'”
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Dear people who don't live in the Chicago area,
Trump's thugs are practicing their violence on us before they apply it coast-to-coast. Get active now, while you can. Help us defeat the fascists and save our country.
Trump's thugs are practicing their violence on us before they apply it coast-to-coast. Get active now, while you can. Help us defeat the fascists and save our country.
Here’s a disturbing video from Evanston of a federal agent hitting a man on the ground as people yell that he can’t breathe.
November 1, 2025 at 12:47 AM
Dear people who don't live in the Chicago area,
Trump's thugs are practicing their violence on us before they apply it coast-to-coast. Get active now, while you can. Help us defeat the fascists and save our country.
Trump's thugs are practicing their violence on us before they apply it coast-to-coast. Get active now, while you can. Help us defeat the fascists and save our country.
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Marine wildlife fleeing to poles due to global heating as Australian oceans face ‘uncharted’ future #Climate
Marine wildlife fleeing to poles due to global heating as Australian oceans face ‘uncharted’ future
From 2040 onwards the average year for marine ecosystems is likely to be more extreme than the worst years experienced up until 2015, researchers say
www.theguardian.com
October 28, 2025 at 10:26 PM
Marine wildlife fleeing to poles due to global heating as Australian oceans face ‘uncharted’ future #Climate
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This is the news I've dreaded all my life, and it's here: Humanity has failed to avoid dangerous climate change.
We have now entered the overshoot era.
Our new goal is to prevent as many irreversible tipping points from taking hold as we can.
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
We have now entered the overshoot era.
Our new goal is to prevent as many irreversible tipping points from taking hold as we can.
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
‘Change course now’: humanity has missed 1.5C climate target, says UN head
Exclusive: ‘Devastating consequences’ now inevitable but emissions cuts still vital, says António Guterres in sole interview before Cop30
www.theguardian.com
October 28, 2025 at 4:30 AM
This is the news I've dreaded all my life, and it's here: Humanity has failed to avoid dangerous climate change.
We have now entered the overshoot era.
Our new goal is to prevent as many irreversible tipping points from taking hold as we can.
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
We have now entered the overshoot era.
Our new goal is to prevent as many irreversible tipping points from taking hold as we can.
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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BREAKING: economist discovers “second shift,” a concept coined by sociologists almost 50 years ago; gives it new, stupider, and less explicitly labor-oriented name
October 26, 2025 at 1:58 PM
BREAKING: economist discovers “second shift,” a concept coined by sociologists almost 50 years ago; gives it new, stupider, and less explicitly labor-oriented name
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"Denial is not an idiosyncracy or private pathology, but a certificate of membership in this particular society, a kind of credit card necessary for moving around in it and accessing its commodities and living without going nuts"
- Prof. Andreas Malm
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- Prof. Andreas Malm
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Andreas Malm's Public Lecture, October 10, 2025, Audio Only
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October 27, 2025 at 3:15 AM
"Denial is not an idiosyncracy or private pathology, but a certificate of membership in this particular society, a kind of credit card necessary for moving around in it and accessing its commodities and living without going nuts"
- Prof. Andreas Malm
youtu.be/fVYO7w6UHi8
- Prof. Andreas Malm
youtu.be/fVYO7w6UHi8
The 4th edition of Twenty Lessons in Environmental Sociology is available online from Oxford University Press now.
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October 25, 2025 at 1:16 PM
The 4th edition of Twenty Lessons in Environmental Sociology is available online from Oxford University Press now.
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The entire world was ready to reduce shipping emissions. Then Trump stepped in. #Climate
The entire world was ready to reduce shipping emissions. Then Trump stepped in.
After Trump threatened countries with tariffs and visa restrictions, a first-ever global carbon tax is left to an uncertain future.
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October 23, 2025 at 9:00 AM
The entire world was ready to reduce shipping emissions. Then Trump stepped in. #Climate
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Currently listening to economists and social psychologists discover sociology from 75 years ago (with all its faults). This is the indignity every sociologist lives every day.
September 26, 2025 at 2:10 PM
Currently listening to economists and social psychologists discover sociology from 75 years ago (with all its faults). This is the indignity every sociologist lives every day.
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U.S. policy changes mean Canadian children with cancer are losing access to clinical trials #Canada
As U.S. ends funding for brain tumour research group, Canadian doctors worry about impact on young patients
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As U.S. ends funding for brain tumour research group, Canadian doctors worry about impact on young patients
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U.S. policy changes mean Canadian children with cancer are losing access to clinical trials | CBC News
Canadian researchers say they've had to stop offering kids with cancer places in some clinical trials because of funding and policy changes in the United States.
www.cbc.ca
September 25, 2025 at 10:38 AM
U.S. policy changes mean Canadian children with cancer are losing access to clinical trials #Canada
As U.S. ends funding for brain tumour research group, Canadian doctors worry about impact on young patients
www.cbc.ca/news/health/...
As U.S. ends funding for brain tumour research group, Canadian doctors worry about impact on young patients
www.cbc.ca/news/health/...