meg berkobien
@megberkobien.bsky.social
PhD, (e)co-translation + collective translation | María Cristina Hall's co-translator (Catalan) | books redemmas
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10/ This increasing realisation is why climate scientists are so alarmed and why they say we are in an emergency situation.
"If damaging tipping cascades can occur and a global tipping point cannot be ruled out, then this is an existential threat to civilization"
#ClimateEmergency
"If damaging tipping cascades can occur and a global tipping point cannot be ruled out, then this is an existential threat to civilization"
#ClimateEmergency
Climate tipping points — too risky to bet against
The growing threat of abrupt and irreversible climate changes must compel political and economic action on emissions.
www.nature.com
February 25, 2025 at 6:18 PM
10/ This increasing realisation is why climate scientists are so alarmed and why they say we are in an emergency situation.
"If damaging tipping cascades can occur and a global tipping point cannot be ruled out, then this is an existential threat to civilization"
#ClimateEmergency
"If damaging tipping cascades can occur and a global tipping point cannot be ruled out, then this is an existential threat to civilization"
#ClimateEmergency
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🚨 New @therealnews.com
"We're done": Starbucks workers across prepare for indefinite national strike that will begin TOMORROW if Starbucks doesn't make serious movement at the bargaining table.
I spoke w/ Michelle Eisen of @sbworkersunited.org about the strike
therealnews.com/starbucks-is...
"We're done": Starbucks workers across prepare for indefinite national strike that will begin TOMORROW if Starbucks doesn't make serious movement at the bargaining table.
I spoke w/ Michelle Eisen of @sbworkersunited.org about the strike
therealnews.com/starbucks-is...
‘Starbucks is the largest labor violator in modern history’: Starbucks workers prepare for indefinite national strike
“We've been fighting for a very long time, and we're at the point now where we're done—and workers will go on strike by Thursday if this company does not come back with some new proposals and resolve ...
therealnews.com
November 12, 2025 at 9:39 PM
🚨 New @therealnews.com
"We're done": Starbucks workers across prepare for indefinite national strike that will begin TOMORROW if Starbucks doesn't make serious movement at the bargaining table.
I spoke w/ Michelle Eisen of @sbworkersunited.org about the strike
therealnews.com/starbucks-is...
"We're done": Starbucks workers across prepare for indefinite national strike that will begin TOMORROW if Starbucks doesn't make serious movement at the bargaining table.
I spoke w/ Michelle Eisen of @sbworkersunited.org about the strike
therealnews.com/starbucks-is...
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"65% of Americans say they “rarely” or “never” discuss global warming with family and friends'
#EndClimateSilence
Have a #climate conversation with the people around you.
climatecommunication.yale.edu/publications...
#EndClimateSilence
Have a #climate conversation with the people around you.
climatecommunication.yale.edu/publications...
October 23, 2025 at 4:25 AM
"65% of Americans say they “rarely” or “never” discuss global warming with family and friends'
#EndClimateSilence
Have a #climate conversation with the people around you.
climatecommunication.yale.edu/publications...
#EndClimateSilence
Have a #climate conversation with the people around you.
climatecommunication.yale.edu/publications...
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UNIONIZED STARBUCKS WORKERS ARE ON STRIKE AS OF THIS MORNING @sbworkersunited.org
Don't cross the picket line
Don't cross the picket line
🚨 New @therealnews.com
"We're done": Starbucks workers across prepare for indefinite national strike that will begin TOMORROW if Starbucks doesn't make serious movement at the bargaining table.
I spoke w/ Michelle Eisen of @sbworkersunited.org about the strike
therealnews.com/starbucks-is...
"We're done": Starbucks workers across prepare for indefinite national strike that will begin TOMORROW if Starbucks doesn't make serious movement at the bargaining table.
I spoke w/ Michelle Eisen of @sbworkersunited.org about the strike
therealnews.com/starbucks-is...
‘Starbucks is the largest labor violator in modern history’: Starbucks workers prepare for indefinite national strike
“We've been fighting for a very long time, and we're at the point now where we're done—and workers will go on strike by Thursday if this company does not come back with some new proposals and resolve ...
therealnews.com
November 13, 2025 at 1:51 PM
UNIONIZED STARBUCKS WORKERS ARE ON STRIKE AS OF THIS MORNING @sbworkersunited.org
Don't cross the picket line
Don't cross the picket line
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“The imperialists come anyway.”
This week the podcast is BACK and Adrienne speaks to
@sabrinafernandes.bsky.social about Brazilian ecological politics and Lula’s presidency as COP30 begins today in Belém.
Listen now to the full episode 👇
This week the podcast is BACK and Adrienne speaks to
@sabrinafernandes.bsky.social about Brazilian ecological politics and Lula’s presidency as COP30 begins today in Belém.
Listen now to the full episode 👇
Lula’s Dilemma at COP30
Adrienne speaks to Sabrina Fernandes about the complexities of Brazilian ecological politics at the start of the COP30 climate conference.
break-down.org
November 10, 2025 at 5:38 PM
“The imperialists come anyway.”
This week the podcast is BACK and Adrienne speaks to
@sabrinafernandes.bsky.social about Brazilian ecological politics and Lula’s presidency as COP30 begins today in Belém.
Listen now to the full episode 👇
This week the podcast is BACK and Adrienne speaks to
@sabrinafernandes.bsky.social about Brazilian ecological politics and Lula’s presidency as COP30 begins today in Belém.
Listen now to the full episode 👇
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Yes, this is correct. And the reason is because our capitalist classes have decided that it is not sufficiently profitable, so they're not going to do it.
We must understand this reality. Capital *cannot* be relied upon to address the climate crisis.
We must understand this reality. Capital *cannot* be relied upon to address the climate crisis.
November 10, 2025 at 4:13 PM
Yes, this is correct. And the reason is because our capitalist classes have decided that it is not sufficiently profitable, so they're not going to do it.
We must understand this reality. Capital *cannot* be relied upon to address the climate crisis.
We must understand this reality. Capital *cannot* be relied upon to address the climate crisis.
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Lest we forget as COP30 begins in the Amazon that just over a week ago tech behemoth Nvidia was selling AI for oil and gas expansion to Brazilian state-owned oil giant Petrobras....
Nvidia Flogged AI for Brazilian Oil and Gas on Eve of COP30
The tech giant was in Rio de Janeiro hawking AI software to fossil fuel firms just days before crucial climate crisis negotiations in the Amazon.
My reporting today @desmog.com
www.desmog.com/2025/11/07/n...
The tech giant was in Rio de Janeiro hawking AI software to fossil fuel firms just days before crucial climate crisis negotiations in the Amazon.
My reporting today @desmog.com
www.desmog.com/2025/11/07/n...
Nvidia Flogged AI for Brazilian Oil and Gas on Eve of COP30
As world leaders prepared to descend on the small city of Belém in the Brazilian Amazon for the COP30 climate summit, artificial intelligence (AI) chip-manufacturer Nvidia was instead peddling its ene...
www.desmog.com
November 10, 2025 at 10:51 AM
Lest we forget as COP30 begins in the Amazon that just over a week ago tech behemoth Nvidia was selling AI for oil and gas expansion to Brazilian state-owned oil giant Petrobras....
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And yet, two weeks ago the government of Brazil was the "master sponsor" of a major oil and gas conference in Rio, where Nvidia sold AI tools for fossil fuel expansion to Petrobras....
www.desmog.com/2025/11/07/n...
www.desmog.com/2025/11/07/n...
November 10, 2025 at 11:30 AM
And yet, two weeks ago the government of Brazil was the "master sponsor" of a major oil and gas conference in Rio, where Nvidia sold AI tools for fossil fuel expansion to Petrobras....
www.desmog.com/2025/11/07/n...
www.desmog.com/2025/11/07/n...
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Zohran calling his wife "hayati" after shouting out "Mama and Baba" and the immigrant cab drivers who make NYC run. Idk what to even say. This is a new era baby. The Muslims are HERE.
November 5, 2025 at 1:35 PM
Zohran calling his wife "hayati" after shouting out "Mama and Baba" and the immigrant cab drivers who make NYC run. Idk what to even say. This is a new era baby. The Muslims are HERE.
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NEW: Devastating imagery from Jamaica, before & after Category 5 Hurricane Melissa.
Black River — near total destruction.
Black River — near total destruction.
October 29, 2025 at 8:28 PM
NEW: Devastating imagery from Jamaica, before & after Category 5 Hurricane Melissa.
Black River — near total destruction.
Black River — near total destruction.
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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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"Planet has entered a ‘new reality’ as it hits its first climate tipping point"
media> www.cnn.com/2025/10/13/c...
science> www.nature.com/articles/d41... #Anthropocene
media> www.cnn.com/2025/10/13/c...
science> www.nature.com/articles/d41... #Anthropocene
The planet has entered a ‘new reality’ as it hits its first climate tipping point, report finds | CNN
The widespread death of coral reefs is the first in a series of catastrophic and potentially irreversible tipping points the world may hit, according to a landmark report produced by 160 scientists ac...
www.cnn.com
October 13, 2025 at 5:10 PM
"Planet has entered a ‘new reality’ as it hits its first climate tipping point"
media> www.cnn.com/2025/10/13/c...
science> www.nature.com/articles/d41... #Anthropocene
media> www.cnn.com/2025/10/13/c...
science> www.nature.com/articles/d41... #Anthropocene
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The ability to "be natural" in front of, let alone toward, a camera lens is a freakish artificial skill and the demand for it almost certainly has left scammers and sociopaths overrepresented in political leadership; probably not great that we've now organized everyday society around it too
It's a sign of how many people (and journalists) live inside a media-created alternate reality that skill in the style of televised public performance associated with Hollywood actors is considered equivalent to 'authenticity'
This is an obsession of mine - a huge pathology of the press is coverage suggesting that politicians who are less skilled performers are somehow less "authentic"
Me on Romney coverage in CJR: www.cjr.org/united_state...
Me on Hillary Clinton coverage in The Upshot:
www.nytimes.com/2015/10/02/u...
Me on Romney coverage in CJR: www.cjr.org/united_state...
Me on Hillary Clinton coverage in The Upshot:
www.nytimes.com/2015/10/02/u...
October 12, 2025 at 4:39 PM
The ability to "be natural" in front of, let alone toward, a camera lens is a freakish artificial skill and the demand for it almost certainly has left scammers and sociopaths overrepresented in political leadership; probably not great that we've now organized everyday society around it too
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Antarctica may have passed a climate tipping point of no return, scientists are warning, with mounting evidence that a sudden slump in sea ice formation since 2016 is linked to human-induced ocean warming.
Antarctica may have crossed a tipping point that leads to rising seas
Scientists are beginning to understand the sudden loss of sea ice in Antarctica – and there is growing evidence that it represents a permanent shift with potentially catastrophic consequences
www.newscientist.com
October 7, 2025 at 12:29 AM
Antarctica may have passed a climate tipping point of no return, scientists are warning, with mounting evidence that a sudden slump in sea ice formation since 2016 is linked to human-induced ocean warming.
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"Greening the global economy does not have to be done through unjust fuel extraction; societies can choose fairer paths to net-zero emissions." Perfectly put.
Love this glowing review of @triofrancos.bsky.social's EXTRACTION in @nature.com
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
Love this glowing review of @triofrancos.bsky.social's EXTRACTION in @nature.com
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
From fossil fuels to ‘green capitalism’: the dilemmas of a just energy transition
Greening the global economy does not have to be done through unjust fuel extraction; societies can choose fairer paths to net-zero emissions.
www.nature.com
October 6, 2025 at 9:58 PM
"Greening the global economy does not have to be done through unjust fuel extraction; societies can choose fairer paths to net-zero emissions." Perfectly put.
Love this glowing review of @triofrancos.bsky.social's EXTRACTION in @nature.com
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
Love this glowing review of @triofrancos.bsky.social's EXTRACTION in @nature.com
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
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Until people in the climate movement very publicly stop eating meat and flying, we're not going to seem trustworthy.
I will die on this hill.
I will die on this hill.
Meat is a blind spot for people who care about climate. When I used to have dinner with my colleague Wally Broecker, the climate scientist who coined the term “global warming”, he would always order a steak.
The climate movement’s biggest weakness
What the climate movement is getting dead wrong.
www.vox.com
October 4, 2025 at 5:19 PM
Until people in the climate movement very publicly stop eating meat and flying, we're not going to seem trustworthy.
I will die on this hill.
I will die on this hill.
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Reducing food waste is important, but it can be argued that 1️⃣ Livestock farming is the biggest form of food waste/loss - see www.vox.com/future-perfe... and, on X x.com/Unpop_Scienc... 2️⃣There's relatively too much focus on food waste: bsky.app/profile/geor...
September 29, 2025 at 10:12 AM
Reducing food waste is important, but it can be argued that 1️⃣ Livestock farming is the biggest form of food waste/loss - see www.vox.com/future-perfe... and, on X x.com/Unpop_Scienc... 2️⃣There's relatively too much focus on food waste: bsky.app/profile/geor...
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"When I told them I was a climatologist, they asked me what our summers will be like in 25 years. In a France at +2.7°C compared to the pre-industrial era, the scenario we are heading towards in 2050, heat records of up to 50°C will be possible; the summer we have just experienced will be the norm"
« À chaque fois, je voyais la gravité dans les yeux de mes interlocuteurs et ils me posaient la même question : comment fera-t-on ? C’est là tout le problème, j’ai été frappée par le décalage entre cette grande inquiétude et l’absence de cap politique pour y répondre. »
Valérie Masson-Delmote « Il y a un déni des risques climatiques, un déni de responsabilité »
l.reporterre.net
September 18, 2025 at 6:35 AM
"When I told them I was a climatologist, they asked me what our summers will be like in 25 years. In a France at +2.7°C compared to the pre-industrial era, the scenario we are heading towards in 2050, heat records of up to 50°C will be possible; the summer we have just experienced will be the norm"
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Greta Thunberg and Irish comedian and activist Tadhg Hickey sum it up in 28 seconds
September 20, 2025 at 10:32 AM
Greta Thunberg and Irish comedian and activist Tadhg Hickey sum it up in 28 seconds
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A new piece on extractive capitalism for @thetls.bsky.social, reviewing 4 new books, including @triofrancos.bsky.social's much-anticipated EXTRACTION and Partha Dasgupta's widely-
praised ON NATURAL CAPITAL
praised ON NATURAL CAPITAL
Paying Nature’s price
“What does it mean”, asks Thea Riofrancos in Extraction, “to defend people and the planet from extraction – when others frame this same extraction as
www.the-tls.com
September 18, 2025 at 7:26 AM
A new piece on extractive capitalism for @thetls.bsky.social, reviewing 4 new books, including @triofrancos.bsky.social's much-anticipated EXTRACTION and Partha Dasgupta's widely-
praised ON NATURAL CAPITAL
praised ON NATURAL CAPITAL
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"Climate pragmatism" in the UK; "climate realism" in the US: justifying the continuance of the fossil-fuel economy, either way.
We found “pragmatism” is used by MPs:
- to promote incremental rather than transformative change
- to defend fossil fuel companies
- to sound sensible and scientific
- to protect a fragile political consensus
- and to dismiss “extreme” calls for a more rapid climate transition
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- to promote incremental rather than transformative change
- to defend fossil fuel companies
- to sound sensible and scientific
- to protect a fragile political consensus
- and to dismiss “extreme” calls for a more rapid climate transition
3/
September 9, 2025 at 12:29 PM
"Climate pragmatism" in the UK; "climate realism" in the US: justifying the continuance of the fossil-fuel economy, either way.
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Men will build giant floating walls to prevent warm water from reaching ice shelves, and scatter microbeads onto sea ice to increase its reflectivity before just stopping the burning of fossil fuels
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-09...
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-09...
Polar 'geoengineering' won't fix climate warming, study finds
Proposed "geoengineering" projects designed to reduce the impacts of global warming in polar regions would be ineffective, extremely costly and environmentally dangerous, researchers have warned.
www.abc.net.au
September 9, 2025 at 10:38 AM
Men will build giant floating walls to prevent warm water from reaching ice shelves, and scatter microbeads onto sea ice to increase its reflectivity before just stopping the burning of fossil fuels
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-09...
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-09...
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deforestation *caused primarily by cows and soy for factory farmed animals* reduce rainfall in the amazon.
this is why meat is not just a moral issue but a political-ecological issue that reshapes out climate and environment and biodiversity in profound and irreversible ways.
this is why meat is not just a moral issue but a political-ecological issue that reshapes out climate and environment and biodiversity in profound and irreversible ways.
Deforestation is responsible for nearly 75% of dry season rainfall reduction in the Amazon rainforest since 1985, according to a study in Nature Communications. go.nature.com/3I2xPzr ⚒️ 🧪
September 9, 2025 at 1:20 AM
deforestation *caused primarily by cows and soy for factory farmed animals* reduce rainfall in the amazon.
this is why meat is not just a moral issue but a political-ecological issue that reshapes out climate and environment and biodiversity in profound and irreversible ways.
this is why meat is not just a moral issue but a political-ecological issue that reshapes out climate and environment and biodiversity in profound and irreversible ways.
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…these are same compressor stations through the lens of Sharon Wilson’s FLIR camera which reveals the otherwise invisible methane and VOC plumes pouring from them. Listen to her narration.
Can confirm we all felt nauseous with sore throats after just a few minutes here.
Can confirm we all felt nauseous with sore throats after just a few minutes here.
September 7, 2025 at 3:59 AM
…these are same compressor stations through the lens of Sharon Wilson’s FLIR camera which reveals the otherwise invisible methane and VOC plumes pouring from them. Listen to her narration.
Can confirm we all felt nauseous with sore throats after just a few minutes here.
Can confirm we all felt nauseous with sore throats after just a few minutes here.