Emanuela Paoletti
@manupaoletti.bsky.social
Interested in climate change, refugee protection, North Africa, and the Middle East. Formerly at the LSE, Oxford University, and the Potsdam Istitute for Climate Impact Research.
Reposted by Emanuela Paoletti
Beautiful meditation on this moment from @emorwee.bsky.social. "How am I supposed to keep writing about, and caring about, climate change and pollution and government capture by Big Oil, when the government is executing people in broad daylight?"
heated.world/pp/i-dont-kn...
heated.world/pp/i-dont-kn...
I don't know how to do this
But I'm going to keep doing it anyway.
heated.world
January 26, 2026 at 8:58 PM
Beautiful meditation on this moment from @emorwee.bsky.social. "How am I supposed to keep writing about, and caring about, climate change and pollution and government capture by Big Oil, when the government is executing people in broad daylight?"
heated.world/pp/i-dont-kn...
heated.world/pp/i-dont-kn...
Reposted by Emanuela Paoletti
As far as I can tell, @billmckibben.bsky.social is the only writer with any real reach who is discussing the liberatory potential of distributed solar power. I'd like that subject to get a lot more air time.
Solar as Solidarity
It's not just for saving planets any more
billmckibben.substack.com
January 15, 2026 at 9:41 PM
As far as I can tell, @billmckibben.bsky.social is the only writer with any real reach who is discussing the liberatory potential of distributed solar power. I'd like that subject to get a lot more air time.
Reposted by Emanuela Paoletti
Missed our conversation with Professor @timothysnyder.bsky.social? Watch now on my Substack, Assembly Notes! ⬇️
🔗: bit.ly/4qJVqWm
🔗: bit.ly/4qJVqWm
LIVE with Professor Tim Snyder
Missed our conversation? Watch it now!
bit.ly
January 12, 2026 at 11:49 PM
Missed our conversation with Professor @timothysnyder.bsky.social? Watch now on my Substack, Assembly Notes! ⬇️
🔗: bit.ly/4qJVqWm
🔗: bit.ly/4qJVqWm
The 20-point peace plan "wasn’t a step toward true peace; it was just a fig leaf for the unceasing effort to [...] erase the Palestinians as a meaningful political entity." Timely article on the need to pursue "true peace" by Stephen Walt @stephenwalt.bsky.social on foreignpolicy.com/2025/12/22/t...
Trump’s Fake Peace Deals Are Dangerous
Potemkin peace can be a threat all its own.
foreignpolicy.com
December 28, 2025 at 9:04 PM
The 20-point peace plan "wasn’t a step toward true peace; it was just a fig leaf for the unceasing effort to [...] erase the Palestinians as a meaningful political entity." Timely article on the need to pursue "true peace" by Stephen Walt @stephenwalt.bsky.social on foreignpolicy.com/2025/12/22/t...
On AI and water contamination by Emily Atkin @emorwee.bsky.social: open.substack.com/pub/heated/p...
AI’s water problem is worse than we thought
A new investigation reveals how Amazon is amplifying Oregon’s nitrate pollution crisis.
open.substack.com
November 25, 2025 at 11:45 PM
On AI and water contamination by Emily Atkin @emorwee.bsky.social: open.substack.com/pub/heated/p...
Amazing conversation on COP30 with @katharinehayhoe.com, @amywestervelt.bsky.social and @fisherdanar.bsky.social: cece.american.edu/copout-episo...
COPOut Episode 5: Early PostMortem on COP30 - Center for Environment, Community, & Equity (CECE)
In our fifth episode of the COPOut Podcast, Dr. Dana R. Fisher talks with two amazing climate communicators to unpack the significance of the outcome of the COP30 round of the climate negotiations. Tu...
cece.american.edu
November 24, 2025 at 9:24 PM
Amazing conversation on COP30 with @katharinehayhoe.com, @amywestervelt.bsky.social and @fisherdanar.bsky.social: cece.american.edu/copout-episo...
Waste in the capitalist system: "We need things consumed, burned up, worn out, replaced and discarded at an ever increasing rate" by Brett Christophers on the @lrb.co.uk www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Brett Christophers · Assume the worst: Where our waste goes
Just as Big Oil has repeatedly failed to deliver on pledges to begin decarbonising, so too the promises of plastics...
www.lrb.co.uk
November 23, 2025 at 8:03 PM
Waste in the capitalist system: "We need things consumed, burned up, worn out, replaced and discarded at an ever increasing rate" by Brett Christophers on the @lrb.co.uk www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Reposted by Emanuela Paoletti
All nations committed under the Paris Agreement to limit global warming to 1.5 degC for good reason. Instead many governments are beholden to the fossil fuel lobby and even subsidize fossil fuel use with your money. We’re now at 1.4 degC & emissions are rising not falling.
unfccc.int/process-and-...
unfccc.int/process-and-...
November 15, 2025 at 4:09 PM
All nations committed under the Paris Agreement to limit global warming to 1.5 degC for good reason. Instead many governments are beholden to the fossil fuel lobby and even subsidize fossil fuel use with your money. We’re now at 1.4 degC & emissions are rising not falling.
unfccc.int/process-and-...
unfccc.int/process-and-...
Reposted by Emanuela Paoletti
Even limiting global warming to between 1.6 - 1.8C would require far stronger policies to reduce fossil fuel emissions than those currently adopted by governments - which would allow the world to heat by at least 2.7°C, says PIK Director Johan Rockström at #COP30. www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Removing CO2 from atmosphere vital to avoid catastrophic tipping points, leading scientist says
10bn tonnes must be captured from the air every year to limit global heating to 1.7C, says Johan Rockström
www.theguardian.com
November 13, 2025 at 2:31 PM
Even limiting global warming to between 1.6 - 1.8C would require far stronger policies to reduce fossil fuel emissions than those currently adopted by governments - which would allow the world to heat by at least 2.7°C, says PIK Director Johan Rockström at #COP30. www.theguardian.com/environment/...
On the important role of banks in relation to climate change on the @theconversation.com: theconversation.com/how-banks-af...
How banks affect the environment and the role your money plays in it
As individuals, it’s easy to overlook the power we have when it comes to our finances.
theconversation.com
October 31, 2025 at 9:19 AM
On the important role of banks in relation to climate change on the @theconversation.com: theconversation.com/how-banks-af...
Visited today the Anzio BeachHead Museum, a testament to the couragious military operations and massive individual sacrifices that had to be made to win over Fascism and Nazism. At these perilious times, this museum is a must-watch. www.sbarcodianzio.it
October 26, 2025 at 10:25 PM
Visited today the Anzio BeachHead Museum, a testament to the couragious military operations and massive individual sacrifices that had to be made to win over Fascism and Nazism. At these perilious times, this museum is a must-watch. www.sbarcodianzio.it
"Artificial intelligence building boom strains already fragile power and water infrastructures in communities around the world." From the @nytimes.com: www.nytimes.com/2025/10/20/t...
From Mexico to Ireland, Fury Mounts Over a Global A.I. Frenzy
www.nytimes.com
October 21, 2025 at 7:47 PM
"Artificial intelligence building boom strains already fragile power and water infrastructures in communities around the world." From the @nytimes.com: www.nytimes.com/2025/10/20/t...
"I’m going to keep fighting as best I can, even knowing it’s not enough. Even not knowing exactly what to do." @climatehuman.bsky.social on: open.substack.com/pub/climateh...
On the Persecution of Peaceful Protestors
It's shocking and confusing, but at least I know what I stand for
open.substack.com
October 7, 2025 at 6:50 PM
"I’m going to keep fighting as best I can, even knowing it’s not enough. Even not knowing exactly what to do." @climatehuman.bsky.social on: open.substack.com/pub/climateh...
"Silicon Valley knows that war is good for business. And many of its powerful people want us to stop worrying about frivolities like ethics or ecology". Must read piece by Laleh Khalili on the @lrb.co.uk available here: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Laleh Khalili · Collective Property, Private Control: Defence Tech
The United States was born in war and has waged a war of some sort in every year of its existence. Silicon Valley knows...
www.lrb.co.uk
September 29, 2025 at 12:27 PM
"Silicon Valley knows that war is good for business. And many of its powerful people want us to stop worrying about frivolities like ethics or ecology". Must read piece by Laleh Khalili on the @lrb.co.uk available here: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Reposted by Emanuela Paoletti
Seven of nine planetary boundaries now breached – ocean acidification joins the danger zone," says PIK director Johan Rockström presenting the key findings of the Planetary Health Check 2025 today. #PlanetaryBoundaries
➡️ www.pik-potsdam.de/en/news/late...
➡️ www.pik-potsdam.de/en/news/late...
September 24, 2025 at 4:22 PM
Seven of nine planetary boundaries now breached – ocean acidification joins the danger zone," says PIK director Johan Rockström presenting the key findings of the Planetary Health Check 2025 today. #PlanetaryBoundaries
➡️ www.pik-potsdam.de/en/news/late...
➡️ www.pik-potsdam.de/en/news/late...
"Oil spills aren’t safe, smog isn’t healthy, and coal isn’t clean, no matter what Trump would like the world to believe." Great piece by @emorwee.bsky.social: open.substack.com/pub/heated/p...
Trump delivers dumbest climate speech of all time
The president's easily-debunked 10-minute climate tirade at the U.N. was so stupid and unoriginal, it was actually kind of funny.
open.substack.com
September 24, 2025 at 5:30 PM
"Oil spills aren’t safe, smog isn’t healthy, and coal isn’t clean, no matter what Trump would like the world to believe." Great piece by @emorwee.bsky.social: open.substack.com/pub/heated/p...
"As the planet races past targets that terrified so many into action not so long ago, [...] I would not abandon that secondary aspiration, that [...] we still owe one another something: a better, more just, more equitable future for all." www.nytimes.com/2025/09/16/m...
It Isn’t Just the U.S. The Whole World Has Soured on Climate Politics.
www.nytimes.com
September 18, 2025 at 8:32 PM
"As the planet races past targets that terrified so many into action not so long ago, [...] I would not abandon that secondary aspiration, that [...] we still owe one another something: a better, more just, more equitable future for all." www.nytimes.com/2025/09/16/m...
"This needed to happen. We could not have stayed on the road we were on. [...]. And now that we see the consequences, maybe we have a fighting chance, against this darkness." @rbreich.bsky.social Robert Reich at @levernews.com. Full interview available here: www.levernews.com/robert-reich...
Robert Reich Saw This Coming
After decades advising presidents, the former Secretary of Labor is sounding the alarm.
www.levernews.com
September 16, 2025 at 1:40 PM
"This needed to happen. We could not have stayed on the road we were on. [...]. And now that we see the consequences, maybe we have a fighting chance, against this darkness." @rbreich.bsky.social Robert Reich at @levernews.com. Full interview available here: www.levernews.com/robert-reich...
Reposted by Emanuela Paoletti
#Israel has committed genocide against Palestinians in #Gaza, theUN Independent International Commission of Inquiry on the Occupied Palestinian Territory & Israel said in a new report, urging all States to fulfil their legal obligations to end it.
➡️ bit.ly/4mjBAi2
➡️ bit.ly/4mjBAi2
September 16, 2025 at 6:59 AM
#Israel has committed genocide against Palestinians in #Gaza, theUN Independent International Commission of Inquiry on the Occupied Palestinian Territory & Israel said in a new report, urging all States to fulfil their legal obligations to end it.
➡️ bit.ly/4mjBAi2
➡️ bit.ly/4mjBAi2
Reposted by Emanuela Paoletti
New interview with Greta Thunberg in Barcelona yesterday by Middle East Eye.
The climate activist and arguably the leading humanitarian voice of our age is about to set sail along with dozens of ships from dozens of nations to bring urgent food and medical aid to millions of people in Gaza
The climate activist and arguably the leading humanitarian voice of our age is about to set sail along with dozens of ships from dozens of nations to bring urgent food and medical aid to millions of people in Gaza
August 29, 2025 at 12:07 PM
New interview with Greta Thunberg in Barcelona yesterday by Middle East Eye.
The climate activist and arguably the leading humanitarian voice of our age is about to set sail along with dozens of ships from dozens of nations to bring urgent food and medical aid to millions of people in Gaza
The climate activist and arguably the leading humanitarian voice of our age is about to set sail along with dozens of ships from dozens of nations to bring urgent food and medical aid to millions of people in Gaza
This article "Step back and take it in: the US is entering full authoritarian mode" by Jonathan Freedland is spot on: www.theguardian.com/commentisfre... www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Step back and take it in: the US is entering full authoritarian mode | Jonathan Freedland
Trump’s dictator-like behaviour is so brazen, so blatant, that paradoxically, we discount it. But now it’s time to call it what it is, says Guardian columnist Jonathan Freedland
www.theguardian.com
August 31, 2025 at 3:35 PM
This article "Step back and take it in: the US is entering full authoritarian mode" by Jonathan Freedland is spot on: www.theguardian.com/commentisfre... www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
"I want people who believe in decency, kindness, and fairness to fight with the same passion that assholes fight. And I just don't see it." Insightful conversation between Dan Stein and @volts.wtf David Roberts: www.volts.wtf/p/climate-ph...
Climate philanthropy in a time of Trump
I get frustrated at liberals' refusal to fight, and take it out on Giving Green's Dan Stein of all people.
www.volts.wtf
August 27, 2025 at 7:57 PM
"I want people who believe in decency, kindness, and fairness to fight with the same passion that assholes fight. And I just don't see it." Insightful conversation between Dan Stein and @volts.wtf David Roberts: www.volts.wtf/p/climate-ph...
"Plastic pollution talks collapse" www.nytimes.com/2025/08/15/c...
Plastic Pollution Talks Collapse as Oil States Oppose Tough Treaty
www.nytimes.com
August 16, 2025 at 6:06 AM
"Plastic pollution talks collapse" www.nytimes.com/2025/08/15/c...
"The status quo does not work". Inspiring conversation between @billmckibben.bsky.social and @emorwee.bsky.social available here: open.substack.com/pub/heated/p...
Where does the climate movement go from here?
In the face of Trump's climate assault, Bill McKibben proposes a sun-soaked path forward.
open.substack.com
August 15, 2025 at 1:08 PM
"The status quo does not work". Inspiring conversation between @billmckibben.bsky.social and @emorwee.bsky.social available here: open.substack.com/pub/heated/p...